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Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
- Air passenger rights (older, 2004, newly updated 2025)
- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
- EU-Mercosur trade deal
- EU-Japan trade deal
- EU-Singapore trade deal
- EU-Vietnam trade deal
- EU-Indonesia trade deal
- End of roaming charges, extended to 2032
- Price cap on calls and texts to other EU countries
- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
- Streaming subscriptions that work abroad
- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
- Automatic emergency braking in new cars
- EU-Alert emergency warnings on phones
- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
- No more apostille stamps between member states
- WiFi4EU free public wifi
- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
- European Universities alliances
- European Solidarity Corps
- EU Digital COVID Certificate
- Joint COVID vaccine procurement
- Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- EU4Health
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan
- European Health Data Space
- NextGenerationEU joint borrowing
- SURE short-time work loans
- 15% global minimum corporate tax
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3), euro clearing back in the EU
- Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
- European Green Bond Standard
- Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence
- European Defence Fund
- European Peace Facility arms for Ukraine
- EU military training mission for Ukrainian troops
- Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP)
- Strategic Compass and the 5,000-strong rapid deployment capacity
- European Defence Industrial Strategy
- Security Action for Europe (SAFE), €150bn joint defence loans
- ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030
- First ever Commissioner for Defence and Space
- Military mobility funding
- IRIS² sovereign satellite constellation
- EU Space Programme and the EU Agency for the Space Programme
- rescEU shared firefighting fleet
- 5G security toolbox
- Foreign investment screening
- Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- International Procurement Instrument
- Anti-Coercion Instrument
- Dual-use export control regulation
- Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees
- Candidate status and accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
- Ukraine Facility
- €90bn joint-borrowing loan to Ukraine
- Sanctions on Russia (older, 2014), big packages from 2022
- Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- Russian oil embargo and oil price cap
- Russian gas import phase-out
- Western Balkans Growth Plan
- Global Gateway
- REPowerEU
- Gas storage regulation
- Joint gas buying through AggregateEU
- Coordinated gas demand cut
- Windfall levy on fossil energy profits
- Electricity market reform
- European Climate Law, net zero by 2050
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Emissions Trading System reform and the Social Climate Fund
- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Methane regulation
- Nature Restoration Law
- Ambient air quality directive
- Drinking water directive
- Urban wastewater directive, polluter pays
- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
- Net-Zero Industry Act
- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
- Ban on vague greenwashing claims
- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
- Annual Rule of Law Report
- Article 7 against Hungary
- Whistleblower protection directive
- European Labour Authority
- Work-life balance directive, paternity leave
- Adequate minimum wages directive
- Pay transparency directive
- Women on boards directive
- Violence against women directive
- European Child Guarantee
- European Accessibility Act
- European Disability Card
- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
- Single Market Emergency Instrument
- EU Inc (proposed)
- Digital euro (in negotiation)
- Next EU budget at close to €2 trillion (proposed)
- European Competitiveness Fund (proposed)
- AgoraEU culture and media programme (proposed)
- Savings and Investments Union (proposed)
- European supervision of big stock exchanges and crypto firms (proposed)
- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- Digital Omnibus simplification (proposed)
- European Business Wallet (proposed)
- European Innovation Act (expected)
- Quantum Act (expected)
- Cloud and AI Development Act (expected)
- Chips Act 2.0 (expected)
- Biotech Act (proposed)
- Advanced Materials Act (expected)
- Industrial Accelerator Act (expected)
- Circular Economy Act (expected)
- Critical Medicines Act (proposed)
- EU Space Act (proposed)
- European Grids Package (proposed)
- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Personalmente, os quiero a todos. Haced lo que queráis en las elecciones, con convicción. Estoy convencido de que lo publico es esencial y que nos sostiene de muchas formas. Pero la estructura de incentivos de los políticos va a acabar con nosotros si no plantamos pie en tierra.
Dame a un jugador que se emocione así por jugar con mi país. Que sea del Barça, del Madrid o del Atlético Minero. #españa marca.com/futbol/seleccion/2…
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Ayer me comentaron que en X había ocurrido esto. No me lo podía creer, pero es verdad. Hemos cruzado una línea roja realmente preocupante.
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Adding your name to a memorial already named in honor of a great man doesn’t make you a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on top of someone else’s doesn’t mean that people will speak of you in the same breath as the other man. Putting your name above another man’s name on his existing memorial… What is that about? Truly? What’s that about? Do you want people to speak the names as one? Dig down deep. What are you trying to say? I’m really interested. There is no other president who would do this. None. Zero. In fact, it’s not even legal. Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial in 1964, and only congress can change that law.
This will always be the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art. A great man would have said to his hand picked board, “Thank you, but the building already has its name. Let it stand. Let it be. I don’t need that.” But then again…
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Before we visited the Péterfy Hospital I thought I'd take a closer look at this masterpiece. After all, this is what the Orbán government spends taxpayers' money on instead of disinfectants for hospitals.
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This Is a Lie ❌
This list was created by pro-Russian ultra-right activists who started spreading it through pro-Russian accounts and Russian media. In reality, no official statistics like this exist at all. And even based on publicly known data, the lies are obvious:
China 🇨🇳
The numbers are understated by several times. China regularly imprisons people en masse for online comments and is the absolute leader on this list.
Russia 🇷🇺
Also a lie. Even by Russia’s own minimized official data, there are over 1,000 people prosecuted just for comments under criminal cases for “discrediting the army” and for publishing the truth online. And that doesn’t even include all the other articles, including criticism of Putin. Russia comes second after China.
Belarus 🇧🇾
The numbers are also understated. There are no official figures, but political arrests after 2020 have already reached much higher levels.
Turkey 🇹🇷
The number of people imprisoned for online comments is also underreported. There are thousands jailed under “terrorism” charges related to social media activity.
Germany 🇩🇪
More or less accurate data, but these are cases related to supporting Nazism and Holocaust denial.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
The figures are accurate according to The Times (2023), but these detentions were for harassment, incitement to hatred, and terrorist propaganda, not for simple comments. These are not political repressions like in dictatorships.
USA 🇺🇸
Cases for harassment are indeed around 50, but again, these are not political detentions like in Russia, Belarus, or China.
No one is detained for freedom of speech in the UK, Europe, or the United States.
But in Asian dictatorships, such arrests are routine. You have no right to criticize — otherwise you go to prison.
If you think otherwise — go live in Russia, North Korea, Iran, or China, and then we’ll see what you say 🙂
If what you claim were actually true, you’d already be sitting in prison for posts like this. So either you’re lying, or you’re writing this from an office of Russian bot farms 🙂
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Tech Bro's Sense of Smell: A Short Story in Three Acts
Act I
A woman posts a photo holding her English PhD thesis on the politics of smell (or the relationship between smell and power).
Tech bros left, right, and center troll her, trash her. Thousands of hateful, sexist comments.
This is a complete and utter waste of time and effort and money; literary studies is a fake academic field, they say.
Who even needs yet another PhD in English, they ask.
Act II
A white tech bro sees a photo of a hackathon with a bunch of young Indian men in the foreground.
"imagine the smell," he comments.
Indian tech bros criticize him. This is racist, they say.
We wash ourselves with water after pooping unlike you folks who use dry toilet paper. It's you who smells, they say.
They ask the white tech bro to apologize.
White tech bro says, this is a harmless joke, all hackathons smell. He says, he will not apologize, and asks others to be charitable with him.
Indian tech bros start leaving 1 star reviews for the app the company the white tech bro works at.
Act III
The white tech bros' boss is an Indian tech bro.
The Indian boss fires the white tech bro.
Epilogue
Now do you see how complex the relationship between smell and power is. That's why smart folks at top universities spend years trying to understand and explain this relationship.
ALT Dr Ally Louks photo with her PhD thesis titled, "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Literature."
ALT A screenshot of a tweet by Taylor with a photo of an xai hackathon. Under the photo, Pash comments, "imagine the smell."
ALT Verified user’s long apology thread about a former Head of AI, stating he’s no longer with the company and asking for peace for him and his family.
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Incluso con sus insufribles líderes y burocracia, la UE es la región más libre, desarrollada y cívica del mundo.
Que Putin y Trump quieran desmantelarla tiene sentido.
Que haya idiotas útiles dentro de la propia UE apoyándoles es otra prueba de estos tiempos lunáticos.
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
🇺🇸🇪🇺 Americans often ask me why so many Europeans seem to “hate America.” And every time, I give the same answer. We don’t. Not even close. Europeans actually love the real America, the one built on curiosity, creativity, humour, openness, and that effortless friendliness you meet the moment you land in Boston or San Diego. That America has a permanent fan club on this side of the Atlantic.
What Europeans push back against is something entirely different. MAGA is not America. MAGA is a political product engineered by billionaires who tell ordinary people they can become just like them, if only they get angry at the right enemies. It is a movement built on fear instead of confidence, outrage instead of optimism, and nostalgia instead of progress. Europeans react to it not because they dislike Americans, but because they recognise the pattern. We have seen versions of this before. It never ends well.
And here’s the thing. Most MAGA supporters aren’t bad people. Many are simply caught in a machine designed to keep them frustrated, suspicious, and loyal. They are told the world is against them, that experts lie, that allies cheat, that democracy is rigged unless their guy wins. When Europeans criticise MAGA, it is not an attack on those people. It is frustration at the billionaires and political operatives who deliberately mislead them.
So no, Europe does not hate America. We admire the America that still leads in science, technology, film, music, human rights, and cultural energy. But we will always call out the forces that try to shrink that America into something smaller, angrier, and less free. Because in the end, we want the best version of America to win. And honestly, so do most Americans.
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Ni los gritos de políticos fanáticos empujados por sus propios traumas y complejos;
ni las amenazas de billonarios llenos de ego, incapaces de entender la solidaridad ni la empatía humana,
van a detener el mayor proyecto de paz, democracia y justicia social de la Historia.
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Ayer falleció George Wendt, al que la mayoría asocia con su personaje en una de las series más míticas de la televisión.
Al entrar le gritaban: "NORM" y el respondía con una genialidad. Era el lugar en el que todos saben tu normbre.
¡Brindemos! Empieza el #MakeEmLaugh!🍺 🧵⤵️
Pablo Álvarez retweeted
Un chico español de 16 años llamado Rafael asesinó a un taxista en Alcalá. Como siempre políticos de VOX, neonazis, cuentas anónimas verificadas y pseudomedios financiados con nuestros impuestos como EDAtv inventaron que era marroquí y miles de bots retuitearon de manera impune.
Bueno, pues esto me ha salido hoy. Sobre la huelga de alquileres y otras cosas
Feliz domingo
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ACOMPÁÑALE A SENTIRTE DESGRACIADO:
#ConsultorInmobiliario
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Mil gracias @Palvarez @lariojacom 🛜🏠
