Same company: Decathlon’s Secret Project to Keep Doing Business in Russia

It’s somehow always Hungary and Turkey.

The Euro as a currency was introduced in 1999 and at that point was only used for banks/institutions to interact with each other. Euro notes and coins were only introduced in 2002.

So what’s the point?

Producing more plant-based food is actually a lot more efficient, as animals poop out a significant amount of the calories you feed them. Hence, you’d actually need a lot fewer imports.

Producing animal products in the current amounts is a lose-lose-lose-lose-lose scenario: people work a lot harder to produce unhealthy products from tortured creatures which are bad for the environment, creating additional cost everywhere.

or “We wouldn’t want an equivalent of F-Droid around here”

Before we forget the one good bit: She was instrumental to the EU Green Deal.

Fingers crossed Mozilla actually implements that and it gets Ublock too.

This is connected to Brexit, sure, but I am almost certain (it’s not mentioned in the article though) that the landlord for the property is not the UK government but rather a private enterprise of some sort. So the EMA having to move out is not the fault of the landlord, really. The realistic options are spelled out in the article: the space stays empty until 2039, the EMA find someone who wants to sublet it, or EMA/UK gov/landlord find a deal together. I don’t see the EU just ignoring its obligations as an option, not least because the EU-UK relationship is still important.

Cookie banners would not be necessary if companies weren’t trying to do shit with data, specifically personally-identifying data and personal-behavior data. If they were just running simple analytics over everyone, there would be no need for “cookie” banners, even as they used cookies. Instead, mainstream sites try to figure out my personal click paths and then associate that with a mail address I typed into their newsletter form accidentally but didn’t click Submit on and then combine their data with data from millions of other websites assocuiated with the same email. The EU never said that all websites have to use blatantly non-compliant services from Google, Adobe, and tons of others.

Even the term “cookie banner” is a total misnomer here. “Extraneous and third-party data collection banner” would be much more honest, as cookies are a symptom but not an issue on their own.

This is not a failing of the GDPR. This is a failing of web designers, corporate marketing structures, and the legal system (specifically that of Ireland).