Hyperreality
I found the wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_Transport_Network#List_of_transport_networks
Apparently initial proposals for this pre-date brexit by 26 years.
This is a Daily Express article. Utter trash, right wing yellow journalism. Rabidly pro-brexit, endorsed Liz Truss for PM. You know, the weird cheese lady who was outlasted by a lettuce.
Obviously brexit isn't going so well and neither is the latest tory PM, so it's time for their daily article about how the foreigners done ruined Engerland.
Part of Schengen, part of the European Free Trade Association, signed a lot of bilateral treaties and enacted a lot of EU legislation, contributed to EU projects.
The Swiss electorate voted against becoming part of the EU, but the EU's a huge market so Switzerland is quite integrated with the EU while still being independent.
Norway isn't part of the EU either, but they're in a similar position as Switzerland, which is probably why they're also part of this proposal.
Read the article you posted. It doesn't say France is selling Sudan weapons.
It says "Amnesty International representatives call on France and its European partners to press for an effective international arms embargo to be imposed on Sudan" and that "France and its European partners should urgently pressure states concerned by these sales, and international bodies, to impose an effective international arms embargo on Sudan."
The article mentions who those states are. The UAE, Russia/Wagner, China, and Libya. It also mentions that a lot of the weapons are of Soviet and Iranian design. It does not mention France supplying Sudan weapons.
Also, how is France supposed to impose a weapons embargo without a military to monitor shipments? That was a rhetorical question. No need to answer.
Anyway, agree to disagree and all that. No point continuing this discussion.
It's cheaper, but not that much cheaper. Anecdotally, my current car is 8 years old and has cost me roughly 400 euros a year in repairs and servicing. Manual gearbox is fine and should outlast the car.
Also, if I do a simulation for extended warranty and servicing (8 years/210k km) on the manufacturers website for a petrol car and for an equivalent electric car, the difference is roughly 600 euros per year. I suspect that'll be down to the battery. Traditional car the costs are spread over a longer period. Electric the battery or whatever sneaks up on you. The whole thing becomes doubly annoying when you factor in high electricity prices, meaning (sometimes) fuel costs are lower than electricity costs.
To be clear, electric is the future, it's a good thing they'll be banning the sale of new ICE cars here in the foreseeable future, and an electric car almost certainly is cheaper to run. It's just not _that _much cheaper. I assume prices will come down when they're forced to start making more of them and competing with the Chinese.
What a disgraceful sentiment at christmas! For all its flaws, anal cancer doesn't deserve to suffer like that.
Biden was just following up with the order that you gave. WTF _ LOL?!
The thing you need to remember, and it's hard because constant coverage has made us grow used to it, is that he's nuts.
War has never been beneficial to an economy unless they’re selling the weapons instead of waging war with them.
Which is why you need a strong military as a deterrent. It demonstrably reduces the risk of war.
The west has been massively oppressing other countries for about a century now with their “defense”.
Imperialism is wrong, whether it's the west, the Russians, or the Chinese doing it.
There is already a job shortage and you say we need to waste even more workers on making weapons because jobs? Because bombs are going to build houses or something? Especially now the economy is stagnating
You need to increase military spending to prevent war, not for jobs.
But if the economy stagnates or goes into recession, this will lead to job losses, so this argument doesn't make much sense.
It is possible to build more houses and spend money on defense. Once again, this is the false choice fallacy.
Afghanistan and Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and many others don’t exist according to you.
Would the Israelis be carpet bombing Gaza right now, if the Palestinians had a very strong military?
Would the Soviets or Americans have been more or less likely to invade if Afghanistan had a very powerful military?
Sudan has been ruined by France and NATO for the last few decades.
What is now Sudan was a British and not a French colony.
It sounds like you're confusing Sudan with French Sudan, which is present day Mali, or perhaps Niger which has been in the news recently.
In any case, Sudan broke off relations with the west in 1967. They were in the Soviet sphere of influence for decades after that. They've had close ties with Russia and China for years now.
This extra spending has nothing to do with previous purchases.
The F16s were going to be put out of service. That decision was made decades ago.
If the F16 wasn't being replaced with the F35, Rutte wouldn't be sending them to Ukraine. So as a matter of fact, Rutte sending F16s has a lot to do with the previous purchase of F35s.
Increasing military spending to 2% was agreed upon years ago, before Rutte became PM.
I loved how Renault solved this for the Twizzy (and other cars). You bought the car. You leased the battery for something like 50 euros a month. (Probably more now).
Sure, that sounds expensive, but I suspect it worked out less than replacing the battery after a decade.
Suspect it also helped resale value. The most expensive repair to worry about for a second hand buyer, is the battery. Making that a lease removes that worry entirely. You know exactly how much it's going to cost.
Of course, having to pay that monthly lease fee for the battery, does make it more obvious that electric cars aren't necessarily that much cheaper to run than an ICE.
Agreed on the pinch of salt.
I googled middle east monitor:
Their 'director of strategies' is Maha Hussaini, a Gazan journalist who's previously worked for Middle-East Eye. That's a newspaper which is alleged to have ties to Qatar and a pro-Muslim Brotherhood / Hamas bias.
Their founder and chairman is Ramy Abdu, also a Gazan. He's previously worked for the Council for European Palestinian Relations, which has been alleged to be a lobby group for the Hamas government in Gaza.
Obviously they'd deny this.