I’m sure if we all dunk on it they’ll start to give more.

More context: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/gaia-x-is-an-expensive-distraction/

And that’s a 2/3 majority of seats, right? Not votes, not popular support.

Oh ha! I completely misinterpreted your comment, sorry about that 😆

Isn’t this article literally about Von der Leyen using it as a bargaining chip?

Ah and they get to do the thing with their hands of course, so that’s neat.

Wait what why

Other way around - the lion on yellow is Flanders (Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), the rooster is Wallonia (French-speaking part of Belgium).

Same about the English one.

Protesting against the actions of your fellow voters is not a protest against democracy - it’s asking them to vote differently. Protesting against their right to vote is protesting against democracy.

…and the rest of the world’s faces while they’re at it, unfortunately.

No no no, they’ll clearly each have 35 children - arranged in a rectangle of one child by 35.

And even then far from all of them.

So I guess the question is… Next time someone (who?) is looking for an easy way to find software projects - will they use this portal? Will they be able to even find it, and if they do, will it help them find the software they need? Will it prevent people from re-implementing software, and if it does, will it move them to support an existing project, or just not do anything at all?

Sorry, I guess that’s actually a bunch of questions :P But I’m not optimistic about the answers to them, and then my automatic next question is: I wonder how much it has cost to build this?

This looks like the classic type of EU portal of which I can only wonder… Who will actually use this?

The other two are also not so much in jail, as it is that she’s forced to wear an ankle bracelet, as per your link.

Geez yeah.

But 21st Europe says [a European Union initiative which aims to unify infrastructure across the continent] lacks “ambition and design”

…but at least it’s real.

(By the random guy who started the project, that is.)

They called it the “Rutte doctrine” in the Netherlands, under previous prime minister (and current NATO chief) Mark Rutte, if you need a male example.

Follow The Money is a highly respected Dutch investigative journalism organisation, for what it’s worth.

Honestly the biggest takeaway for me is that apparently, they talk like this in private as well. In other words, they do seem to actually believe what they say. Or at least believe that they have to keep up appearances to each other.