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Echoing Musk, Georgian Dream creates a Department of Government Efficiency. (oc-media.org)

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The Georgian Dream government has decided to create a ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ to ostensibly oversee various branches of the executive power. The name of the planned agency mirrors that of a so-called department established by unelected tech billionaire Elon Musk during US President Donald Trump’s second term.

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The prospect of war has turned Europe into a continent of preppers (www.economist.com)

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Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters (theintercept.com)

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Situation ‘alarming’: Germany lost 120,000 jobs in manufacturing sector in 2024 (brusselssignal.eu)

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Who pays the price for the return of German militarism? (peoplesdispatch.org)

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Opaque US anti-tax foundation to advise EU Commission. (corporateeurope.org)

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A US think tank that recently opened a Brussels office to lobby for aggressively lower taxes is received with open arms by the Commission. But who is behind the organisation, and who funds it? The Transparency Register fails to reveal dark money flows – in the Tax Foundation’s case from US right-wing libertarian sources – and as such clearly needs a make-over.

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Belgium’s two largest trade union confederations have launched a general strike in protest against the Arizona government’s austerity agenda (peoplesdispatch.org)

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“After the water”: fighting the mud and invisible wounds. (facta.eu)

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"With the mud it’s a losing battle. It wins. It always wins. It becomes like cement and it’s impossible to remove it". This is Francesca Placci, a young woman from Faenza, speaking about the floods that devastated the Romagna region. The same words could come from the mouth of any other flood victim, because most of the time the fight is with the mud, a mud that never seems to completely go away.

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How many divisions does Europe have? A look at the state of Europe’s defence. (voxeurop.eu)

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‘I’m terrified’: Disabled benefit claimants on the impact of Labour’s £5 billion cuts (www.independent.co.uk)

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