Fed research finds: Trump tariffs implemented through November 2025 can explain the entirety of excess inflation in the core goods category relative to pre-pandemic inflation and contributed to a 0.8% increase in core personal consumption expenditure prices through February 2026
China has rapidly overtaken the U.S. in total scientific output - including top journals. Other middle- and low-income countries - India, Russia and Brazil - have also increased their research output, collectively matching the total production of high-income EU countries.
"Toch stond later die dag onweersproken in de kop van een artikel op de site van WNL:
„Mona Keijzer hekelt debat in Nederland: ‘Niemand heeft het over de misdaden die het regime in Iran pleegt tegen de eigen bevolking'”.
Aantoonbaar onjuist, maar wat maakt het ook uit."
Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon wouldn’t do any “climate change crap.” It’s still fortifying bases against rising seas and stronger storms.
In het licht van de VS komt China verstandig over. Maar stabiliteit Chinese stijl gaat vooral over controle. 👉 buff.ly/asrQ1bD
Russian forces struck Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight in a massive attack, killing 13.
meduza.io/en/news/2026...
EU climate chief warns there is ‘no workaround’ for high energy prices
Hoekstra: “The only way forward is more electrification, more nuclear, more solar, more wind, more battery capacity, more interconnectors in the European Union, and all of it with much more speed.”
More and more people are saying it.
www.ft.com/content/5102...
Europe v the US? There is much talk of a possible collapse of Nato but other big stuff in a gathering transatlantic civil war is invisible – or little noticed. France took a strategic step last week towards reducing its dependence on American tech giants. 1/
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China has rapidly increased its share of the global market in cars and machine tools, while countries like Germany and Japan have experienced a marked decline.
electric autonomy
Péter Magyar victory speech:
"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."
He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
“EUROPA, EUROPA”
People shouting for Europe after the election victory of the pro-European opposition in Hungary.
So beautiful. So emotional. So important.
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Poland’s economy is 42% larger than it would have been if the country had not joined the European Union, according to new analysis by the Polish Economic Institute.
"Brexit did deep damage to our economy, and the opportunities to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore”
Messcherpe analyse van Eva Peek over serie Thomas Erdbrink inzake Rusland. Per saldo dragen hij en regisseur Van Broekhoven met hun provinciaalse, al dan niet geveinsde, naieve blik objectief bij aan ondermijnen waarheidsvinding tgv Kremlin.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
en veel dank collega's @Bram Endedijk @esmeedirks.bsky.social @ignaces.bsky.social
Over die laatste vraag laten we ook @jvtk.bsky.social aan het woord. Hij zegt dat centrale banken een "enorm vermogen" hebben om met het rente-instrument de "relatieve keuzes" te maken, om de energietransitie vooruit te helpen. Veel dank Jens.
Centrale banken zitten in een niet erg benijdenswaardige positie: de inflatie loopt op door Trumps Iran-oorlog, maar is dat reden de rente (snel) te verhogen? En: hoe kunnen ze ons helpen minder afhankelijk te maken van fossiele energie? Ik was te gast in @nrc Vandaag www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
The Central England temperature record represents the longest series of monthly temperature observations in existence.
Recent temperatures there are over 1.5 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, and over 2 degrees above preindustrial values.
Chart: UK Met Office.
In the Observer today, pointing out that this whole thing is a nightmare for the Gulf not just in the short run but in the long run as well. You couldn't get a clearer demonstration that reliance on fossil fuels is ultimately too damaging for the global economy.
BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables.
The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition.
www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...
Dankzij nieuwe zonnepanelen en windmolens is er in de EU in de periode 2021-2023 zo’n 100 miljard euro bespaard op energierekeningen, zo berekende het Internationale Energie Agentschap, omdat de groothandelprijs van elektriciteit daardoor maar liefst 8 procent lager lag.
A Warsaw-based think tank monitored 114 accounts over three months, documenting eliminationist anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, the use of the French flag to promote Russian messaging, and calls for Polexit – amplified by the platform’s own recommendation tools.
Here's Spiegel
"Since the record year of 2022, exports to the People’s Republic have more than halved – from around 30 billion to 13.6 billion. In the same period, car imports from China rose by two-thirds to 7.4 billion euros."
@fbermingham.bsky.social www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...
My last estimates were before the May 2025 summit, so they didn't include the energy agreements (which add a about 0.1%) or a time-limited, capped youth mobility scheme (I went for 50,000 places, limited to 2 years - low - and 4 years - high estimate).
