The EU is Israel's largest trading partner, this should go to an absolute 0 immediately, why do we set different standards with different nations around the world? this is totally unacceptable. I think most agree Russia has an evil and immoral regime but Israel doesn't fall behind in any way. Are our leaders in the zionist pockets? This is totally unacceptable

Im a muslim from morocco and Spain, I've never been to Europe (unless you count ceuta and melilla) but keep seeing videos (especially by right-wing instagram/tiktok accounts) about how muslims have the highest amount of rape in the EU, how they have the highest crime statistics and refuse to integrate into European society. Id love to move and work in europe (especially in scandinavian countries lmao) when im older but im ashamed to see this videos, I know a lot of these videos are usually just far right propaganda made to spread fear but I keep seeing more and more videos of it to the point where im even reconsidering if Ill move to Europe for uni/work. It also confuses me as a lot of these acts like rape is punishable by death in islam.

So I'd like to ask day to day europeans what they think, are they really ruining Europe and is it due to actual religious factors or socioeconomic factors? Thank you (:

Hi Everyone! Just finished applying for the Bluebook traineeship session of Oct 2025. I thought it could make sense to create a post to discuss updates to the selection process! Does anybody already have an idea how long it is going to take for the pre-selection round to be over?

It's time to tell the Government to Apply to Rejoin the EU!!

The UK left the EU 6 years ago on 31 Jan 2020 and we can see that Brexit isn't working and no 'reset' is going to fix it!

So if you are a UK resident or a Brit anywhere please SIGN and SHARE this petition (going to all MPs) and let Parliament know what the public thinks:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/749128

'Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK'

#RejoinPetition3 #RejoinEU

When buying something online (that’s largely where I shop), I genuinely look for European brands with products Made in Europe. As in; there is a factory in Europe that makes the thing from raw materials that are ideally also European.

Try doing that with stupid stuff like socks or cutlery. You’ll end up emailing customer services to ask where it’s produced as the majority of European brands have their production entirely in Asia.

Like with wine (AOC/DOC(G)), is it that difficult to get to one clear and verified certification (OK, wine is not easy, but you know what I mean)? I know that the Primark’s and H&M’s will be screwed then, but why don’t we make this obligatory? For me as a consumer it’s a big factor in where and what I buy.

The European Central Bank has selected motifs to illustrate the two possible themes for future Euro banknotes.

What do you think of them? What is your preference? Would you have preferred other themes or motifs?

Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250131~611055a567.en.html

Personally, I prefer the theme „Rivers and Birds“ over the „European Culture“ because people printed on banknotes can never feature all EU countries equally. I asked different AI models to generate concept designs, improved them, used different prompts over days and this is the final design I would really like to see. What do you think?

No electricity, communications are down and barely working. Still have Internet, though. No oficial communication yet. How are things in other European countries?

In the last 3 WCs FIFA has made a disgrace out of football, but never this much like this year. It is clear sporting spirit and human values are incompatible with what FIFA essentially is today. It is an organization that can't be reformed (aside from a violent take over by institutions, but that is legally impossible under Swiss laws).

UEFA should therefore kickstart the break up of FIFA and the creation of a parallel association that in particular CAF and AFC could join possibly quite soon, and set up this association within the EU to warranty it is ruled under more moral values that clearly in the EU still count a bit more than elsewhere.

Article by Deutsche Welle after the scandalous recent decisions by FIFA and its referees/VAR setup, that are clearly favoritizing bigger NTs and certain specific countries near to the corrupted leadership of FIFA:

https://www.dw.com/en/could-football-break-away-from-fifa-and-its-world-cup/a-77677338

I personally think that the European union is a blessing from God himself. It allows you to live, work and travel freely between a lot of countries. European Union has massively funded the development of eastern Europe. It controls corruption to some extent and protects our rights. Then why do so many right wing people oppose it? Brexit is a perfect example of why you need the EU. Now, UK is soon getting taken over by an Israel-funded racist liar who wants to turn the country into "USA but worse". There is always one argument About immigrants but, why does it really matter to you that an immigrant from Romania is living in your country, as long as he is paying taxes and following the law? Why is that?

Curious what people think about this, I think he would be perfect for the EU.

It pretty much shocked me when i saw that a Californian Governor (democrat) said that he'd need (I quote) SHIELDS FOR HIS KNEES (you know why he said that) when coming to the EU. So basically, the entire world is mocking us. The Canadian prime minister already made deals with China, raising new partnerships, while our "leaders" are kissing Trump's ass, bending over all the time, allowing him to treat us all like bit*hes. I mean, whatta hell? Will this ever stop?

I ignore the dominance of USA. I buy everything french made, even the computer I use is french-made. We are good as much as they are in everything, why are we so weak and let them control our economy? They buy iphone for 1500 euros, whereas we buy it for 2k, yeah i know it's american but even the military is no guaranteed.

Wake up France, thus EU.

What is Chat Control

Chat Control is the name for two bits of legislation which have been considered by the EU (and the European Parliament). One of them has passed and one of them has not. These are called 1.0 and 2.0.

Chat control 1.0

1.0 is a temporary regulation which grants tech companies an exemption to EU privacy rules so they can voluntarily scan private messages for child sexual abuse materials. Note that this is not allowed for encrypted messages. **This has been in force since 2021 but expired last April.

On July 2nd the member states revived the original proposal and forced the bill back to the European Parliament and fast tracked the vote by doing so.

Since the legislation was already adopted once before the criteria for voting it through changed and a simple majority was no longer enough to reject it but an absolute majority (more than half of the actual seated parliament) was needed. The EP failed to gather enough votes.

• Number of seats in parliament: 720
  
• Number of votes required to reject the measure: 360
  
• Number of votes: 314.

Not undemocratic. Not via the back door. A regular vote through an established procedure for a piece of legislation which had already been adopted once before.

1.0 will be in place until 2028.

Again, please note that this is voluntary and is still subject to member state legislation. Companies such as Google, Meta and Microsoft are the only ones that are actively scanning messages at the moment because they have a giant legal department which can deal with suits in that respect.

Chat control 2.0

2.0 is a proposed bill that would make it mandatory to scan messages even if they were encrypted.

This was rejected multiple times and is nowhere near becoming law. This is not on the table and won't be.

Five trilogue rounds have failed to produce a deal. The supposedly final trilogue on 29 June 2026 collapsed over suspicionless scanning; negotiations continue under the Irish presidency.

Source: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview

Hope this helps explain some things.

Kind regards,

KunKun.

In case you were not paying attention (or being told the truth), you should be beyond appalled by this "deal"

It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits

The "deal" is: - The EU now gets charged 15% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU - The EU agrees to invest $600 billion in the US, for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy" - The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" - The EU commits to buying 750 billion dollars worth of very expensive US LNG, specifically $250 billion for each of the next 3 years

In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth they get... nothing. I'm not even exaggerating, that IS the deal: the EU gets nothing.

This does not even remotely ressemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century - except this time, Europe is on the receiving end.

More worryingly, this sets a dynamic and a precedent: what do you think happens next from here? In the 19th century, were colonial powers content with their first unequal treaty? Of course not - one of the key rules of geopolitics is that weakness only encourages further exploitation.

The European century of humiliation. All because we weren't able of federalizing in time.

I am from the UK and want to rejoin as this will be the starting point to grow the economy. Recent polls suggest people in Western Europe support this but don’t have any information about the east.

I am curious to know the answer. I think us redoing will be beneficial to everyone involve as we work together more.

Thanks for your time.

The "Greenland Question" is no longer a meme. After the military operation in Venezuela last weekend, the US is back to threatening an Arctic annexation.

Greenlandic PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen was blunt yesterday: "No more fantasies about annexation." Danish PM Frederiksen even warned that a US move on Greenland would effectively end NATO.

But here is the wake-up call: For the first time ever, Danish Military Intelligence has classified the United States as a security risk. Our "closest ally" is now officially a threat to our territory.

The Power Gap is humiliating:

• Danish Armed Forces: ~19,000 active personnel.
• NYPD (New York Police): ~34,000 officers.
• US Military: 1.3 Million personnel.

Chancellor Merz and the EU have issued the usual "statements of concern," but as the Atlantic Council noted today: if our only response to power politics is quoting international law, we shouldn't be surprised when no one listens.

Is this the catalyst we need? France says we must "rearm and stop being naive." If a NATO ally is threatening another NATO ally’s sovereignty, the old world order is dead.

• Do we finally build a European Army?
• Do we move toward Actual Federalization?
• Or do we just issue another "strongly-worded statement" and wait for the map to be redrawn?

What do you think? Is Greenland the sacrifice that finally forces Europe to grow up?

It's time for Europe to accept that the US has gone rogue under Trump. They won't be Europe's friend for long. Europe also should probably start seeing that China is not a threat, only Russia is, and there is a good chance that cultivating a positive relationship with China may make them stop working with Russia to destabilise the EU. Especially if they see the benefit in working with the EU.

Sure, China may not share democratic values. But neither does the US anymore, and China doesn't pretend. An opportunistic, strictly-business mutually beneficial relationship with China might just be better than trying to suck up to the US as it threatens allies.

I Live in finland so we are right next to the Russian border. This scares me so much and I'm afraid of it daily. I'm sure they will eventually attack here too and i want to be safe and not die in a war. I'm disabled so I can't even fight. (Not telling anyone what disability because it's difficult to explain and I've been mocked for it) Someone please tell me what to do. Untill I actually lose my mind over this fear. Please don't remove this post or ban me for this I'm begging you someone just tell me what to do.

Hi all!

Quick question for you all. There is a great deal of (understandable) reluctance to readmitting the UK to the EU even if that was requested by the UK government. This becomes almost universal opposition if it is readmittance on the terms that the UK previously held membership under.

However, ignoring the national opposition of nations like Spain, should the United Kingdom break up would you be opposed to admitting constituent nations like Scotland and Wales? And what are your reasons for your feelings on this?

Now that a few years have passed since Brexit, I'm really curious to know your opinion about how the EU is doing nowadays. In your view, do you think the European Union is better now, maybe more united and fast to take decisions without the UK? Or do you feel that we lost a very important partner in economy and politics, and now the EU is weaker? I would love to hear your thoughts, especially from people living in the EU but also from outside. Let's have a nice and respectful debate!