They do have data centers in the EU.

The big problem with Big Tech is that nobody knows what they actually do with the data and what exactly the programs do. So it is very easy for the US to have back doors and use them to spy on European organizations. If they host the software, they also can shut them down. That is much much harder with self or locally hosted open source.

Die Studie vergleicht auch die Läden und da gibt es Preisunterschiede. Vorallem aber gibt es die speziellen Eigenmarken bei EDEKA und REWE nicht in jedem Laden. Das sind halt Genossenschaften und die Ladenbesitzer müssen nur eine gewisses Sortiment führen.

That is one of the areas Germany is improving in quickly. In the last two years the share of private residence and offices connected to the fiber network have gone up from 18.3% to 27.3%. With homes passed going up from 35.6% to 52.8%.

Eastern EU members for the most part. They are still relatively poor and thanks to EU help their economies are growing.Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and so forth are catching up with Western Europe.

That would be hard on the American tax payer.

There is no “it is” in my statement above. Changes the meaning quite a bit.

It is all financed by donations so they do not have a massive crew working on it. Also the entire thing is pretty much hand built. Obviously they use modern cranes and similar tools, but nearly nothing is off the shelf. In many ways it is quite similar to the construction of the gothic cathedrals.

NATO occupation and the Taliban are not recognized by anybody but Russia.

The ICC is global.

Green countries accept it. So the Americas besides the US, Europe and a good chunk of Africa.

Das dürfte eher daran liegen, dass du bei EDEKA einkaufst. Die Discounter haben mittlerweile vegane Eigenmarken und die sind entsprechend günstiger. EDEKA hat das weniger.

Die Türkei ist natürlich als NATO Partner ein Verbündeter, aber Russland und der Iran eher nicht.

In this case not being the US is quite a nice compliment.

Yes and it happens all the time.

Hinzu kommt, dass E-Autos von deutschen Herstellern gefragt sind. Das zeigt der Electric Vehicle Index (EVI). Neben China profitiert kaum ein Land so stark vom Elektroauto wie Deutschland und seine Autohersteller und Zulieferer.

Deutschland geht es noch relativ gut. Wirklich massiv am Leiden sind die Italiener. Stellantis denen FIAT gehört hatte letztes Jahr einen 37% einbruch bei in Italien produzierten Autos.

Dazu schau dir auch mal die Amerikaner an. Von 27% auf 10% ist wirklich krass.

Everybody does, but it really depends on how bad you fumble and if you can course correct. Right now the two biggest competitiors the US and China both have mass surveillance for example. So even if it happens, the EU would just fall to their level. Still the goal should be to be better then the rest. Not by putting them down, but by improving the EU.

Yes they want to keep the ban as is.

Das Ministerium ist neu und es sind Beamte. Da dauert soetwas.

The idea is to force car makers to sell more EVs. So the EU has put up fleet emission targets for car makers. They are currently so low, that you need to have zero emissions vehicles as part of the fleet, as hybrids do not cut it. However the EU allows for trading of credits, which allow car makers with lower fleet emissions to sell credits to car makers with higher emissions.

The key part is, that you can track EU EV sales fairly well, by running some math on how many EVs are needed to meet those fleet targets. So that law is actually working. The other part is the 2035 combustion engine phase out.

The idea is to have a more unified EU wide financial market with an EU wide financial oversight authority. Investors generally want a strong market oversight, as it makes sure that the companies are not lying to them.