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Staaten verlieren Macht: Ursula von der Leyen leitet radikale EU-Reform ein.

Was will sie denn machen?

Von der Leyen will die Mitgliedsstaaten „zur Umsetzung wichtiger Wirtschaftsreformen drängen, wenn sie Zugang zum 1,2 Billionen Euro umfassenden EU-Geldtopf für sieben Jahre erhalten wollen“, berichtet das amerikanische Magazin Politico. Das Magazin, das den entsprechenden Plan gesehen hat, schreibt, dass die Staaten „zunehmende Hürden“ überwinden werden müssen, um im nächsten Haushaltsplan an ihr Geld zu kommen. Es geht um die Jahre von 2028 bis 2034.
Ihr ahnt vermutlich schon, was da auf uns zu schwappt.
Die größte Veränderung der aktuellen Regeln besteht darin, dass die Länder das Geld nur erhalten, wenn sie die von Brüssel geforderten Reformen durchführen. Diese Reformen werden in der Regel als Austeritätsprogramme umgesetzt.
Na endlich! Genau was die EU braucht! Mehr Austerität! Guckt nur, wie gut das den Griechen geholfen hat!
Zu den Bedingungen sollen Werte wie Geschlechtergleichheit oder ökologischer Landbau gehören.
Wieso Geschlechtergerechtigkeit? Damit sie lügen können, das habe was mit Orban zu tun. Tatsächlich geht es aber um:
Laut Politico „bestehen anhaltende Befürchtungen, dass die Haushaltsumstrukturierung der Kommission ein Ablenkungsmanöver ist, um bestehende Programme zu kürzen und Geld für neue Prioritäten wie Verteidigung und industriellen Aufbau umzuleiten“. So sieht der Haushaltsrahmen der Kommission die Zusammenlegung von einem Dutzend verschiedener Geldtöpfe für Forschung, Verteidigung und Innovation zu einem einzigen „Europäischen Fonds für Wettbewerbsfähigkeit“ vor.
Wer braucht schon Forschung oder Innovation, wenn man auch Rüstungsgüter kaufen kann?

Win-Win sozusagen! Also für die Amis. Die Europäer fallen als Konkurrent aus und die Amis müssen weniger Bomben bezahlen.

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Today in TLD shenanigans: dot io is being killed off

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Wishing a very pleasant rebranding to all techbros who squatted their web site in an unrelated nation because it made a good pun.

On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. The islands would be handed over to the neighboring island country of Mauritius, about 1,100 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa. [...]

Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code "IO" from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones.

But stick around for the history lesson of the Slovenian Domain Heist!

Slovenian academics traveled to Serbia at the end of 1992. Their destination was the University of Belgrade in the country's capital. On arrival, they broke into the university and stole all the hosting software and domain records for the .yu top-level domain -- everything they needed to seize control. For the next two years, the .yu domain was unofficially operated by ARNES (Academic and Research Network of Slovenia), which repeatedly denied its involvement in the original heist. ARNES rejected all requests by Serbian institutions for new domains, severely limiting the country's ability to participate in the growing internet community. The situation became so messy that, in 1994, IANA founding manager Jon Postel personally stepped in and overrode IANA regulations, forcibly transferring ownership of the .yu domain back to the University of Belgrade. [...]

The IANA may fudge its own rules and allow .io to continue to exist. Money talks, and there is a lot of it tied up in .io domains. However, the history of the USSR and Yugoslavia still looms large, and the IANA may feel that playing fast and loose with top-level domains will only come back to haunt it.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

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'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in literally any context. In fact, if anyone sends hatemail, it's going to be my response.


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