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  • Contrary to their politicians, EU citizens support migration including asylum seekers' right to work, study finds

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  • Doesn't it make more sense for people to have the option to move ....

    Certainly. The most important outcome of this study imho is that there is a significant gap between the public/political debate and the peoples' sentiment.

  • OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

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  • Yes. We need human responsibility for everything what AI does. It's not the technology that harms but human beings and those who profit from it.

  • France, Germany, Poland facing ‘permanent’ Russian disinformation attacks, EU warns

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  • German Eurofighters intercept Russian spy jet

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  • US B-52 Bombers fly close to Russia’s borders escorted by German, Spanish, and Polish fighter jets --- (Archived link)

    [...] This deployment is a routine yet significant demonstration of NATO’s capability to operate seamlessly and maintain stability in the Baltic Sea region.

    During the mission, the bombers flew close to Russian territory in Kaliningrad, circling over Lithuania and traversing Dutch, German, and Polish airspace. [...] These sorties serve as a reminder of NATO’s resolve and readiness to respond to potential threats in the region.

  • German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

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  • You wouldn't trust the Chinese supplier (or any supplier). You'd go to the bauxite shipment company and let them register with the network, you'd send independent auditors to their premises, very much as we do it with ibdependent audits nowadays.

    We do need to physically access the premises across the supply chain to verify that 'on-chain personas' reflect their 'real' identities. But no single authority can control the data, we can be quite sure that all transfers of ownership across the supply chain have been authorized by their controllers. Compared to centralized systems, the blockchain provides us a much higher level of transparency and certainty over the fidelity of the information.

  • Funding of political parties in the EU: Populist, far-right and far-left political parties receive a quarter of all the private money, while the donors remain widely unknown

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  • The report has two parts:

    You need to register for reading the articles (but don't need to pay). If you don't want to register, you can use 12ft.io (the archive doesn't appear to eliminate the registration).

    In addition, you see a list of reports by media outlets from across Europe in multiple languages.

  • German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

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  • there's no way tovtrack where resources, material, items come from, who made them

    Independent audits are done -they are very common in many industry for a variety of reasons- and they work if done properly.

    We could even track the provenance of each material through a trustless system like a blockchain to guarantuee a high level of credibility and transparency, just to name a relatively new technology. This is done already.

  • Greens ‘will not back von der Leyen’ for re-election if she does deal with far right

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  • Russian firms pivot to crypto In global trade with their Chinese counterparts as sanctions take a hit

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  • This is a myth. It's just a good way to transfer money fast and at very low cost. If you want to do illegal stuff and/or try to hide your money trail, you wouldn't use a public ledger.

  • Russia: Loss of state-owned energy giant Gazprom, the first in decades, shows the Kremlin's struggle to fill EU gas sales gap with China

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  • This week, the Kremlin issued a decree to halt Gazprom dividends this year. A strange move if it 'was expected to begin with', especially if we cpnsider that the Kremlin relies heavily on Gazprom to fuel its war machine.

    And the alternative markets in Asia may or may not come for Russia's future, but they don't come anytime soon as Russia simply lacks the infrastructure to these destinations. According to an Analysis by the Atlantic Council, building the pipelines would cost USD 100 billion, and you can't build them overnight. That takes a very long time, time Moscow doesn't seem to have.

    So call it a loss or whatever you want, but Gazprom is in big trouble, and so is the Kremlin.

  • Estonia says Russia removed navigation buoys on border river

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  • China will reportedly install cameras with a facial recognition system in Hungary

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  • For the Chinese dissidents it could be bad, maybe also for the Hungarians in the long run. Orban risks the country's status in Nato and in the EU (if the EU blocks again the funds for Hungary as they did not long ago, it could also be harmful for Orban&friends, well, yeah ...).

  • Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says

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  • Forced labour in Chinese prisons isn't limited to Xinjiang, nor to the car industry. A lot products we use in Europe and North America and elsewhere around the globe are made by Chinese prisoners forced to work under catastrophic conditions.

    There is strong evidence for this provided by many independent sources, among them a documentary by Arte (a French-German media outlet). If interested:

    Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner -- (documentary, 95 min.)

    A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.

    (And, yes, prison labour exists also in the U.S., and it is as evil, but this doesn't make the autocratic Chinese government any better.)

  • Prime Minister of Estonia: NATO troops training in Ukraine will not lead to an escalation of war

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  • As long as Russia hasn't left Ukraine, there is no such thing as security for Europe.

  • The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media

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  • This is maybe a good idea. What would an emoji analysis tell us about a network? 😃

  • We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry, European researchers say

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  • China wouldn't agree with your view I guess.

  • European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments

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  • I don't like the term 'gigafactory' either, it's just that I didn't want to change the original version ... (but I altered the title now :-))

  • Polish judge seeks political asylum in Belarus

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  • Bugging equipment found in room where Polish government was to meet

    Bugging devices were found in a room where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was scheduled to meet with his Cabinet on Tuesday, an official said.

    The Cabinet ministers were meeting in Katowice, a southwestern Polish city where Tusk was attending an economic conference.

    Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesperson for the head of Poland’s secret services, said a routine security check uncovered equipment that could be used for recording or eavesdropping.

    He wrote on social media on Tuesday morning that “the State Protection Service, in cooperation with the Internal Security Agency, detected and dismantled devices that could be used for eavesdropping in the room where the meeting of the Council of Ministers is to be held today in Katowice.”

    “The services are conducting further activities in this matter,” he added.

    The Cabinet traditionally holds a weekly meeting in Warsaw but exceptionally held it in Katowice due to the European Economic Congress taking place there, at which European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen delivered a speech.

    Tusk and the government ministers went to Katowice on Tuesday morning by train.

  • China's Xi Jinping in Paris: “It’s a slap in the face that Emmanuel Macron is giving us,” say the Uighurs of France

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  • French lawmakers officially recognise China’s treatment of Uyghurs as ‘genocide’ --- (2022)

    France's parliament on Thursday denounced a "genocide" by China against its Uyghur Muslim population [...] The non-binding resolution, adopted with 169 votes in favour and just one against [...] reads that the National Assembly "officially recognises the violence perpetrated by the People's Republic of China against the Uyghurs as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide".

    It also calls on the French government to undertake "the necessary measures within the international community and in its foreign policy towards the People's Republic of China" to protect the minority group in the Xinjiang region.