“We now go live to Venray for a key race alert!”

Complete coincidence that the European Commission decided to demonstrate the benefits of the tariff ceiling they negotiated with the US with a comparison with a country with a 10% tariff. It could refer to either Brazil or the United Kingdom, wonder which one they were thinking of.

He did say recently that the EU is nastier than China, so a higher tariff than China is just simple consistency

Visiting Switzerland is a strange experience. Everything is very nice, the trains run on time, and there’s always a mountain in the background. But most alienating of all is seeing banks advertise with 5 year mortgages rates of 1.17%

Interesting that inflation didn’t play much of a role, only 5% of Germans mentioned it as the most important theme in their decision

Think this explains the rather mediocre CDU result: German voters don't forget and still blame them for the countries' problems to just about the same extent as the SPD and Greens but the CDU is seen as responsible the high number of refugees

The data from the Bundeswahlleiterin does not take postal votes into account so I assume they’ve corrected for that.

We need a total and complete shutdown of new funds thought up by EU policymakers until someone can figure out what's going on with the same euro of spending being labeled by multiple different programmes, objectives or funds.

We're going to put a new AI sticker on existing programmes, the classic EU approach

So many think pieces on the Habsburgs and European integration only for the North Americans to create a dual presidency with a customs union modelled on the Austro-Hungarian empire

Not sure I’ll ever quite get used to how incredibly patronising the whole system of European fiscal monitoring is