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Interesting is also the mistranslation of "Dame", a lady from a wealthy family, as 'princess'. This is a governor's wife, not a princess.

Such projects are EU funded but in fact implemented through national or regional programmes agreed by the regional authorities... So it's usually at that level that favouritism or …

Even the concrete and steel houses often start with wood framing of some sort and end with wood as a structural part of any ceilings and roofs. Not to mention stairs, room structur…

Few buildings in Europe are today solely made from wood, but nearly every building will be part wood. From the frame on which walls and floors are built up with other materials up …

I guess you miss the selling point(s) as you see the phone only as its final product and the direct benefits to you. That has never been the ambition. Here's why I bought Fairphone…

EU legislation generally sets a maximum, but then you also have to prove proportionality to determine the actual amount (damage done + fine). Any such amount will certainly get cha…

I'm sorry that you have such an emotional reaction about a company being threatened with a fine (not even penalised yet) for harmful behaviour which they could immediately choose t…

The EU has its own subsidy programmes as well but it is a lot more complex. You need 27 governments to agree to make something happen, from 400.000 people Malta to 80.000.000 milli…

Yes but Spotify gets only 70% of that cut while apple gets 100%. Without the apple tax Spotify might be able to either go down in price or increase quality/breadth/payouts to creat…

You might enjoy this as well, similar big picture and fascinating, but a bit more scientific and focused on the human element. > The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Beca…

Why would they do that? U.S. military vessels were already attacked so they need no further casus belli if they wanted war. On the contrary Huthis have announced that they intend t…

Nothing illogical, Russia had been limiting supply due to supposed technical reasons for months before, with a clear intention to empty European/German reserves. Look at the charts…

You should probably put this in quotes as OOP is disseminating russian propaganda.

Sorry but you seem to be repeating russian war propaganda. The U.S. sabotaging north stream makes zero sense and Russia was already arbitrarily and randomly limiting supply through…

Counterexample: If a set of IPs consistently and intentionally run DDoS to shut down small sites or e.g. newspapers, should the government not intervene? If they cannot stop, say, …

You would not filter based on the delivery man but based on the sender. If you know someone sends bombs or drugs in the mail but you cannot stop them initiating parcels, you would …

How is that related? It also happened a week ago, while this is new. Houthis cause as much havoc as they want, presumably to someday get a decent deal at the negotiating table.

I guess it's more that it is difficult to ensure freedoms when people stay 'voluntarily' and don't speak out. There are similar stories about Chinese clothing factories based in It…

It's a member of the European parliament asking a question to the European Commission (the EU executive). The reply is linked at the top of the page, but note that both question an…

Fully agree, this is unscientific nonsense trying to model an incredibly hard to model thing. People seem to just Google papers that support their worldview without even bothering …

I feel like many people (men) here seem to live in a different planet than me. Women care so much less about wealth and looks than men think. Be a nice person, caring, reasonably f…

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...

To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publicati…

I use AdGuard home as part of my HomeAssistant setup and have had no problem at all. Only thing is to turn off the enforced safe search as that quite reduces results.

All depends on the setup. Pizza delivery run by the individual small shop has worked for 50+ years; they pay two cooks and two drivers and a waiter and feed hundreds of people a ni…