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Concerns Over Climate Finance Negotiations at COP29 in Baku

Concerns Arise Over COP29 Negotiating Text in Baku The latest draft of the negotiating text, released on Thursday by the COP Presidency, has sparked considerable debate among delegates and observers here in Baku. This new document underscores several unresolved issues, including the criteria for what qualifies as part of the annual climate finance figure, the identity of contributing nations, and…

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I stg none of yall have ever met a teenager in a normal setting where you're not teaching them or being a random relative figure 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 did we forget about gamers?????!! I have a minecraft friend that has a software engineering company at age 18 because he got so into minecraft modding as a tween (a thing you can only really do on the full pc version of minecraft, btw). But clearly fearmongering about how the youth is ALL stupid is more important than considering things in a balanced way

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Spain's Partido Popular (PP) was foolish if it thought that European People's Party (EPP) leader Manfred Weber would break the grand coalition with the S&D and Liberals in the European Parliament in exchange for torpedoing future commissioner Teresa Ribera, Ignacio Molina, an expert on EU politics, told Euractiv.es. Molina is a senior researcher and EU policy expert at the Real Instituto Elcano, one of Spain's most prestigious think tanks. After a tense week in which the formation of the second European Commission, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, was up in the air because of the PP's veto on Ribera, the grand coalition of the EPP and the Socialist Group (S&D) with the Liberals has been saved, but at the cost of many wounds, Molina warned. “If the PP really thought that they were capable of convincing the EPP to veto Ribera and thus break the grand coalition, they were really fooling themselves,” Molina told Euractiv.es. An agreement was finally announced last Wednesday between the EPP, S&D, and Renew Europe leaders, paving the way for the second von der Leyen team to be sworn in this week. Ribera will be the future commissioner for competition and vice president for a clean, fair, and competitive transition. “It is likely that this week, the PP will abstain (in the vote on the new Commission). We will have to see to what extent they maintain their hard-line or accept the path of pragmatism which Weber has imposed by not wanting to break the grand coalition with the S&D group,” Molina stressed. According to the expert, although the PSOE and the PP have on many occasions coordinated their positions and voted together in the European Parliament, in the case of Ribera, the positions have become highly polarised, weakening this “unity”, which does not exist in Madrid, Molina recalled.

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Wjhy do they call the PP centre-right. It's not. It's right-wing to the core. They even go into coalition with the far-right Vox on both a regional and national level.

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Von der Leyen will miss EU top job gender balance target

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Il FUTURO DELL’ITALIA CON IL PNRR

Il PNRR non è un programma di spesa ma un progetto per raggiungere risultati e obiettivi: una leva economica per realizzare riforme necessarie per il Paese. L’Italia dovrà gestire 222,1 mld di euro fino al 2026 e predisporre interventi su lavoro, digitalizzazione, transizione green, mobilità, trasporti, istruzione e formazione per donne e giovani.

La soglia di povertà in Italia dal 3,3% nel 2005 è passata al 7,7% nel 2019 con un picco del 9,4% nel 2020. Il Paese con il Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza dovrà intervenire su lavoro, digitalizzazione, transizione verde, mobilità, trasporti, istruzione, formazione, inserimento al lavoro di donne e giovani, dove l’occupazione femminile è al 53,8% contro una media europea del 67,3%. Tra le missioni del Piano ci sono l’inclusione sociale, la coesione e la sostenibilità per attuare riforme strutturali di cui il Paese ha bisogno.

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Morocco, EU's key Partner, European Commissioner

Morocco is a “key partner” of the European Union (EU) in migration management, with which it maintains “solid and reliable” cooperation, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said on Tuesday in Brussels. “Morocco is a very important partner for us in managing migration together,” stressed Johansson at a press briefing dedicated to the presentation of the EU’s new action plan for…

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The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 8.3% in 2023 as a surge in renewable energy installations helped displace coal.

This means the bloc’s emissions have declined 37% since 1990, while its economy has grown 68% over the same period.

The divergence indicates “the continued decoupling of emissions and economic growth,” the European Commission said in an update, adding that the region is on track to reach its target of reducing emissions by at least 55% by 2030.

According to an analysis by the European Environment Agency, based only on existing climate measures and planned actions, the EU will reduce its emissions by 49% by 2030.

Electricity and heating lead the way

Emissions from electricity production and heating under the region’s emissions trading system (ETS) dropped 24% in 2023, compared to the previous year, per the Commission.

Set up in 2005, the ETS is widely viewed as a key driver of the bloc’s decarbonisation. In 2023, it generated revenues of €43.6 billion in 2023 for climate action investments.

However, some sectors are still moving in the wrong direction. For instance, aviation emissions grew 9.5% last year as the sector continued to rebound in the wake of the pandemic.

More to be done

“The EU is leading the way in the clean transition, with another year of strong greenhouse gas emission reductions in 2023,” said Wopke Hoekstra, commissioner for climate action.

“As we head off soon to COP29, we once again demonstrate to our international partners that it is possible to take climate action and invest in growing our economy at the same time,” Hoekstra added. “Sadly, the report also shows that our work must continue, at home and abroad, as we are seeing the harm that climate change is causing our citizens.”

In a separate statement, Leena Ylä-Mononen, executive director of the European Environment Agency, said climate change impacts were “accelerating”, meaning the bloc needed to become more resilient to extreme weather while also slashing emissions.

In the second quarter of 2024, renewables accounted for 52% of all electricity generated in the EU, a 6 percentage point increase in a year. Nuclear generation was up slightly and comprised 24% of the mix, meaning clean sources made up 76% of the region’s total electrical output.

-via The Progress Playbook, November 1, 2024

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TikTok vietato ai dipendenti pubblici. Solo da ora?

Solo io trovo assolutamente normale che TikTok – così come il profilo personale personale esistente su ogni altro social network – non debba trovare posto sui dispositivi dei dipendenti pubblici che hanno accesso ai sistemi dell’ente per cui lavorano? Ovviamente stiamo parlando di dispositivi “aziendali” e non di quelli privati, che non accedono ai servizi di telefonia mobile degli enti pubblici.…

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2023 KINKTOBER︰10﹒01 / 10﹒02

꒰ —♡ B R E E D I N G ﹒ PART 1 ꒱

EVENT MASTERLIST !

FEATURING ! ayato, xiao, diluc, kuronushi x fem!reader

WARNINGS ! breeding obviously, shibari, some anal, cum overflow :0, overstimulation, praising, think that's all + VERY SHORT HELP

NOTE ! like only one of these were proofread LMAO anyway~ splitting this into 2 because i couldn't make the time to finish all 8 of the characters 😭 + THANK YOU FOR 700?!?!?! + sorry to those i couldn't tag :( and for posting this late omg

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he's a very family oriented man, you're well aware of that, so of course it's no surprise that breeding is one of the commissioner's top kinks. even just the mere thought of filling up your cute little cunt with his seed is enough to drive him insane.

"you're gonna give me an heir, yeah? right, my love?" ayato seductively whispered into your ear as you tiredly nod your head in approval. he has been pounding into you nonstop for the past 2 hours or so, filling you up with his cum over and over again, making sure that it'll reach your womb. "you feel so good~ this is your reward for being such a good girl for me, so take it. take it all~" his thrusts begin to quicken, urging yet another orgasm for him and yourself before grabbing your ankles to bring your legs over onto his shoulders; allowing him to push his dick even deeper than it was already reaching previously.

"fuck—i'm sorry for pushing your limits, sweetheart, but i won't waste my chance in finally getting to breed you real nice~"

—XIAO

him being a yaksha and practically spending his whole life fighting; xiao never really got to know or experience much when it comes to intimacy. but god, the moment you stepped into his life, it became the thing he couldn't live without.

"o-one more, please..." he groans out, thrusting deep into you at a slow pace, his tip kissing at your cervix ever so slightly. your whimpers and pleas falling onto deaf ears as his gaze was fixated on the way your thighs trembled under his touch as his hands kept your legs spread wide just for him, drunk on the sight of his cock disappearing within your warmth with each buck of his hips. an obvious squelching sound could be heard along with the mix of your fluids overflowing from the sides, "if i pull out, it'll all go to waste, won't it?" xiao mutters out, pulling back until only the head of his cum coated cock remained, just to slam back inside and have you scream his name for the nth time that evening.

"this won't be enough, baby... need to fill you up some more~"

—DILUC RAGNVINDR

trust me when i say that breeding is one of his top kinks, probably around the top 3, i'm sure of it :3 he just adores how pretty you look taking every single drop of his seed; the way you look so perfectly fucked out is enough to bring another feeling of euphoria to him.

"m-my love, so pretty~" diluc's eyes were focused on your trembling figure beneath him, cunt already completely full of his cum yet he's still pumping more and more inside for 'good measure' as per his words. "i know you're tired, i'm sorry—you feel too good for me to... pull out-ah~" the sensitive head of his cock kissed all the deepest parts of you with ease; giving you so much more pleasure, along with the way he was constantly pushing his cum back inside further.

"...so perfect for me, my good girl~"

—KURONUSHI

shibari. his specialty, his favorite. he decided to try a new position instead of the usual mating press you two did; having you situated on the bed with your ass up and face buried in the pillows while your wrists were bound by a red ribbon behind your back.

"that's it, keep moaning for me like that~" kuronushi coos, hips slamming against your body as his cock thrusted in and out of your ass at a steady rhythm, fingers rubbing roughly at your swollen clit, continuing to drive you over the edge. "fuck—your voice truly is the best instrument~ and your moans... the most majestic melody i've ever heard~" he says in between uneven breaths before finally cumming inside you, abruptly pulling out and pushing into your already filled to the brim cunt, a dark chuckle escaping his lips upon hearing you moan at the sudden entrance.

"just made sure to fill up both of your holes, love~"

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SINCE OCTOBER 7, German politicians have proposed rescinding the nationality of German citizens, restricting the civil rights of non-EU foreign residents, and limiting the number of children with a migration background who can attend any given school, which have been promoted as means for preserving and supporting “Jewish life” in the country. A German politician credibly accused of harboring neo-Nazi sympathies in his youth blamed the country’s antisemitism on immigration. Germany’s largest newspaper published a fifty-point manifesto on what it means to be German; number forty-seven reads, “Germany has a heart for children. They are not beaten but promoted.” A prominent German journalist published an article with the title: “The Jews or Aggro-Arabs: we have to decide who we want to keep.” The Anti-Semitism Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg, who is not Jewish, wrote, “The Nazis were still hiding their mass murders, whereas Hamas celebrated them in the media, like Daesh before them.”

Not everything is as it seems in Germany. That tree? It used to be a Jew. That building was once a Jew. That streetlamp was a Jew. And the Jews? It seems they’re all Germans.

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Austria's Changing Position on Romania and Bulgaria's Schengen Membership

Austria’s Stance on Romania and Bulgaria’s Schengen Membership Austria’s newly appointed EU Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, has recently advocated for the full membership of both Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen Area. For the past two years, Austria has been blocking these countries from achieving complete Schengen status, which is vital for ensuring the free movement of…

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this a view of someone who's ignored european developments since 2007, opting for a rosy, outdated view of european politics, i.e. the exact type of american committing the exact type of mistake i'm warning about.

to address this point by point: not only has inflation been a global issue, but the US has consistently enjoyed the lowest inflation of any developed economy. american CPI has remained below the british, polish, and eurozone average numbers. european economies have to deal with fallout from the russian invasion of ukraine that the us can ignore: notably, in energy prices, as the US became self-sufficient in energy (and never imported any from russia to begin with, something squeezing the german economy). america is also not hosting millions of ukrainian refugees.

when discussing european instutions—and "europe" in general—one has to be more specific. do you mean the overarching institutions of the EU, criticized for a democratic deficit that many have pinpointed as one source for euro-skepticism and the rise of the far right? the EU Council, widely ignored and headed by charles michel, an incompetent, blatant nepobaby appointment whom everyone grinds their teeth over? the EU parliament, recently filled with a fresh batch of far-right hooligans, which functions more or less as a rubber stamp for the commission? the EU commission itself, headed by VdL, the latest in a string of failed local politician commissioners (who remembers the alcoholic swindler juncker?) masquerading as technocrats? the ECB, which smothers the monetary (and through the maastricht criteria, the fiscal) policy of eurozone members, thereby fueling resentment, far-right movements, and economic disparity? and all of this held hostage by the veto of one orban or fico, —or the german supreme court, when it decides it's had enough with public investment. those institutions, which remain so opaque that even educated americans—and europeans—aren't entirely aware of their function?

or do we mean the institutions of individual countries, ranging from undemocratic autocracies like hungary to the fief of the jupiter king, who called elections in june, lost them, refused to nominate a prime minister from the winning coalition, didn't name any for over a month, and then appointed a rightwing politician from a party that scored dead last, sidestepping his own centrist party? the UK, where sir keir is handing out five years in jail time to climate protesters, raising tuition fees, relying on private investment companies, and through rachel reeves' plan to fix the alleged budget hole left by hunt before further investment, again enacting austerity? this is all front-page headline news from the last half year.

european countries indeed have cheaper healthcare costs, better pensions, and other public goods that the united states does not. when considering "quality of life," remember, however, that most european countries have unemployment rates considered astronomic in america, especially for under-35s:

to focus again and again on european social democracy is to ignore that it has been steadily eroded since the end of the cold war and especially since the great recession by neoliberal political forces that crush the left and open the door for the far right. in the most blatant example, beside's macron's legislative politricks, the IMF-ECB-EC troika cut off euro cash liquidity flow to greece when syriza was trying to undo austerity under varoufakis. the greek collapse consigned a generation to economic failure, killed seniors, and curtailed possibilities for the youth. this erosion happened even in the nordic model, long imagined by americans as nothing short of a utopia:

In part due to the scrapping of wealth and inheritance taxes and a lower corporate tax than both the U.S. and European averages, Sweden has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth in the world today: on a level with Bahrain and Oman, and worse than the United States. Perhaps most dispiriting for Sanders, Sweden also now hosts the highest proportion of billionaires per capita in the world. Many of the country’s trademark social services are now provided by private firms. Its private schools even benefit from the same level of state subsidy as public schools—a voucher system far more radical than anything in the United States and that Democratic politicians would be crucified for advocating. Both here and there, right-leaning commentators in 2020 decried Sanders’s portrait as little more than what Johan Norberg, Swedish author of The Capitalist Manifesto, has called a 1970s “pipedream.” On this, Swedish observers on the left gloomily agree: despite official rhetoric, the “Nordic welfare model” is now more nostalgic myth than reality. (x)

to problematize further, there's an unadressed first world perspective: who's getting the good quality of life, why are the main economies of the EU so wealthy, and how does the EU continue to enrich itself? there are certainly many living outdoors today, drowning in the mediterranean, or dying of exposure in białowieża. fortress europe is a crime against humanity—and it doesn't beat back the far right. it weakens civic and human rights, undermines legal oversight, and criminalizes humanitarian engagement, allowing an authoritarian creep.

you shouldn't understand the political and the historical as a snapshot in time, but as a moving train. this is the state of europe today. all of the above is necessarily a simplification and an abbreviation, but there's a trajectory you can begin to trace out: given all of the above, where do you think europe is headed?

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The European Union's decision to name a Hungarian as its health commissioner has raised eyebrows in his country, which itself has crumbling hospitals and no health minister. The nomination of Oliver Varhelyi, an ally of Hungary's nationalist ruling party, to the health portfolio in the bloc's new executive commission last week cast a harsh spotlight on the country's own much-criticised public health system. "If the goal is to help the member states of the European Union with ideas to destroy the health sector, to ransack it... then it was a great idea" to nominate Varhelyi, Zoltan Tarr, an EU lawmaker from Hungary's opposition, told local media. Hungary's public health system has been under scrutiny since opposition leader Peter Magyar -- a former ally turned critic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban -- started touring hospitals this summer to denounce their "deplorable" conditions. Magyar accuses Orban of "systematically underfunding and dismantling public healthcare" by getting rid of the health ministry to save money shortly after he returned to power in 2010. Hungary spent only 4.4 percent of its GDP on health in 2022, a smaller share than any other EU country, Eurostat figures show. "Unfortunately... successive governments have not treated health as a priority," the head of the country's Hospital Association, Gyorgy Velkey, told AFP.

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! MY ART COMMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN, PLEASE SHARE !

Hello! I'm Glyn, an artist from Estonia and I have opened my art commissions on my ko-fi (leafpotion), although some art may be out-dated on my ko-fi, so if you have any questions of a certain style, don’t be afraid to message me!

If you can't pay through ko-fi or paypal, and you live in Estonia, I can do payments from hand to hand (I cannot print out the artworks, unless you want a traditional piece) or via bank transfer. More details can be discussed in DMs.

I'm willing to draw anything, as long as it's not offensive, pro-ship and other similar stuff. Also mecha and NSFW is a no go for me. Most I can do is draw something suggestive but the characters HAVE to be adults, and the commissioner has to be 18+.

I mostly need commissions right now due to my cats vet bills being high and me barely having any money for food at the moment.

I can do discounts up to 50% if you are from a low-income family, but I cannot do higher discounts than that.

And with charms, I'm limiting commissioned physical charms to the EU, as shipping costs to outside countries are higher (unless you're willing to pay and extra 5-6 euros, and are willing to wait a few weeks to receive the physical charm).

Please share this around, and thank you to those who have already commissioned me!

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SIGN AND REBLOG TWO PETITIONS TO PROTECT LGBT+ IN RUSSIA

Due to the recognition of LGBT+ as an "extremist organization", "Sphere Foundation" launched the petition calling on foreign countries that have signed international human rights conventions to ensure that visas and travel documents are obtained for LGBT+ people and specialized human rights defenders from Russia.

Human rights activists emphasize that recognition of LGBT+ as an "extremist organization" will lead exclusively to mass repressions against LGBT+ people, especially those who publicly advocated for the LGBT+ community.

The petition is addressed to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of EU member states; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk; EU commissioners.

There's also the petition "Erleichterte Aufnahme von Trans*Personen aus dem Ausland vom". There are only 15 days left and trans people need 46000 signs! I know it's sounds impossible but we can't give up on lives of Russian trans people. You can sign this petition from any country so please do it and boost it! You can ask me if you need help with filling out forms. We only have time until 18.12.2023!

Summarizing:

Click here if you think queer people should be able to escape from homophobic country where they can end up in jail for years for being queer

And click here if you support Germany simplifying reception of trans*people from abroad where they can't have surgery, take hormones, change their documents, get married etc