Great news. However, am I the only one annoyed by the phrase "winning an election", used three times in the article? I note that the author is from the UK and that phrase does make sense in their system. However, in most of Europe is it not weird or even uncommon that the party that gets the most votes and seats de facto lose the election and end up in opposition; as it's all about getting more than 50% of the parliament. Getting the most votes and seats is nothing more than nice statistics, if you can't get more than 50% behind you.

A more accurate text had been "FPÖ, despite getting the most seats in the parliament, are in the end in fact losers"

It is well known that the far-right have always opposed anti-semitism /s

This conference is clearly about "combatting" something else. That they refer to it as "combatting anti-semitism" is just disgusting.

1. Burn all bridges
2. Demand assistance
3. ???
4. Win

And that kids ishlw you play 7D chess

True, it is very unlikely that this will directly lead to anything. However, it might at least force Labour to clarify where they stand. Tories and Reform are against rejoining. LibDem, SNP, Plaid, and Greens are for rejoining. And Labour are officially against rejoning... right now, but it was still definitely a mistake to leave in the first place and they would undo it if they could. This debate would hopefully start Labour on a path to step down from the fence.

They probably should explain to the Murican government that we in Europe have something called freedom of speech and that governments, and especially foreign governments, do not have the right to censor specific words that happen to offend them.

One thing to add is that she is basically right of the far-right. Before the latest EU election were German AfD kicked out of ID (now PfE), for being too extreme. Hence, after the election did AfD gather other parties that were too crazy for ID/PfE and created ESN. Șoșoacă and her SOS Romania originally wished to join ESN, but wasn't allowed to join due to objections from other parties. Basically, you have centre right in EPP, right wing in ECR, far-right in PfE, far-far-right in ESN, and one step further is Șoșoacă.

To put "(future EU member)" on Canada but nothing on Turkey, who despite negotiations currently being frozen still are a member of both the EUCU and the CoE, is definitely a choice. I'm not a fan of Erdogan and personally do not think that Turkey, nor Canada for that matter, should ever become EU members. However, given the point of the group does it seem pointless to make political statements that are completely off topic. Turkey is closer, not just geographically, to the EU than what Canada is; whether we like it or not.

Fairphone. I've yet to try one myself, but I've seen a lot of good reviews

Let's not just blame the orange one and the couch fucker. You also had their cadre of far-right "journalists" who took a break from their normal conspiracies to get into a fight about Zelensky's choice of clothes.

Inte helt orimligt att fråga vänner och allierade om några ägg. Tråkigt för USA att de varken har vänner eller allierade

That's obviously not good. However, there are of course levels in hell and "hard-right" here seems to include some, but not all, ECR parties, plus all of PfE, and all of ESN. I'm not a fan pf any of them, but some of the parties behind the numbers are a far bigger worry than others; as they differ a lot on crucial topics.

An alternative title had been "Trump accepts millions in bribes". $75mn of those from one fraudster who seem to have bought himself a "Get Out of Jail Free card" https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/business/crypto-mogul-trump-coins-civil-fraud-charges/index.html

In short, geography. The EU is more than just an economic union and is just growing tighter. Hence, were Canada an EU member would they need to fund projects that they would have limited benefit from and follow rules that do not make sense to them. Meanwhile the EU would more than double its external border, which would make smuggling even easier, and with limited benefits as the real hindrance to trade is the distance. The only solution would be to give Canada so many exceptions that they would barely even be members.

I'm fully for trade deals and cooperation on areas of common interest. But a full membership would not benefit either side.

What was concerning about Proton? Genuine question, as I today tried out Proton but haven't settled for it yet so'd want to know if there's a reason to move to pick something else instead.

Okay, thank you for clarifying, very helpful

Not disagreeing with anything OP said, but one downside with DeepL is that it is not great as a lexicon. Basically, if you want to translate one single word instead of a longer text, as can be useful for example if you run into a word you do not know in a language which you otherwise have some grasp of. However, Google is neither good at this. One site/app/company that is good at it though is the French site/app/company Reverso. Hence, if you based on this post try DeepL and notice that it does not really suit your needs, like happened to me, so is that no need to go back to Google.

50 years would be 2075, assuming that they don't run out of money or lose interest by then. The World Cup in 2034 is slightly before 2075. Hence, is the plan to host it in a construction site or doing it digitally in their lovely digital model of the stadium?

Thank you, I'll read up on the issue there

The article is about boycotts in Sweden. Two examples are given, but only one from Sweden. The first link is Danish.

It is correct and great that people in Sweden boycott the USA, but take the details with a pinch of salt as the author seems very unfamiliar with Sweden.

I was really happy a few weeks ago when I went through all my software and noticed that Inoreader was from the EU. Great modern RSS reader.