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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It’s a bit premature to announce this, but yes VonderLeyen has announced the preparation of a defense package of approx. 700 B via this legal fiscal venue. Together with the EU Competitiveness Compass plan at around a minimum of 750 B, they will likely be aimed to reinforce each other. In addition, other parallel plans are being prepared, pending current developments.

    added: Context: EU defense is now at 326 B in 2024 (consilium EU). Though Europe also includes UK and other countries ofcourse.

    This newly announced extra package is like a minimum extra budget.



  • join the EU.

    We’ll see how it will go. The EU is made up of onion layers, each more integrated. There should be one which shouldn’t take too much time. The current tailored CETA agreement is:

    ● it eliminates duties on 99% of all tariff lines, of which 98% were scrapped when it provisionally entered into force;

    ● it defends the Geographical Indications, and;

    ● it improves and secures companies’ access to the services market.

    And, security wise, we ( EU &Canada) are also NATO allies already. Canada has also a lot of goodwill, specially in Northern Europe

    Edited: sorry first link was EU link, edited to more neutral wiki)











  • I recently saw several reports on the population of Donetsk & Luhansk. Seems that polls were falsified from the start of the invasion there, and also that right now a big majority of citizens (75%) in that region, wish to join Ukraine again. They now dislike their RuZ liberators. Anyone, seen something like this too?

    Edit: This info would probably have impact for the future border RF<> U.A. negotiations. The Krimm shows similar trends, but I imagine most know that already.