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EU science advisers slam Brussels' weakened 2040 climate plans (Zia Weise/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-science-adviser-slam-brussels-weakened-2040-climate-goal-hoekstra-carbon-credits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p19#a250602p19

Last call, back in the office, and tomorrow off to Brussels to talk @… with the EU commission. Slightly wishing I was back in Greenland..
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

Next Ramstein summit to take place on June 4 in Brussels: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/next-ramstein-summit-to-take.html

Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

It's on days like today that @…'s rain radar really comes into it's own - I've been trying to clear some admin from home, but I need to bike to the office to print a poster for this week's @… meeting in Brussels - guess I'm going to wait an hour or so then..
https://www.dmi.dk/#radar

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

Apple overhauls EU App Store to comply with DMA: developers can push offers and alt payments, and the Core Technology Fee will be swapped for tiered commission (Anupriya Datta/Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news

Canada-Europe security and defence pact to be signed Monday
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-europe-security-and-defence-pact-to-be-signed-monday-in-brussels/?taid=6855bdfae74102000174bf16

Grève Š Zaventem : la planète et les générations futures remercient les grévistes
https://bx1.be/communes/zaventem/laeroport-de-bruxelles-annule-mardi-au-moins-30-des-v…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Brussels Chamber Orchestra, Kuppens, Ann, Пётр Ильич Чайковский & Gavriel Lipkind:
🎵 Variations on a rococo theme for cello and string orchestra, Op.33
#Kuppens #Ann #newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/04mrcaTApduw7tFO7z8oyJ

lol at Ian Hislop hosting the Paul Foot awards:
(1/2)
"Boris Johnson, fellow journalist, wrote about Keir Starmer. He said Keir was the orange ball-chewing manacled gimp of Brussels. And we always tell young journalists: write about what you know!
Some of you will remember that a lot of Tory MPs were actually found with orange balls in manacles at various stages of the last government.

Sources: Apple is locked in last-minute EU negotiations over App Store changes to avoid fines set for this week, and is expected to offer "steering" concessions (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b5d51870-e864-4aa5-b998-c0d2994a7e2…

Apple locked in last-minute App Store negotiations to avoid Brussels fines
Tech group must make concessions to comply with Digital Markets Act or be hit by escalating levies from Thursday

A clear sunny Winter solstice day, so why not Chicken katsu udon soup with roasted rice tea for lunch at Tokyo Canteen in Kingston?
The soup had citrus-pickled vegetables in it (daikon, carrot, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts) - which was a pleasant surprise (I just expected dashi or miso or something).
#food #canberra

At the CTIF workshop in Brussels on copyright infrastructure, a cooperative project of the Finnish and the Estonian governments. I will talk about licensing linked data for trust in media

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

The European Court of Justice's advocate-general says the EU's €4.12B fine against Google over its dominance of Android should be upheld, a major blow to Google (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd63dd58-37a6-4af8-8050-40b7405da2bb

Google dealt blow at EU’s top court over record €4.12bn competition fine
Ruling supports Brussels regulators findings over dominance of tech giant’s Android mobile operating system

#Canada signs new #security and #defence partnership with #Europe

"L'obstruction, le retard ou l'affaiblissement de réglementations démocratiquement adoptées signalent un changement de priorités en faveur du profit privé Š court terme, au détriment des objectifs sociaux et environnementaux Š long terme"
#RulesToProtect #démocratie

Good morning from Copenhagen where it's a beautiful day and I'm off to Brussels to represent @… with our @… friends @… @… @… talking impacts of #ClimateChange in the Polar regions, ice sheets, #biodiversity and sea level rise.
It's apparently #WorldBicycleDay2025 today, but although I normally #cycle to work, today it's just a short tour to the metro station...