Will Mr. Sanchez raise this issue of the Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine? I mean, as “China would be a key strategic partner for Spain and Europe” …

I agree. Unfortunately there is a lot of this bs here in this community, and it appears to come form always the same accounts.

Pikachu Spotted Fleeing Police Crackdowns During Turkey Protests – [Real news, not The Onion]

People are protesting in several major cities in Turkey, and Pikachu was at one in Antalya, according to local news outlets and social media. In the video, the person in the mascot suit hauls yellow nylon ass as fast as a pair of short, inflated legs can carry them—which is surprisingly fast, actually, considering how they’re keeping up with the people running all around them. The original video was captured by Ismail Koçeroğlu, a photojournalist at Akdeniz University in Antalya […]

And because nothing good is safe from AI—not even Protest Pikachu, arguably one of the purest pieces of iconography to come out of the resistance to the worldwide creep of authoritarianism yet—an AI-generated image of Pikachu rushing through the streets alongside protestors went viral shortly after Koçeroğlu’s video. Several local outlets have debunked the image, which is made to look like a high-resolution photojournalism shot from the ground, as being generated with AI.

Nah, the others must say thank you ;-)

In a not so funny note, egg prices in the U.S. are up 19,19% in February (month-on-month).

… China’s policy of heavily subsidizing key industries, which allows Chinese manufacturers to produce at a scale and cost that Western companies struggle to match.

Yes, but it’s not just the subsidies. An additional important factor in this context that the article doesn’t mention is the number of people in China who are forced into modern slavery. Therefore, a strong supply chain law is essential not only with regards to human rights (any trade agreement that does not include this crucial issue is useless imo), but also for a competition policy.

The article makes several good points how Germany and Europe have an advantage over China. But we need to get the human rights issue, too. That’s a major point.

Cuts and caps to benefits have always harmed people, not helped them into work

[…] While spending on disability-related support has gone up [in the UK] in recent years, the overall welfare bill has not. On top of that, the proportion of people who are not in work and who are claiming disability-related social security is actually about the same as it has been for the last 40 years. Indeed, the fact it is so low, given population ageing, could be read as good news […]

The best evidence we have right now suggests that making it more difficult to claim social security and placing more strenuous work-search requirements on claimants will simply push people with poor health (particularly mental ill-health) further away from the labour market […]

This is a difficult market. Last year we have seen job losses and even bankruptcies of several EV brands - particularly in China, not (yet?) in Europe and the U.S. - and we will see what happens in 2025 and after.

Friendly reminder that the European Parliament lifted restrictions on MEPs, allowing them to meet Chinese officials again (the restrictions were introduced two years ago over human rights abuses in East Turkistan, a region which is referred to as Xinjiang by the Chinese regime). Maybe it’s time to correct this?

Donald should not mess up with Denmark. They may not have the cards, but they have the eggs. Think of the eggs …

I intended to find a petition on this topic

Maybe this is close to what you are looking for?

Petition No 0729/2024 by N. W. (Austrian) on the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries

You may be interested in the EU OS for the public sector, Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment.

There is also the Open Source Strategy of Schleswig-Holstein, a northern German state, that has unveiled an ambitious plan to break free from proprietary software dependencies by ditching Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice.

I would say that it is absolutely irrelevant whether or not Putin agrees to anything, because he won’t stick to his word anyway.