1/ G7 countries have agreed that no single country should supply more than 60% of their imports of critical minerals by 2030 in a effort to reduce their reliance on China
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The Group of Seven countries have agreed that no single country should supply more than 60% of their imports of rare earths by 2030 in an effort to reduce their reliance on China.
The point that billionaires, categorically, are antithetical to liberal democracy and small-r republicanism does not get made enough. I think it is the most important point regarding them.
The same frugals that complied with Trump’s orders to increase defence spending for NATO to 5% GDP, screaming blue murder over an increase from 1,1% to 1,26%. Ultimately it is not about money, but about power: national leaders are determined to curtail the EU
Siempre en el equipo de Patri. No suelo hablar de trabajo por aquí, pero hacer Axis ha estado chulísimo. Gracias a ella, a @xanlopez.net, a @esantiago.bsky.social y a todos los que han participado en él y no tengo por aquí. Tema apasionante y crucial. axishorizonteindustrial.es
IEA said Iran War created the worst fossil-fuel disruption in history. Price of oil stayed below $150.
Why? Biggest reason: China cut its demand by 5 million barrels a day.
Some say it's a mystery. But @davidfickling.bsky.social says public data explains it.
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It’s the biggest conundrum in the world economy right now: How has China managed to go on an oil detox?
📸 @groizard.bsky.social, secretario de Estado de Energía. Fotografías para #Axis, proyecto de la European Climate Foundation y @somosharmon.bsky.social
Un lujazo siempre estar en el equipo de @upebecares.bsky.social y Laura Zamarriego.
The #EUCO 🇪🇺summit has just ended, and northern leaders have used their closing press conferences to bash the Commission's proposed EU budget increase.
They keep tasking the EU with new things to do, but then they refuse to pay for it.
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EU national leaders keep saying they want a union that “does more.” Then they show up in Brussels asking it to spend less.
I tried to explain to myself the behaviour of some people who only seem to reheat one another's ideas — and are the same people still on X today, irrespective of political alignment.
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I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today. Here, I try to understand what grounds their epistemology and it...
It must be said they still got 34,5% of the vote while doing all this. Deeply disturbing.
Hoy es un buen día para recordar aquellos fantásticos artículos que insistían en que la economía de guerra rusa iba a crecer como un tiro, que Ucrania estaba condenada, y que Europa se dirigía al colapso económico por no permanecer neutral.
GOOD MORNING. Andy Burnham has triumphed in Makerfield. Nigel Farage has been brutally humiliated. The sun is shining and the world is a beautiful place iandunt.substack.com/p/triumph-in...
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The moment a storage tank at the Moscow oil refinery was hit: the blast blew the tank's lid off.
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Text of my letter to the editor of @economist.com here.
