To mark the 125th anniversary of the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal this month, here's a 1950s tourism poster designed by Harald Gutschow.
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To mark the 125th anniversary of the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal this month, here's a 1950s tourism poster designed by Harald Gutschow.
What is the European Order of Merit?
Literally on the same morning Merkel got her prize:
The European Union made a “strategic mistake” in turning its back on nuclear energy, Ursula von der Leyen said in thinly-veiled criticism of Germany’s decision to close its reactors.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I'm in the FT today 👇
I do my best Captain Obvious impression with a "well, it depends" regarding the effectiveness of a proposed Danish wealth tax.
End of the line, Berlin.
Eurostat data show how European governments cut taxes on electricity by about half in 2022 as prices spiked.
They have since been steadily reintroduced.
Cutting electricity taxes is again on the table in response to latest price rises & to encourage households to move away from fossil fuels.
This cartoon came out in 1993, so adjusted for inflation Calvin's dad was actually calling for $19 per gallon of petrol
ayatollah is supposed to be an academic position and you can tell this is true because after an extensive search they went with an internal candidate
⚡️Fox News mislabels Ukrainian Shahed-drone intercept footage as part of American ‘high-tech arsenal’ destroying Iranian drones.
According to Ukrainian drone manufacturer Wild Hornets, the footage used by Fox featured STING — a Ukrainian interceptor drone used to destroy Shahed-type drones.
"Imagine if...large-scale programme had been funded to produce batteries at scale and install them in...European households" @martinsandbu.ft.com
Fun fact, we🇧🇬 decided to use RRF🇪🇺 to support batteries (grid-scale). Today, we have 2 of largest BESS in EU and soon up to 10,000 GWh- all in <4 years.
Not yet. With the new glasses I sometimes get Jürgen Klopp, though.
4.8bn people. Less than 50 days of crude stocks in India, SK and Singapore. Weeks of LNG in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Same for jet fuel in Oz/Nz. The Iran war is causing an Asian energy emergency www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Claude will be representing itself.
To seek peace in today’s world, Europe must be able to project power.
To deter, to counter, and to increase our influence.
Security must be our default mindset across all assets and policies.
This will be at the heart of our new European Security Strategy.
New research by me @jdportes.bsky.social: we find that the end of free movement and the new immigration regime rather modestly raised the number of foreign-born workers in Britain – by about 200,000 in 2024. Thread. www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
Few think that the world’s next trillion-dollar tech company will be European. But, perhaps for the first time, that does not seem a silly idea econ.st/3PlThCL
Illustration: Tyler Comrie
Stark.
Ein historischer Moment: 65 Jahre nachdem der erste türkische Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland kam, wird mit @oezdemir.de erstmals ein türkeistämmiger Deutscher Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg.
Das erfüllt mich mit Stolz auf dieses Land. Glückwunsch an Ba-Wü und Cem!
Baden-Württemberg was divided into an American and a French occupation zone after WW2 along a highway. Settlement patterns of German refugees from the East differed, and so does the vote for the AfD today. 👇🏻
"At least 15 countries are involved in the war. By our calculations, 7.5m people live 1km or less from a reported strike."
Reported incoming Iranian munitions
Reported US and Israeli strikes on Iran
Detected abnormal fires at strategic sites in Iran
Phenomenal work by @sondreus.bsky.social and the data team to quantify the munitions used in the Iran war and their targets
www.economist.com/interactive/...
![Comic. [Person 1 talking to a person with shoulder-length hair and a person with a white hat.] PERSON 1: I would never get an electric vehicle. Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge? [caption] I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained tome that EVs are rechargeable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid6f347sqdimhkt27mkvy4xar2cl54zzczyokkzbymwrtuz22qmtq)
Comic. [Person 1 talking to a person with shoulder-length hair and a person with a white hat.] PERSON 1: I would never get an electric vehicle. Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge? [caption] I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained tome that EVs are rechargeable.
Electric Vehicles
xkcd.com/3214/
Arguably a "bold" move to pull off in an election year.
Our Editor interviews the boss of Anthropic, have a look. www.economist.com/insider/the-...
The top rows in Eurostat data getting more and more
The EU and Canada formally launch talks on a digitial trade agreement - see joint statement from CETA joint committee meeting policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/driving...
Capital markets union is all fine and well, but as long as capital markets remain tiny, the payoff from
integration will be small, too.
My leader this week in The @economist.com.
economist.com/leaders/2026...
A good thread by @nilsredeker.bsky.social but I disagree with his optimistic assessment of the @ec.europa.eu IAA. A quick thread :
Dazu gibt es doch schon zahlreiche fundierte Publikationen: Die F-35 hat keinen „Kill-Switch“, mit dem die USA Jets einfach abschalten können.
The ground-breaking 🇩🇪🇬🇧 #KensingtonTreaty is a key contribution towards security & prosperity in Europe, while also fostering people-to-people exchanges.
🇩🇪 Bundestag approved the law on the friendship treaty with a big majority today. More important than ever to stand together.
