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@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇨🇳 EU–China trade breakthrough:
🚗 Hybrid export moderation
💶 €225m in potential tariff savings
⚙️ Progress on rare earth licensing
Preliminary understanding; implementation pending.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 US and German workers start from very different legal positions.
Most US employment is at-will. In Germany, covered workers generally need a socially justified reason for dismissal.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇬🇷 Greece says support is growing for more EU fiscal room to tackle high energy prices.
The proposal would support temporary, targeted relief — but no EU-wide deal exists yet.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 The EU has selected 46 new Strategic Projects for critical raw materials.
16 member states.
15 of 17 strategic materials.
~€21.1bn investment required.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇫🇮 Finnish KHOY vacuum-packs sofa beds into parcel-sized boxes for European delivery.
2025 revenue: €4.3m
Exports: >80%
2026: expected to more than double revenue.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇮🇪 EU finance ministers agree a key capital-markets reform.
Goal: reduce fragmentation and unlock more of Europe’s €10tn in household savings for investment.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇮🇹 Italy has confirmed telecom customers’ right to reach a human operator.
AGCOM rules require an average response time of no more than 150 seconds.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇱🇻 Latvia’s new-company registrations rose 8.3% in the first nine months of 2026.
September set a 10-year record: 1,118 new firms.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 Kagan and Soai win the 2026 Chemistry Nobel for work that helped chemists control molecular mirror images — crucial to modern drugmaking.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni has filed a 4-second EU sound-mark application aimed at strengthening protection against AI voice cloning.
It is still under examination.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 The EU’s three global top-10 startup ecosystems are worth $769.2B combined.
🇸🇪 Sweden #6
🇩🇪 Germany #7
🇳🇱 Netherlands #10
Add France at #11 and the total reaches about $1.139T.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 France and Germany want EU action against unfair trade.
Macron and Merz propose stronger tools to reduce supplier dependencies and, in exceptional cases, let the Commission restrict single-market access more quickly.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇪🇸 Spain awards the maximum critical-minerals grant to Osmond Resources’ Orión project.
The project targets rare earths, titanium and zirconium and is being advanced as a potential first EU domestic rare-earths mine.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Germany’s planqc wins the Made in Europe Award for quantum computing.
Next: a 100-qubit system for DLR and a 1,000-qubit system for LRZ, both due in 2027.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇸🇪 Sweden lands the NATO Innovation Fund’s first direct investment in the country.
KTH spinout TERASi has raised €11m for secure tactical communications.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 The richest 10% own about 76% of global wealth.
The poorest half owns around 2%.
Economic growth and broadly shared prosperity are not the same thing.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Germany’s new 365m wind turbine is the tallest in the world.
Its 300m hub is designed to reach stronger, steadier winds and potentially more than double energy yield.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 Piketty’s Global Justice Project models a very different 2100:
€5,000 monthly income per person globally, far lower wealth inequality and roughly half today’s annual working hours.
A scenario — not a forecast.
@eueconomics.bsky.socialhe Greenland deal gives the U.S. more military access — but not sovereignty.
CSIS argues the bigger legacy may be Europe’s faster push toward strategic autonomy and reduced dependence on Washington.
@eueconomics.bsky.social🇪🇺 The EU wants more public support to translate into European production.
Dacia Spring assembly has already moved from China to Slovenia.
