# EU

# EU

vlgr Aug 11, 2026

US Cowboys, Middle Eastern Airspace and Reliable Partners

Y’all remember that awkward Ankara summit where everybody was promised everything, nobody got much of anything, Turkey was once again declared a reliable partner without getting its F-35s, and Trump supposedly flew home on the older Air Force One because the new Qatari jet wasn’t quite sophisticated enough yet? Turns out there weren’t two planes involved. There were three.

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

EU Taxpayers Happy to Finance CIRCULANDIA Packaging Solution

Brussels has solved the small-producer problem. European taxpayers are contributing almost €9 million to CIRCULANDIA, a new Horizon Europe project involving 35 organisations across 12 countries to research circular food systems, local production and reusable packaging. Tax money put to good use.

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

The EU Single Market Now Requires 27 Single Markets

Say goodbye to high-quality local produce from small companies. Europe spent decades removing borders so a small producer in one country could sell to a customer in another as easily as next door. Then it discovered packaging.

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

Pfizer’s New Invention: The Schrödinger’s Control Group and Other Tales

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine was a triumph of modern science. A genuinely extraordinary piece of biotechnology. Within months of SARS-CoV-2 appearing, researchers had designed a nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine capable of instructing human cells to produce the viral spike protein, wrapped that message inside lipid nanoparticles, tested it in tens of thousands of people and prepared the technology for production on a scale previously reserved for Coca-Cola.

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vlgr Aug 7, 2026

Unemployed? Lose Weight or Die. Either Way, You’re Off the Statistics.

Britain floated weight-loss injections as a way to get people back into work. The MHRA has now received more than 158,000 suspected adverse reactions involving the drugs and reports of hundreds of fatal outcomes. Apparently there are several ways to improve the employment figures.

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vlgr Aug 6, 2026

EU Swings the Ban Hammer on AI

The European Union has finally begun applying its Artificial Intelligence Act, bringing the continent one step closer to making AI safe, transparent and pleasant. Officially it is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for AI. Citizens are now protected from manipulation, social scoring and imaginary nudes, while border-control AI has been placed on a back-burner.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?

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vlgr Jul 29, 2026

Fauci’s Diaries Belong to the Public. Von der Leyen’s Belong to History.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has introduced a dangerously old-fashioned concept into public administration: when public officials conduct public business using public infrastructure, the resulting records might actually belong to the public. Not in Europe. The more powerful the official, the more private the public business becomes.

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vlgr Jul 27, 2026

Trump Mobilises Private Capital. China Is the Capital. Von der Leyen Mobilises the Taxpayer.

Trump got private companies to risk their own money on new nuclear technology. China deploys state capital like a corporation with territorial ambitions. Europe has discovered a third economic system: taxpayers assume the risk and the investition so Brussels can announce that investment has been successfully mobilised.