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On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control – the authority responsible for managing and enforcing economic and financial sanctions) sanctioned Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian collective that has been providing digital infrastructure – email, hosting, mailing lists, chat, videoconferencing, streaming, and services related to privacy and anonymity – to movements and activists since 2001. Washington designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), alleging that it has provided financial, material or technological support to terrorism and to organizations already subjected to sanctions. A/I rejects the allegations and declares that its activities consist in providing tools for digital self-defence and infrastructure for the freedom of communication.

On August 28 the autistici.org web domain was found to be unreachable. The collective attributed the problem to the DNS level and to the .org domain registry, Public Interest Registry (PIR). This technical point is important: it does not necessarily mean that the server was shut down; a domain can be made unreachable by preventing the normal DNS publication or resolution. Technical findings indicated a serverHold status for the domain (see below, “10. The blocking of autistici.org: facts and attributions”). The exact cause and the formal chain of decision-making must be however distinguished from the collective’s inferences: there is no public statement from PIR explicitly saying that it acted on OFAC’s orders.

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What is EU Inc.? The European Commission proposal aims to make it easier to start, grow and expand a business across the EU with simpler rules, digital registration and fewer barriers.

Backed by the European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen, EU Inc. could allow companies to register within 48 hours for less than €100, attract investment more easily and operate across the EU under a more standardised framework, while national tax, labour and social rules continue to apply.

In this video:

00:00 Why expanding across the EU is complicated

00:16 What is EU Inc.?

01:02 Register a company in 48 hours for less than €100

01:20 Funding and investment

01:37 Tax, labour and social rules

02:07 What happens next

02:22 A simpler EU Single Market

France has been urging the EU to lift sanctions on Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov

EU diplomats said France had joined Slovakia in calling ​for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Usmanov after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Edit: updated title to be in accordance with the article.

Edit 02: Thank you to President Donald Jay Trump for his retarded attack on Iran and therefore showing Iran that it doesn’t need a nuclear weapon to blackmail the world. Only occupying two pieces of land will do.

Because without the volatile prices on the fossil fuel market, none of this would have been possible with this speed and magnitude.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51986229

🇪🇺 Seeing Ursula Leyen¹ praised all day for her State of the European Union speech is upsetting to me.

🇨🇦 While closer ties to Canada sound great, it also included her brand-new digital ID verification² law, the so called “EU Kids Act”!

➕ It goes one step further than Social Media, covering video-sharing platforms, AI chatbots, AI companions, online games, software app stores and operating systems³

Europeans should fight this surveillance state law tooth and nail! #STOPEUKIDSACT

¹not sure why we still accept people using nobiliary particles such as “von der” 🤢

²or rebranded “age verification”

³ euractiv.com/…/gamers-will-have-to-prove-their-ag… euractiv.com/…/exclusive-von-der-leyen-to-fine-te…

The rising star of Europe’s fascist and neo-Nazi right served seven years after being convicted of leading a criminal organisation and has vowed to bypass a ban on his participation in the next elections.

French investigators suspect sabotage was behind a train derailment in northwestern France that injured 44 people and left passengers in a state of shock, prosecutors said on Saturday.

Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance

Ten years on from the UK’s historic Brexit referendum, the nation’s decision to leave the European Union appears as divisive as ever.

Zelensky posted warm thanks to Israel’s president for Independence Day wishes. He said Ukraine-Israel ties will grow and prayed for peace. Meanwhile, Israel bombs Gaza and occupies Palestine. Russia does same in Ukraine. Ukraine supports Israel, but Israel is just like Russia. Selective outrage is not okay. If you cry about invasion, dont support another invader.

source: x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2092372329594511598

Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) said on Sunday it would shut down its services after a U.S. terrorism designation led to the suspension ​of its .org domain and the closure of its bank account.

The volunteer-run provider, founded in 2001, offers privacy-focused email, websites, mailing lists ​and blogging services to activists, campaigners and others seeking alternatives to ​commercial platforms.

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Sweden’s election was too close to call in the polls, but the Red-Green bloc appear to have beaten the incumbent Tidö alliance and intra-bloc fighting could make forming a new coalition difficult. So what happened? And what does it mean for the future?

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German companies increased investment in China by a third in the first half ​of 2026 while sharply reducing investment in the ‌United States, according to a study by the German Economic Institute (IW) seen by Reuters on Sunday.

“The EU remains fully committed to its One China Policy. Within this policy, the EU recognises the government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole government of China,” a Commission spokesperson said in an written statement.

USE

Regulate short-term rentals and vacancy. Convert empty buildings, like vacant homes and offices, into housing. Create incentives and fast permits to make renovation the first choice.

INVEST

Ensure public money serves people not speculation. Reform fiscal rules so governments can invest more in housing. Create an EU housing fund.

PROTECT

Set enforceable standards to keep housing affordable and sustainable. Keep people in their homes during EU-funded renovation. Establish an EU Housing Agency to govern transparently.

We call on the EU to act and people to sign!

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Europe is falling behind. Its share of the global economy has been shrinking for decades, and it’s projected to grow more slowly than rivals like the US and China.But one of Europe’s biggest economic problems may be of its own making.

The EU was built to function as one huge economy — where people, money, goods and businesses can move freely across borders. In reality, national rules and barriers still divide it into 27 different markets. In this episode of Business Beyond, we look at how Europe’s fragmented economy is holding it back and why fixing it is proving so difficult. #dwbusiness

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:21 Why working across Europe is hard

03:53 Why Europe needs one economy

08:21 Why trading across Europe is hard

11:10 Why Europe loses start-ups

13:58 Why Europe lacks investment

18:37 Conclusion

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/35731509

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/41596092

The measure came into force on 10 July 2026

[…] the annual financial requirement is likely to be between €20 million and €25 million.

[…]

The policy is intended to encourage more people to leave their cars at home and use public transport for journeys within Porto and the surrounding urban region.

[Mayor] Duarte has cautioned that abolishing fares will not, by itself, resolve Porto’s congestion problems. He described the programme as part of a broader mobility strategy that must also include faster services, better connections, increased capacity and more reliable journey times.

Porto currently has about 16 kilometres of dedicated bus lanes. The municipality plans to increase this to approximately 22 kilometres by the end of 2026, giving buses greater priority over private vehicles on some of the city’s busiest routes.

The mayor said public transport would need to become more convenient and dependable than travelling by car before a substantial change in daily habits could be expected. The municipality’s objective is for public transport to become the main means of travelling around Porto, with private cars taking a secondary role.

The scheme is unusual because Porto is paying for its residents to travel across the entire metropolitan network rather than offering free journeys only inside the municipality.

The Porto Metropolitan Area comprises 17 municipalities, each of which remains responsible for its own spending decisions. […]

Germany has said Russia was responsible for last month’s drone attack at Leipzig’s airport.

A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany, close to Ukrainian cargo planes, on 4 August.

Drought has left Europe hunting for millions more tons of corn just as Russia chokes off Ukraine’s cheapest route to market, creating an unlikely opening for the American farm belt.

French conglomerate Bolloré has decided to discontinue electric bus production at its subsidiary Bluebus.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is three points ahead in a new poll for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania