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EIB to sign framework deal with Canada on critical raw materials Deal marks concrete step toward closer ties between the EU and Canada.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

Dump Trump’s USA and rejoin the European Union. Rejoin our actual friends, neighbours and most important trading partners. Retake our place as one of the biggest and most influential members of the richest trading bloc in the world.

Digital sovereignty is no longer optional. Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia and Japan already offer alternatives to US Big Tech. #DigitalSovereignty #BuyEuropean

The best day to break free from US big tech (google, meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, X, ..) was years ago. The second best day is TODAY, not tomorrow. For example there are great European messagers*, but also Signal (although 🇺🇸) is WAY more preferable then Meta * buy-european.net/en/alternati...

Swedish Government Offices ban AI services Chat GPT and Claude www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/chat...

True. Switch to 🇪🇺 or non-bigtech competitors. And maybe even more important: urge your company, sports club, favorite brands, news outlets, ngo’s, church and others, to do so too. For example, remind them to stop promoting disinformation platform X on the bottom of every newsletters and website.

LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files 🖊️ Italo Vignoli Microsoft’s exit from desktop publishing puts decades of documents at risk. Free software offers a path forward. fossforce.com/2026/10/libr...

🇨🇦 Mark Carney says he’s "concerned" about Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, which led to human casualties and reduced Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. He says Canada can’t rely on a single provider that could flip like that and put Canadians at risk, so he’s going to diversify.

Leonardo, Rheinmetall secure $4 billion contracts with Italian Army, report says Italy’s Leonardo and Germany’s Rheinmetall have secured, through their joint venture, two contracts with the Italian Army worth $4.16 billion in total for armored vehicles, Italy’s MF newspaper reported on Thursday.

Move away from U.S. Technology, as they can turn it off at any time. European alternatives for digital products 📎 european-alternatives.eu

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

It's not all gloom and doom. A Eutelsat spokesperson said, in 2025: “We have deployed and continue to operate hundreds of terminals across Ukraine and the Black Sea.” The report also noted that Kyivstar had been testing OneWeb with Ukraine’s military. www.reuters.com/technology/s...

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Since the start of Russia's war of aggression in 2022, the EU and its member states have committed more than €200 billion to Ukraine. But is EU aid to Ukraine really just a one-way street? ▶️ Watch our video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST3...

Parliament has set priorities for high-speed rail across the EU, calling for adequate funding in the next long-term EU budget and affordable, transparent ticketing. They also stress rail’s strategic role in achieving climate neutrality. Learn more: link.europa.eu/gVKGqv

Parliament has agreed on its position ahead of negotiations on new EU rules covering waste from packaging, batteries, textiles, footwear, electronics and single-use plastics. Learn more ➡️ link.europa.eu/6CcRXR

Big news for travellers in the EU! Parliament ensured stronger and more consistent rights, whether you choose to travel by air, rail, sea, inland waterway, or bus. The new rules will offer passengers, faster compensation, clearer procedures, more support for persons with disabilities.

The Arctic is Europe's northern neighbourhood. Today, we present our new Strategy for the Arctic to strengthen cooperation on: 🛡️ Security 🌍 Climate 🌱 Prosperity 🤝 Local communities For a safer, more resilient Arctic.

€390 million for a greener Europe 💚 🇪🇺 We're investing in 135 new projects through the LIFE Programme to: 🏞️protect biodiversity 🌍tackle climate change ⚡️power up the clean energy transition Adding €189 million from project partners, the impact is set to go even further. More 👉 link.europa.eu/nxdw66

Britain cannot deal effectively with geopolitical crises without rejoining EU, says thinktank ‘Sovereignty without the ability to act on it is not autonomy,’ paper by Institute for Public Policy Research says

Still happy I moved from Google to Proton last year. Cannot wait for the proton drive app release on Linux. #proton pr.tn/ref/6V6RRWS4

This sounds like a lot of money. But it’s €3 per person in the EU - to get rid of Amazon, Microsoft, Google from government and business. With current prices, that sounds like one of the best deals ever. www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaa...

Better pay ✅ A contract that lasts ✅ Hours that fit your life ✅ That's a "good job". But not everyone has these conditions. Our new Employment and Social Outlook shows progress across the EU, but more needs to be done. That's why we'll present our Quality Jobs Act later this year.

🆕: Europe’s 1st geostationary sounder enters service today! 🛰️ The satellite - renamed as 'Meteosat-13' - will detect signs of atmospheric instability even before clouds form: "Forecasters will see weather risks earlier... and that saves lives," says EUMETSAT DG Phil Evans: bit.ly/4zshitH

I regret to inform everyone that, I, too, did not receive a Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishments that exist only in my imagination. I ask for grace and understanding during this difficult time.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. She served as a judge on the International Criminal Court. The Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote that “peace requires justice.” www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/ann...

We are digging for gallium 🪽 👀 Finding critical raw materials for smartphones or medical devices is tough. Ad now, we have selected strategic projects to boost extraction, processing and recycling – so we can keep powering everday life 👇 link.europa.eu/CdCpMP

Today marks a new milestone for Europe in space. 🇪🇺🛰️ We unveil the first images from sentinel 3C a landmark moment for #CopernicusEU and for Europe’s ambition in space. European investment delivers knowledge, resilience and benefits for our citizens. #DGDefis @esa.int @eumetsat.int

“Mistral said ML4 was trained from scratch over two months on 4,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in its own European data centres. ML4 covers more than 160 languages, including every official EU language, and works across Latin and non-Latin scripts.”

🇪🇺 🇩🇪 planqc wins the 2026 Made in Europe Award for commercialising quantum computing. The German company is building 100-qubit and 1,000-qubit systems for European research infrastructure. #EU #Germany #planqc #QuantumComputing #QuantumInsider thequantuminsider.com/2026/10/05/m...

🇪🇺 Von der Leyen: €300 billion in European savings flown overseas every year, primarily to the US, will be invested in Europe from now on. A direct consequence of Trump's trade war with the world.

A study by three Spanish institutions shows how specific hippocampal neurons preserve past memories even as new information about those events is stored.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have created a sugar-coated nanoparticle that blocks COVID-19 from infecting cells with 99% effectiveness in lab tests. This isn't a vaccine. It's a decoy. And it could change how we fight viruses forever.

European Space Agency taps OVHcloud and CGI for Earth observation system. Digital EO will provide Earth observation data to scientists, public bodies, businesses, and citizens. #MartinBroughton #ESA #OVHcloud #EuropeanSpaceflight #Technology #Space www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/euro...

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.

EU to Trump: We will keep pushing for global AI safety rules EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said Washington’s opposition to global AI regulations won’t stop Brussels from moving forward on a new international safety system.

youtu.be/SzlhO20QpGw I fucking love Poland's message to Russia 👍

The European Union and the Philippines announced a new free trade deal on Tuesday in the latest bilateral agreement struck by Brussels as it seeks to diversify its economy as tensions persist with traditional trading partners including China, Russia and the United States.

Countries simply cannot afford the risk of using software that a foreign government could shut down at any time, as happened with the international criminal court.

The digital euro made its debut in wholesale financial markets on Monday as the European Central Bank launched a system for tokenised payments between banks.

South Korea opens door to joining EU secure satellite system It would be the first Asian country to join the constellation

disconnect.blog/getting-off-... incentivising more non-US options by leaving US tech

The European Commission and the Republic of Korea have agreed to strengthen cooperation on secure satellite connectivity and explore future integration with IRIS², the EU’s planned secure connectivity satellite constellation.

Canada in talks to join EU's Erasmus+ exchanges programme Ottawa and Brussels are in talks for Canada to join the Erasmus+ exchange programme, which would let students from both sides study at each other's universities.