“It’s not the corporate interests, but the pure ideological activists who believe that #climate change is a hoax, who believe that this was about transferring wealth and driving socialism and destroying renewable energy and promoting left-wing ideology.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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US blackmails the world against what they call "European-led neocolonial export of global climate regulations".
The anti-climate thughs are back in town.
#climate #COP30 #shipping
Welcome to the age of stupid:
E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
The fascinating fossil fuel Norwegian wicked problem: politics, #geopolitics & #climate
#Norway #netzero
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Like everything else, Trump is pushing progress a couple of generations back. Hopes are the the comeback and rebound will be quicker than expected.
Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump
#environment #climate #EPA
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/c...
Have @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and its @governor.ca.gov team found the soft spot of Trump's social media dominance?
Trolling back the troller-in-chief might actually work to energise the Democrats base and the Never Trump
#socialmedia
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Motherfucking wind farms…
...hubiera podido responder golpe a golpe a semejante bola negocial, y no creo que la COM tuviera esta capacidad. Un poco un 'chicken game' en el cual las teníamos todas para ser los primeros a poner el freno.
Pasaría página con este 15% y pensaría a cómo hacer para que no se repita más
Quizás te he leído mal, pero si, en esto coincidimos. Por lo que he leído, las múltiples reuniones que los equipos de las dos partes han mantenido desde Abril, han dejado claro que los EE.UU. chantajeaban y mezclaban aspectos no comerciales (seguridad, DSA, AI Act, etc..). Sólo un actor unitario...
Aquí el FT lo relata muy bien, la batalla no se perdió el 27 de Julio sino en Abril cuando, tácitamente, se consensuó no ir a por una 'trade war'. Y no lo decidió la Comisión por si sola.
www.ft.com/content/85d5...
Creo que la Comisaria quiera decir otra cosa. El papel de la Comisión depende, en la política comercial, de un mandato, más o menos flexible, de los EE.MM. Con la fragmentación de intereses nacionales e industriales de la UE en relación a la postura de Trump, la Comisión puede solo quedar mal.
If it was only a matter of market power. This has been the first truly important geoeconomic negotiation the EU has experienced so far. Imagine the (un)veiled threats made by the US. That said, I'll be waiting for the 'details' of the agreement, esp. the regulatory ones. That's what scares me.
This seems to me a fairly good account of how the EU-US negotiation has folded out since April.
Pick the side you want to blame, the path not taken back in April or anything could have leveraged EU bargaining stance.
My (sad) take: not much the EU could have done better
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A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
(with the tacit cooperation of social media platforms)
#disinofmtaion #generativeAI
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...
Isn't this a not so subtle tactic to add 'issues' to the grievances for watering down EU DSA and AI Acts within the framework of the trade 'negotiation' (blackmailing) between the US and the EU. Particularly Meta has so unabashedly embraced Trump's spearheading support against EU regulation
As long as the Kremilin willl bankroll the region with lavish subsidies, un uprising is unlikely.
Hopefully, the Kremlin will be soon unable to do so, unless it lets its grip on Ukrane
Once Russia’s Most Volatile Region, Chechnya Is Bracing for Succession www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/w...
China uncompromising on all dossiers, asking the #EU to mind their business regarding support to Russia, using ears earths export ban as a bargaining tool.
If it wasn't for the climate, there would be little difference with Trump's US.
#dragonbear
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/b...
But stories of passion, followed by hateful drama and culminating in coming-back-together happy ending sell more than articulated compromises slowly emerging. @politico.eu
Trump Is Winning the Race to the Bottom
(spoiler: Americans have become highly attentive to threat, risk-averse and self-doubting about the national project. Their competitive advantage of high intellectual dynamism is dwindling)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
EU Big tech& digital independence?
Yes, but how?
Protectionism? Subsidies?
Is it possible to recover the US first mover advantage?
Many burning questions
#bigtech
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Frosty meeting expected on Thursday.
How asymmetrical is the EU- China relationship?
How much can geopolitics and economic be decoupled?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
Unnecessarily giving in to #Trump sketchy foreign policy.
The EU trumpist brigade is undermining the EU.
@nathalietocci.bsky.social , I would have also mentioned the nationalist left in some countries doing the same thing (from Fico to M5S, BSW and so on)
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Crises exist even if you ignore them.
"The truly “ideological” decision is to think that the pressures on our planet and our public finances can be deferred in favour of easier topics and smaller challenges."
#climate #netzeo
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And yet, in Europe, we're still complaining that moving to a complete shift towards an #EV industrial model will wreck the economy. #BYD #transitions
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...
Catherine de Vries, una de las más brillantes intelectuales europeas en este momento, lo ha dejado muy claro.
En cambio, los estadistas europeos, pasivamente sometidos a cálculos electorales nacionales (y estadounidenses).
Muy escasa pedagogía sobre las opciones.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Obama on society: "They are like ocean liners: you turn the wheel slowly, and the big ship pivots. Sometimes the task of government is to make incremental improvements or to try to steer the ocean liner two degrees so that, ten years from now, suddenly we’re in a very different place than we were."
Mutual loathe
The U.S. Right Loathes the E.U. How Are They Going to Negotiate Trade?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/w...
The geopolitical pendulum is swinging back to something more akin to the Congress of Vienna than the Yalta conference: the return of 'spheres of influence' (which is, historically, a lull of harmony before the quest for hegemony)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u...
@enricjuliana.bsky.social