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https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age…

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it.
Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”

The E.U. Is trying to stall the awarding of a lucrative Balkans pipeline contract to a company fronted by Donald Trump's personal lawyer
Brussels has clashed with Trump over trade, Ukraine and military spending,
but the intervention in the "Southern Interconnection pipeline project" appears to mark the first time it has challenged a commercial venture by those close to the president.
The pipeline will run through Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Under what Bosnia…

This new energy supplier in Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels) provides access to the TSOs' imbalance prices. It works with smart control of devices (EVs and heat pumps) and is now accepting early bird interest requests.
https://10senergy.com

Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is a "demo" (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-laun…

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it.
Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”

As a tribute to the fierce heatwaves roasting our cities these days, the city of Brussels just turned the Schuman roundabout facing the EC headquarters into a giant slab of concrete.
Via Hans Diels on LinkedIn.

European Commission advertised an age checking app. Hackers discovered it took 2 minutes to break it.
The good news is the EU open-sourced the app from the beginning. The bad news is the EU did not think of assessing the security of such a sensitive app before making a political statement.

On the face of it, a technical detail – but aren’t details like that what make Europe a superpower? A single market for V2G, for example, absolutely requires these harmonised network codes - technical specifications for electricity - as a prerequisite.
https://www.e…

Europe’s power grid breaks apart as Brussels rulemaking fails to keep pace | Euractiv
A set of 'network codes' drawn up in the noughties governs what has been called 'the world's largest machine' – but are they still fit for purpose?

The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 April 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, then primarily coal.
All five of the European institutions in operation today were born that day in Paris.
Over the following decades the peace process expanded.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland a…

Why is Brussels ignoring EU’s 75-year anniversary?

Offensichtlich ist der Preis für fossile Kraftstoffe doch ein wirksames Mittel die Verschwendung einzudämmen:
Lufthansa streicht bis Oktober 20.000 Kurzstreckenflüge in ihrem gesamten Streckennetz, um „eine Einsparung von mehr als 40.000 Tonnen Kerosin“ zu erzielen. Auch andere Airlines ergreifen Maßnahmen.

Lufthansa axes 20,000 ‘unprofitable’ flights to save jet fuel
BRUSSELS — Lufthansa is ending 20,000 short-haul routes across its network through October to achieve “jet fuel savings of more than 40,000 metric tons,” the airline announced on Tuesday. Jet fuel …

People need to talk more about the destruction of buildings funded by the EU and other countries/organisations. Demand reparations!
https://euobserver.com/222661/israel-has-bombed-and-bulldozed-e150m-…

Israel has bombed and bulldozed €150m of EU-funded buildings in Gaza and West Bank – but never paid back a cent
Israel has damaged at least €150m of European taxpayer-funded structures in Gaza and the West Bank, but not paid back one euro, according to an EUobserver investigation compiling data from the EU and third-party aid groups, amid Brussels' wall of silence.