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Good point. For reference, from the OP article:

Mark Rutte, in response to Donald Trump’s demands for a 5% target – suggests member states agree to raise defence spending to 3.5% of their GDP and commit a further 1.5% to wider security spending.

I can totally see Trump agreeing to get his 5% if part of it will be spent on climate adaptation and mitigation, or infrastructure in the "hostile and abusive" EU.

BTW: 3.5% is still more than any NATO country spends on R&D, maybe except of the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_research_and_development_spending

I understand that there are real threats in Europe. But... 5 fckn percent as a (!) minimum? None NATO country spends more than 3.5% on research and development (the only countries that do are South Korea and Israel). And that is everything from new medicines to new bombs to 5G to anthropology to climate science research. And now each and every country is supposed to spend more on tanks and guns and drones only? Play it smart, not hard, please...

Pls let's discuss this topic after they make their minds ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I get your point for Samsung, but % do not add up.

Maybe first put a carbon tax on fuels used in aviation? LOL

Petrol is reasonable, depending on how it is rolled out. The heating should be fixed by the state and the EU, not taxed. Like heating networks and heat pumps.

The narrative that the EU targets China in a way somehow analogous to Trump is also weird. It just follows a clearly defined law. There was an actual investigation on who and how makes competition unequal to EU company, not claims out of nowhere as in the US.

Let's talk about others. I invite the Dutch people to tell us who they would like to see rise in this election.

PVV has been dropping in polls for more than a year now. Let's hope this is the last time they are in a ruling coalition.

I don't get it. What should the brexiters railing about Poles make others realise? That if you are rich, you destroy vocational schools to get richer, get people from abroad to do basic service and construction jobs that almost nobody in your country is educated to perform, and then make them the scapegoat once your own policies fail the people?

And in a generally quite good journal....

Well, science hippies and their humour ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, not that worse things haven't passed the peer review...

Links or it didn't go through the peer review