This isn't just Catholic church thing. It's rampant in any religion, organization, hierarchy, etc. where the person on top of the totem pole demand obedience, they are insulated from outside accountability, and there is a culture of secrecy.
Go probe Ultra-orthodox Jews, Amish community, Quranic Schools. It's rife with sexual abuse.
This sounds insane.
I would disagree vigorously if the minister said they wanted to build coal power plants, but at least you can make the case for it under the guise of domestic energy security. But methane gas power plants? It doesn't help with climate goals, it's not cheap to purchase LNG and it doesn't help with energy security either.
Is she double dipping from US and Russian oil lobby?
Not in Memphis, because that's predominantly Black Americans.
Usually the Southern Republican government grants permits for these types of polluting facilities in non-White communities.
Merz has also created a new Ministry for Digitalization, choosing physicist and tech executive Karsten Wildberger to push overdue digital reforms in government.
Germany needs to adopt an Euro Stack for digital sovereignty.
I'm curious what the final draft will look like.
I'm on the fence about this. UK is a good ally and partner to the EU (even with Brexit), but I'm scared about the UK Reform Party (the far right) winning the next election.
Unless the Brits are buying British made solar panels (and there aren't any) or European manufactured solar panel (not very many), then they should just buy the cheapest and save themselves the tax dollar and lower the cost of energy.
Trade with China.
But handing your critical infrastructure to China is not the way to go.
I wonder why Ukraine doesn't want to reward Russia for invading their country.
It's important to recognize an individual can not move a mountain, so it's important not to get discouraged because you do not see tangible progress nationally. All politics is a grinding trench fight to wait for an opportunity to enact laws.
With that said, the very minimum thing any citizen should do is vote. Vote in local election, vote in federal election, vote in EU election.
Next is attend your local party meeting of your preference. Just showing up and listening shows that there is interest to the politicians. You have opportunity to meet like minded people which is important for networking.
So there's still a 10% tariff across the board. It's not going to kill the economy like the previous tariff, but it will still increase inflation and slow growth. Let's see what happens.
Probably start with energy security for EU. I see that as the biggest vulnerability, and the greatest return on public investment.
Wind, solar, nuclear, energy storage, heat pumps, electric vehicles, etc. Anything to reduce import of foreign hydrocarbons that's vulnerable to supply shock like what we witnessed after Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Might not be a bad idea to collaborate with China, while also not being dependent on them.
The article talks about how French and German Universities have more sovereign tech stacks while the Netherlands has been offloading more to US tech giants like Microsoft. I'm assuming this is due to cost and economy of scale.
Maybe the Netherlands should join Germany or French tech stack for cost saving measures?