"Lucy Easthope, a professor risk and hazard at the University of Durham, says the EU's plan is borrowed directly from Australia, and the experiences of those living in regional communities prone to bushfires or flooding."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/europeans-told-to-pack-survival-kits-for-72-hours/105176232
#EUpol
#AusPol
#preparedness
Wisdom in the comments here...
"From a European perspective, it really looks like only one-third of this phrase “allied western democracies” applies to the US any more. We need to disentangle ourselves from every form of reliance on the USA, as fast as we can."
Remember when the right wing loonies in #US were so loud about #FEMA camps?
They are so freaking silent now.
PS. #UK tried doing this with #Rwanda and #Denmark has done this for years, #Sweden wants to do it too but hasn't been able to get it done.
vice.com/en/article/denmark-de…
#Fascism is spreading but people seem to have short memory and selective outrage.
Do not travel to Germany.
Reason number 1 why you should not travel to the Germany.
"It is also obvious that a government that is desperately seeking to put flesh on the bones of its growth policy needs to recognise that its economic interests also require the abandonment of those red lines about not rejoining the customs union and single market."
@kardinal691 #RT is claiming #Sumy was a military base.
Other Russian propagandists on social media are claiming that Ukraine killed a bunch of people in Sumy as a false flag op.
"While Europe indeed sells more goods to Americans, the U.S. in turn enjoys a surplus when it comes to services. Overall, the €1.3 trillion trade relationship is off by only some €50 billion. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week revived the idea of scrapping all industrial #tariffs — in a “zero-for-zero” deal — on a mutual basis."
Interessant wie wie nen #Rechtsanwalt und wie @tagesschau das gleiche #EuGH -Urteil werten!
Yikes. A great way to cut carbon emissions though.
‘For the US economy, much is at stake, with the inbound travel market a major revenue-earner worth $155 billion in overseas visitor expenditure, and with millions of Americans employed in the tourism industry.
‘In 2024, before the Trump administration took office and introduced its extreme version of enhanced vetting, more than 710,000 Australians visited the US, a nearly 17 per cent increase on the previous year.
‘Now the giant French hotel multinational Accor has warned that bookings from Europe to the US for this northern summer’s high season are down 25 per cent. Airlines such as the UK-based Virgin Atlantic are also sounding the alarm to investors.
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‘Extraordinarily, in the past week, experts, via the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, have been recommending that foreign travellers at least delete “anything you wouldn’t want someone to read or see from your device before visiting the US”.’
Did a little punching up of my intro paragraphs.
"Donald Trump, on the other hand, showed up to the free market drunk, punched congress’s girlfriend in the tits, threw some gang signs, grabbed the wheel of the steamroller of American enterprise, and started shouting “YOLO!” while doing donuts in your stepmom’s flowerbeds. Steamroller donuts, each one cheered on more enthusiastically than the last by a cavalcade of botoxed ghouls from Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and the entire consortium of Tenet Media connected podcasts caught red handed taking millions of dollars from Russian intelligence less than a year ago. It’s a trajectory of governance that's unrecognizable to the American electorate, though I have a bad feeling that anyone who lived through the rise of a populist strongman like Robert Mugabe, Victor Orban, or Hugo Chavez would feel the shock of recognition.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/how-to-insider-trade-and-influence
"A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU over forging a new economic deal with the US, according to research published this weekend."
the Russian crypto scammers at #DWFLabs are helping make sure Donald Trump's new stablecoin #USD1 can easily be laundered through various other stablecoins and spread throughout the cryptoverse.
CEO of DWF Labs was formerly CEO of Huobi #Russia back when they were helping Russian banks avoid #sanctions.
Europeans, for some reason, don't seem to want to spend money in the US at the moment.
"The number of European travellers visiting the US has fallen sharply as political and economic tension and fears of a hostile border under President Donald Trump threaten the world’s most lucrative air routes."
https://www.ft.com/content/6dc16a54-8de1-4f3b-8409-ecb566118127
"The rest of the world is ready to bypass the US’s chaos and unpredictability – it just needs Europe to be the alternative."
"France could recognise Palestinian state ‘in June’, says Emmanuel Macron"
The #Riigikogu (Estonian parliament) is set to vote on the final reading of a bill which, if passed, would allow the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) to use force in maritime security, including the right to sink a civilian vessel if deemed a threat. #eupol
US voters have made sure that their country moves fast and breaks things.
"The European Central Bank and all other central banks must therefore set their key interest rates in an environment that could turn out to be a mirage in a few weeks."
Trump’s Mar a Lago Accord is DOA.
David Henig, from the European Centre of International Political Economy: "I'm not sure there's enough skill and analytical capacity in the current White House to pull this [currency accord] off."
Former chief economist at DFAT,Jenny Gordon: "Trump's treatment of allies will hardly provide reassurance that complying with such an accord will buy stability. Even if quite a few countries do comply, it will not solve the US deficit problem."
Lord Daniel Hannan, president of the Initiative for Free Trade and a member of the UK House of Lords: "It's not possible to simultaneously to tackle the deficit problem and to keep a devalued US dollar as the world's currency…countries around the world wouldn't agree to things that weren't in their economic interest because the US wanted them to.
"The people who are claiming that there is some clever nine-dimensional chess going on here are deluding themselves because they don't want to face up to the banal reality that this is a needless policy that will impoverish people."
Japan's former top currency diplomat, Naoyuki Shinohara: ‘…any US attempt to secure a coordinated depreciation of the US dollar through a 1985 Plaza Accord-type deal likely wouldn't work, because it would require the consent of China and Europe.’
