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Around 10 European allies willing to send troops to Ukraine, talks accelerate on security guarantees, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/around-european-allies-willing-to.html

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyberattack-disrupts-check-systems-major-european-airports-125760897
Cyberattack disrupts check-in systems at major European airports

Cyberattack disrupts check-in systems at major European airports
A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems has disrupted air traffic at several major European airports

HUN-REN RCNS and its consortium receive prestigious European funding for the first human testing of a prosthesis designed to restore vision https://www.ttk.hun-ren.hu/en/recent-news/

HUN-REN RCNS and its Consortium Receive Prestigious European Funding for the First Human Testing of a Prosthesis Designed to Restore Vision
Over the past five years, the Belgian startup ReVision Implant has been developing a groundbreaking brain prosthesis that aims to partially restore vision to the blind. A consortium was formed to carry out the first human testing of the technology, consisting of the manufacturing startup and three research groups, including the

eu_airlines: European airline network
A multiplex network of airline routes among European airports, where each of the 37 edge types represents routes by a different airline.
This network has 450 nodes and 3588 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_airl…

#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees;
...because they're busy in DC which is more violent, no doubt... 😏
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/19/european-leaders-ukraine-russia-trump

"For all his manifest inadequacies, "
"Trump understands Putin’s position better than European leaders"
| Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trump-understands-putins-position-better-european-lead…

Erinnere mich noch, wie Habeck während der erste. Amtszeit Trumps Trump als den Feind bezeichnete und beim Schnellenbach damit heftige anale Inkontinenz hervorrief.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage

Two European incidents revealed last week -- an attack on a Norwegian dam by a Russia-friendly group known as Z-Pentest Alliance and a supposedly Russia-linked attack on a Polish city's water supply -- underscore that water utilities should intensify their focus on cybersecurity.
Check out my latest CSO piece. Thanks to former White House cyber official Jake Braun and ICS security specialist Ron Fabela for their insights.
Russia-linked European attacks renew concerns over wat…

Russia-linked European attacks renew concerns over water cybersecurity
Suspected sabotage in Norway and a foiled cyberattack in Poland highlight the growing risk to under-protected water utilities, experts warn.

Nice, Trump gives Putin the red carpet treatment, european leaders don't even get a handshake when arriving.
"European leaders were greeted by the Chief of Protocol and former Fox News personality Monica Crowley rather than the president."
#trump #EU

Rubio denies European leaders coming to White House to 'keep Zelensky from being bullied': https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/rubio-denies-european-leaders-coming.html

People are starving in Gaza, you fucks. Talk about not having taste. Read the fucking room. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115059906348542852

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image Europe’s taste is timeless and protected. From golden Mediterranean olive oil to summit-aged cheeses, over 3,600 products are registered as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Geographical Indication (GI). These labels don’t just reveal the story behind the name. They preserve it, celebrating the communities behind it, their craft, and its quality. This summer, discover the flavours that define Europe 👇 https://eur…

European leaders to join Ukraine's Zelenskyy for White House meeting with Trump (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/european-leaders-white-house-meeting-zelenskyy-trump-d7b082bae4136ef8932e16ac2d166303
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p8#a250817p8

Hoping that European governments are working diligently to intensify their military cooperation with Ukraine while their prime ministers are playing along with Trump. Ukrainians won't believe in security guarantees (again) and peacekeepers anyway.

And now for something completely different, what are all you European Linux people using for secure automatic cloud backups of docs and pictures on your linux laptops?
Asking for a teenager used to onedrive.
#DigitalSovereignty
proton
pcloud
nextcloud
Something else? (Add in replies)

The European Union Deforestation Regulation: The Impact on Argentina
Pablo de la Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11796

The European Union Deforestation Regulation: The Impact on Argentina
We analyze the potential economic impacts in Argentina of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which as of January 2026 will prohibit the export to the European Union of certain raw materials and related products if they involve the use of deforested land. We estimate that the EUDR would cover around 6 billion US dollars in exported value, but only 2.84% is not compliant with the EUDR, with soy and cattle being the most affected production chains. We use a dynamic computable gene…

Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a "cyber-related disruption" as Heathrow and other European airports report issues (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/en/cyberattack-causes-flight-delays-…

EU's von der Leyen urges leaders to 'swiftly' adopt sanctions against Russia after Estonia incident
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has now weighed in on the Estonian incident too, linking it with the need to “swiftly” approve the new package of sanctions against Russiaproposed earlier today

Les Juifs européens se joignent Š l'appel demandant le départ du « tsar de l'antisémitisme » de l'UE
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar980add78

The BBC's "Verify" team has done a good job in explaining that this viral image of European leaders waiting for Trump has been generated by AI.
But quite why they've slapped an "AI GENERATED" warning over the image, rather than just simply "FAKE" is puzzling.

Germany's Bundesliga awards part of its UK live broadcasting rights to a YouTube content creator, Mark Goldbridge, a first for a major European soccer league (Sebastian Stafford-Bloor/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6560329/2025/08/20/mar…

YouTuber Mark Goldbridge among Bundesliga’s UK broadcast partners for this season
The new agreement is due to be announced today and is expected to be in place for the Bundesliga’s first round of games.

This seems significant.
"As well as the UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office."

Let’s take a look back at GÉANT’s 2024 — all in one place.
Our 2024 Annual Report captures how GÉANT and its community of NRENs continue to drive innovation, collaboration, and impact for the European #Research & #Education community.
Inside you'll learn more about the GÉANT GN5-1 a…

"Coca-Cola Changes Labels After Legal Challenge Over Plastic Bottle Recycling Claims"
#CocoaCola #Plastic #Plastics

Coca-Cola Changes Labels After Legal Challenge Over Plastic Bottle Recycling Claims | Happy Eco News
Legal challenges to plastic bottle recycling claims have forced major beverage companies to change their marketing practices. Coca-Cola removed misleading labels after European authorities found recycling claims deceived consumers. Similar investigations target Nestlé and Danone as global regulators increase scrutiny of environmental marketing across the industry.

Climate change responsible for 1,700 heat-related deaths in a single European region, study finds https://phys.org/news/2025-09-climate-responsible-deaths-european-region.html

Climate change responsible for 1,700 heat-related deaths in a single European region, study finds
Climate change was responsible for 1,700 heat-related deaths in the Swiss canton of Zurich between 1969 and 2018, according to new research from the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. These deaths represent nearly one-third of all heat-related mortality in the region during that period.

Towards a European Quantum Act: A Two-Pillar Framework for Regulation and Innovation
Mauritz Kop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14262 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Towards a European Quantum Act: A Two-Pillar Framework for Regulation and Innovation
Quantum technologies promise transformative advancements but pose significant dual-use risks. Realizing their potential while mitigating risks necessitates a robust, anticipatory, and harmonized EU regulatory framework, grounded in the precautionary principle. Such a framework must be sui generis, as foundational quantum mechanical phenomena -incl. superposition, entanglement, and tunneling -defy the intuitive classical assumptions of factual certainty, causality, and locality that underpin exi…

LIVE: Trump meets with Zelenskyy and European leaders at White House: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/live-trump-meets-with-zelenskyy.html

Just finished "Dreams from Many Rivers" by Margarita Engle. It's a Latin-American history of the United States, written in poems that take on the points of view of a number of both fictional and actual people. It starts with the arrival of Spanish colonists in Puerto Rico, which was in fact the first part of the present-day States to experience European colonialism.
Its super informative and a great read to appreciate the complexities of history that ICE and the US white supremacist movement are trying to sweep under the rug. Like how the fuck do you deport a person whose indigenous and then Mexican ancestors lived in Arizona for centuries but now that it's claimed by the US since they speak Spanish they're "foreign."
It's a pretty quick read since it's a lot of short poems, and it's got lovely illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"One person who seems to take Mr Putin’s words at face value is Mr Trump, who, over the months, has displayed an almost clinical dependence on the Kremlin’s strongman, and has recoiled every time Ukraine and its European allies have urged him to apply pressure on him."
Putin’s desire to destroy Western unity rages on

Putin’s desire to destroy Western unity rages on
He bets on a military breakthrough or a Trump-brokered stitch-up

No fun traveling today and maybe for quite some time if this is a ransomware attack.
Chaos at Heathrow: Passengers in three-hour queues to check in bags with flights delayed and cancelled after cyber attack hits airlines across Europe
https://www.dailym…

Chaos at Heathrow: Passengers in three-hour queues to check in bags with flights delayed and cancelled after cyber attack hits airlines across Europe
Passengers at the UK's largest airport are facing huge queues this morning after hackers targeted Collins Aerospace, which provides services for multiple airlines globally, on Friday night.

European police bust network selling thousands of phone numbers to scammers https://therecord.media/europe-sim-farms-raided-latvia-austria-estonia

These European leaders will accompany Zelensky to meet with Trump (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/17/zelensky-trump-meeting-european-leaders
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p48#a250817p48

Stochastic Streets: A Walk Through Random LLM Address Generation in four European Cities
Tairan Fu, David Campo-Nazareno, Javier Coronado-Bl\'azquez, Javier Conde, Pedro Reviriego, Fabrizio Lombardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12914

Stochastic Streets: A Walk Through Random LLM Address Generation in four European Cities
Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of solving complex math problems or answer difficult questions on almost any topic, but can they generate random street addresses for European cities?

Russia remains anchored tot he past in their reliance on railways and primitive logistics.
Ukraine demonstrates the power of a functioning road system as one simple and obvious benefit of embracing a European (modern world) approach to transit.
This translates into battlefield strategy for Ukraine to dominate, even with much smaller numbers.
#ukraine

Railways Of War
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

#rstats #spanishoddata will be presented next week at the MNO-MINDS ESSnet Project Final Conference https://cros.ec.eur…

How European, national and local policies enhance each other’s effectiveness. And how cities make EU policy work for business and society.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_how-european-national-and-local-policies-a…

How European, national, and local policies enhance each other's effectiveness. The share of electric vans and light trucks in new sales in the Netherlands has risen to more than three-quarters this… | Jaap Burger
How European, national, and local policies enhance each other's effectiveness. The share of electric vans and light trucks in new sales in the Netherlands has risen to more than three-quarters this year. A clear result of the introduction of local zero-emission zones for freight in an increasing number of Dutch cities, and updated taxation rules. The graph and table are from an excellent The International Council on Clean Transportation post by Dr. Sandra Wappelhorst and Eamonn Mulholland exp…

From SALAMANDRA to SALAMANDRATA: BSC Submission for WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task
Javier Garcia Gilabert, Xixian Liao, Severino Da Dalt, Ella Bohman, Audrey Mash, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Irene Baucells, Joan Llop, Miguel Claramunt Argote, Carlos Escolano, Maite Melero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12774

From SALAMANDRA to SALAMANDRATA: BSC Submission for WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task
In this paper, we present the SALAMANDRATA family of models, an improved iteration of SALAMANDRA LLMs (Gonzalez-Agirre et al., 2025) specifically trained to achieve strong performance in translation-related tasks for 38 European languages. SALAMANDRATA comes in two scales: 2B and 7B parameters. For both versions, we applied the same training recipe with a first step of continual pre-training on parallel data, and a second step of supervised fine-tuning on high-quality instructions. The BSC subm…

Ukraine proposes $100 billion US weapons deal backed by European allies, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukraine-proposes-billion-us-weapons.html

I'm dispositionally sceptical of falling sky prophesies and what Mr Schneier calls "movie plot threats".
But.
I can't deny I'm a bit nervous that all this noisy dancing up to the edge of disaster and back might be a deliberate scheme, intended to get European militaries locked up on the Eastern front from Finland to Romania, before China finally have a crack at Taiwan.
"Estonia seeks Nato consultation after Russian jets violate airspace"

Nato intercepts Russian warplanes violating Estonian airspace
Estonia says three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets remained in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes.

All European leaders will praise Trump tomorrow but that is all theater. Inside, with doors closed all those European leaders will be much harder to bully then Zelensky alone.
#geopolitics #trump #zelensky

Europe’s Leaders Avoided A Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington
to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine.
A road map for peace remains elusive.
The seven European leaders put forward a show of support for Mr. Zelensky and unity with each other.
They won a potentially vital, if vague, expression of support from Trump for postwar security guarantees for Ukraine
and sid…

Europe’s Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains elusive.

So. Jetzt das erste Mal aktiv #GoEuropean gennutzt, um nach europäischen Produkten zu schauen: https://www.goeuropean.org/#products-list
Statt Speicher von Sandisk aus den USA kommt jetzt Emtec au…

Go European — Discover European products and services
Go European is a community-driven directory bringing you European products and services from across the continent.

The spectral Tur\'{a}n problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Longfei Fang, Huiqiu Lin, Mingqing Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12070 https://

The spectral Turán problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Let ${\rm EX}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)$ denote the families of $n$-vertex $H$-free graphs with the maximum size and the maximum spectral radius, respectively. A graph $H$ is said to be spectral-consistent if ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)\subseteq {\rm EX}(n,H)$ for sufficiently large $n$. A fundamental problem in spectral extremal graph theory is to determine which graphs are spectral-consistent. Cioabă, Desai and Tait [European J. Combin. 99 (2022) 103420] proposed the following conjecture: Let $H$ be…

Reclaiming Constitutional Authority of Algorithmic Power
Yiyang Mei, Michael J Broyde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11699

Reclaiming Constitutional Authority of Algorithmic Power
Whether and how to govern AI is no longer a question of technical regulation. It is a question of constitutional authority. Across jurisdictions, algorithmic systems now perform functions once reserved to public institutions: allocating welfare, determining legal status, mediating access to housing, employment, and healthcare. These are not merely administrative operations. They are acts of rule. Yet the dominant models of AI governance fail to confront this reality. The European approach cente…

"#RDC Deutschland Group to continue #NightTrain service between Berlin – Hamburg – Stockholm"

RDC Deutschland wird Nachtzug Berlin Stockholm fortführen
The company will continue to offer the established connections even after government funding in Sweden ends. While the European night train landscape is undergoing change, the RDC Deutschland Group is focusing on continuity and responsibility. The company will continue to operate the successful Berlin – Hamburg – Stockholm night train connection even after government funding expires in summer 2026.

#GameOverIsrael: European campaign calls to boycott Israel in football - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/opab4d7kkpg

'We could reach an agreement that could deter any future aggression against Ukraine,' Trump tells European leaders: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/we-could-reach-an-agreement.html

Topology and Fragility of European High-Voltage Networks: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
B\'alint Hartmann, Michelle T. Cirunay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12900 https:…

Topology and Fragility of European High-Voltage Networks: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Reliable electricity supply depends on the seamless operation of high-voltage grid infrastructure spanning both transmission and sub-transmission levels. Beneath this apparent uniformity lies a striking structural diversity, which leaves a clear imprint on system vulnerability. In this paper, we present harmonized topological models of the high-voltage grids of 15 European countries, integrating all elements at voltage levels above 110 kV. Topological analysis of these networks reveals a simple…

Keir Starmer to join European leaders for Zelenskyy-Trump meeting at White House on Monday - live (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/17/trump-putin-meeting-european-leaders-ukraine-peace-deal-latest-updates-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p6#a250817p6

""A great and very successful day in Alaska!" Trump began. "The meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia went very well, as did a late night phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and various European Leaders, including the highly respected Secretary General of NATO.""
'Self-own of embarrassing proportions': Critics mock Trump's failed summit spin - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-failed-summit/

"The Billie Eilish Upcycled Merch Program Saves 280,000 T-Shirts From Landfills"
#Fashion #Textiles #Clothes

The Billie Eilish Upcycled Merch Program Saves 280,000 T-Shirts From Landfills | Happy Eco News
The Billie Eilish upcycled merch program with Universal Music Group transforms warehouse waste into 280,000 sustainable concert t-shirts. This groundbreaking initiative diverts decades of unwanted merchandise from landfills, creates European fan products, and establishes the music industry's most ambitious environmental project while inspiring other labels to adopt circular fashion practices

More than 343,000 hectares (848,000 acres) of land – the equivalent of nearly half a million football pitches [or a suare with sides 58.6 km long] – have been destroyed this year in Spain, setting a new national record, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)
Wildfires rage across Spain and Portugal as record area of land burned | Climate News | Al Jazeera

Wildfires rage across Spain and Portugal as record area of land burned
Wildfires in Spain and Portugal burn record land and force evacuations as heatwave and drought spur the flames.

A bird's eye view of stellar evolution through populations of variable stars in Galactic open clusters
Richard I. Anderson, Emily L. Hunt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12866 ht…

A bird's eye view of stellar evolution through populations of variable stars in Galactic open clusters
Both star clusters and variable stars are sensitive laboratories of stellar astrophysics and evolution: cluster member stars provide context for interpreting cluster populations, whereas variability reveals the nature of individual stellar systems. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has revolutionized the census of star clusters in the Milky Way, while simultaneously providing an unprecedented homogeneous all-sky catalog of variable stars. Here, we leverage the third Gaia data release to …

"On nous a assuré que le seul engagement de la BCE en faveur de la stabilité des prix était un impératif technocratique - non touché par la politique, non façonné par l'idéologie.
Cependant, la nouvelle Revue Stratégique 2025 de la BCE confirme ce que les syndicats ont depuis longtemps mis en garde :
cette neutralité est un mythe, et les politiques de la Banque continuent Š faire pencher le terrain de jeu économique en faveur du

The Budapest Memorandum was a security guarantee…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cev28rvzlv1t?post=asset:afef6662-78a9-4f0e-a475-867d00ca16b9#post

Putin has agreed to 'robust' security guarantees for Ukraine, US envoy says - latest updates
Steve Witkoff describes the proposal as "game-changing" as Zelensky joins a call with European leaders ahead of his White House visit.

Next, an interesting blog from @… - is it finally time for European alternatives? I'd say a resounding YES...
https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/is-it-time-for-european-technology-alternatives/?utm_campaign=Blog&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_content=European_Alternatives

@… this is a tricky problem, because we have US notation and European one (1,000.00 vs 1.000,00).
People are kind of used to see both on screens so I'd say most important is to avoid confusion at all cost when it comes to money.
Space is a good way I guess. Valid for most languages and clear.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 26199 nodes and 48232 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025, Vienna
https://ift.tt/fWQHTkj
CFP: Visibilising Marginalised Early Career Researchers in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies: A…
via Input 4 RELCFP

19th Package of Sanctions against Russia: Statement by European Commission President von der Leyen.
#EU #Russia #Sanctions

Architecture Considerations for ISAC in 6G
Sebastian Robitzsch, Laksh Bhatia, Konstantinos G. Filis, Neda Petreska, Michael Bahr, Pablo Picazo Martinez, Xi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13736

Architecture Considerations for ISAC in 6G
ISAC is emerging as a foundational capability in 6G, enabling mobile networks to not only offer communication services but also to sense and perceive their environment at scale. This paper explores architectural considerations to enable sensing in 6G, extending on recent developments by (pre-)standardisation bodies such as 3GPP and ETSI. Selected ISAC use cases are presented from the European MultiX project including associated potential functional system requirements. The paper proposes a 6G s…

"🔜 Energy Grids Package to fix 8 critical bottlenecks across Europe – from the Pyrenees to the Trans-Balkan pipeline, from the Øresund Strait to the Sicilian Canal"
Pyrenees, you say? Us Iberians are getting properly connected with the grid of the rest of Europe? That's about freaking time, eh?
https://…

European automakers warn of substantial disruption to production after China cut off Nexperia's outbound shipments following the Dutch seizure of Nexperia (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/91304da5-6537-4f80-955a-6cb1df05cbc8

Big steps for digital connectivity in the Western Balkans 🌐
This week at the EU–Western Balkans Investment Forum, the European Commission, GÉANT and 4iG Group signed a joint declaration confirming their shared commitment to advancing secure, high-capacity digital infrastructure and strengthening connectivity across the region.
🔗 Read more:

In the United States, more than 2,500 demonstrations against US President Donald Trump are planned nationwide for Saturday.
The organizers expect millions of participants under the motto
"No Kings".
The first protests are underway in Ann Arbor and other places.
Demonstrations against the growing US authoritarianism also gathered in European capitals.

"No Kings": Hunderte Demonstrationen gegen Trump laufen an - Hubu.de - News & FreeMail
In den USA sind für Samstag landesweit über 2.500 Demonstrationen gegen US-Präsident Donald Trump geplant.

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

European car makers have subsidized Musk's Tesla for years by buying EU carbon credits from him so they could continue to sell fossil fuel cars.
Now the European public is turning away from Tesla, will they move on to subsidizing China's BYD instead?
https://

BYD in Talks to Sell Carbon Credits to European Automakers to Avoid EU Emissions Fines
BYD is in advanced talks with European automakers to form a carbon credit pool, allowing companies with lower EV sales to buy emissions credits

Ukraine war latest: Trump to meet with Zelensky, European leaders in Washington on Aug. 18 after US-Russia summit ends without agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukraine-war-latest-trump-to.html

While I would want an immediate withdrawal from NATO, this seems a politically persuasive line.
"He told the BBC he did not support withdrawing from Nato "immediately" as "the world is in political turmoil, and we need to make sure our country is defended".
"Once we've created an alternative alliance with our European neighbours, we should absolutely be looking at a different way that is focused on peace and diplomacy, rather than on nuclear weapon…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski defends wealth tax proposals
Zack Polanski says a new tax on the rich would tackle "the deep inequality in our society".

I am wondering where the afterparty is planned for the European leaders 🤔

So Zelensky does the first meeting with Trump, he surely has prepared this fully with the european leaders which will join in the second meeting. My guess, they first of all don't want to leave with a fight, no outcome is better then a heated argument. The best outcome is probably some kind of common approach, no matter how vague. If it gets the Putin approach from the table it is a win.
#Zelensky

Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/15/new-macbook-pro-lacks-charger-in-europe/

New MacBook Pro Does Not Include a Charger in the Box in Europe
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy,...

eDIF: A European Deep Inference Fabric for Remote Interpretability of LLM
Irma Heithoff. Marc Guggenberger, Sandra Kalogiannis, Susanne Mayer, Fabian Maag, Sigurd Schacht, Carsten Lanquillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10553

eDIF: A European Deep Inference Fabric for Remote Interpretability of LLM
This paper presents a feasibility study on the deployment of a European Deep Inference Fabric (eDIF), an NDIF-compatible infrastructure designed to support mechanistic interpretability research on large language models. The need for widespread accessibility of LLM interpretability infrastructure in Europe drives this initiative to democratize advanced model analysis capabilities for the research community. The project introduces a GPU-based cluster hosted at Ansbach University of Applied Scienc…

(New Scientist flashback, June 1991) Patents: A sound view https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13017755-100-patents-a-sound-view/ The vOICe vision BCI
"A straight, diagonal white line on a black background, will produce a tone which starts with a …

Patents: A sound view
The Dutch electronics company Philips is patenting a device which gives blind pedestrians an audible picture of the path ahead (European patent application 410 045). A simple video camera with a coarse-image sensor made up from a matrix of 64 x 64 picture points views the scene ahead. Each vertical line of the matrix is …

Officials from various European countries took to social media to share their reactions following the Alaska summit.
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing,"
German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger wrote on X.
"As was to be feared: no ceasefire, no peace. No real progress
— clearly 1:0 for Putin
— no new sanctions.
For the Ukrainians: nothing.
For Europe: deeply disappointing."
During the post-summit …

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing. ... For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."

A look at newsletter-first publisher The European Correspondent, which launched in 2022, got a €2.1M grant from the EU in June, and has almost 70K subscribers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters

Newsletter-based publisher gets huge boost from European Commission grant
The European Correspondent is aiming become self-sustaining through reader donations with a grant from the European Commission in June.

European Parliament head visits Kyiv to meet Zelensky, top officials: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/european-parliament-head-visits-kyiv.html

[Part 1] The GÉANT (GN5-2) Above-the-Net Services Incubator is proud to award 4 projects set to advance digital services for European R&E 🎉
These projects reflect our community’s drive to innovate, co-create, and deliver meaningful impact by developing digital services to power the next generation of data-intensive science & cross-border research collaboration.
👏 Big congratulations to the organisations leading these initiatives.
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Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible.
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Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible. Ministers from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Sweden have just signed a declaration to work on accelerating the development of charging infrastructure fo…

Ukrainian soldier and grandmaster wins gold at European Team Chess Championship: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/19/ukrainian-soldier-and-grandmaster-wins.html

Russia, a European friend of Russia, and an American admirer/asset of Russia to hold 'peace summit'.
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-donald-trump-meeting/

‘We are ready’: Orbán hails planned Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest
The U.S. president says he will meet Russia’s leader in Hungary.

After his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,
Trump adopted Putin’s preference for pursuing a sweeping peace agreement
-- instead of the urgent cease-fire Trump said he wanted before the meeting.
Doing so would give Russia an advantage in the talks,
which are due to continue on Monday when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visits Trump at the White House.
It breaks from a strategy Trump and European allies,
as well as Zelensky, had ag…

After Putin Summit, Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land in Ukraine: Live Updates
After meeting the Russian president, President Trump told European leaders he now favors giving up unoccupied Ukrainian land to Russia to end the fighting, a concession Ukraine has long opposed.

European, NATO leaders to present united front with Zelensky in Trump meeting (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/17/trump-zelensky-meeting-europe/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p34#a250817p34

US may provide air support for Ukraine under peace deal, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/us-may-provide-air-support.html

This week, GÉANT held its first multistakeholder policy event in Brussels—opening a new chapter in how the GÉANT community and European policy makers can work together to shape the #DigitalTransformation of #Europe.
This event laid the groundwork for an ongoing dialogue between GÉANT, …

EU's 19th sanctions package against Russia expected to be ready in September, Kallas says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/eus-th-sanctions-package-against.html

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/

Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty International said today in a new report “Shadows of Control”. The year-long investigation was carried out in collaboration with Paper Trail Media, DER STANDARD, Follow the […]

Perhaps they'll have to change their brand name to Beyond Dead Animals now?
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/08/when-is-a-sausage-no-longer-a-sausage-european-parliament-answers-a…

When is a sausage no longer one? EU Parliament answers after grilling
The European Parliament has voted to ban meat-related terms like “burger” and “sausage” for plant-based products, prompting backlash from consumer and environmental groups. #EuropeNews

Trump raises topic of Ukraine's EU membership with Orban, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/trump-raises-topic-of-ukraines.html

Interesting to so easily see the quite aggressive radar/jamming near key Russian sites on European Space Agency's Synthetic-Aperture Radar imagery

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🌟 New SIGs Spotlight: SIG-TFN 🌟
A new space for collaboration on Time & Frequency (T&F) networks is here.
SIG-TFN brings metrology scientists, European National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) and NRENs together to develop, test, deploy and standardise T&F distribution across R&E networks—working toward the new Core-Time Frequency Network (C-TFN) at a European level.
📖 Read the full interview in the latest

NATO military leaders to meet on Aug. 20 to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/nato-military-leaders-to-meet.html

I can imagine there is some diplomatic wiggle room in the recognition of russian occupied Crimea, surely not de jure but some de facto maybe... giving up not-occupied territory is complete madness, so will not happen. I am very curious what european diplomats will come up with and whether they can commit Trump to something that is good for Ukraine and Europe.
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After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/clearly-to-putin-european-officials.html

'Borders must not be changed by force' — European leaders back Trump's peace effort but say Ukraine must decide its territory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/borders-must-not-be-changed.html

'International borders cannot be changed by force,' — von der Leyen says in Brussels ahead of Trump meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/international-borders-cannot-be-changed.html

'Extremely dangerous' — European leaders condemn Russia after drones shot down over Poland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/extremely-dangerous-european-leaders-condemn.html

EU's von der Leyen to join Zelensky in Washington talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/eus-von-der-leyen-to.html