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Climate, energy and all things interesting. Just transition and what it means for workers. Living in Puotila, Helsinki with wife and three kids. 🇫🇮🇪🇺 Working: www.sttk.fi/en

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Live Updates: U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy

Live Updates: U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

06.03.2026 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ukraine says Hungary detains Ukrainian bank employees after leaders trade accusations Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Hungary early on ​Friday of detaining seven employees of Ukraine's state savings bank after a fresh exchange of barbs between the two countries' leader...

European Union has been way too soft way too long with Hungary.
This isn’t about Orban or Hungary, but about EU’s inability to act years ago.

www.reuters.com/world/zelens...

06.03.2026 06:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

05.03.2026 18:05 👍 878 🔁 383 💬 23 📌 28

Huomenna perinteinen naistenpäiväseminaarimme Musiikkitalolla tai striimissä. Kiinnostavaa keskustelua luvassa, tervetuloa!

05.03.2026 12:13 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Criteria:

1. tech transfer
2. 50%+ employees based in EU
3. Foreign participation limited to 49%
4. Must be JV with EU entity
5. 1% minimum of global turnover must be invested in EU R&D
6. 30% of components must be bought for final product must be bought in EU

04.03.2026 12:20 👍 40 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 5
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Here we go - EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne presents the long-awaited Industrial Accelerator Act

"What I'm talking to you about isn't just a change in our modus operandi - it's actually a change in doctrine. This is something that was unthinkable even just a few months ago"

04.03.2026 12:20 👍 79 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 9

Lähi-idän sota uhkaa etenkin kaasua paljon käyttävän Saksan taloutta.
Maassa on muutenkin ollut mm. heikon autoteollisuuden vuoksi matalat tunnelmat.

04.03.2026 05:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am sure the Board of Peace will give it some credibility if needed.

03.03.2026 08:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m just really very deeply worried that this Iran adventure might severely harm the credibility of the FIFA peace prize.

03.03.2026 08:33 👍 86 🔁 9 💬 10 📌 1
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This is what happens when we start wars over #oil. We would rather not have them, but when we do, we are speeding the transition to #renewables. Oil companies get a short term boom, but the life expectancy of their industry goes down. I expect the war in #Iran to be the same.

03.03.2026 07:51 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

Trump has no strategy to help the Iranian people build a legitimate state—in fact, he’s dismantling tools that could have helped promote civic engagement and build a united opposition in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues.

28.02.2026 18:35 👍 215 🔁 86 💬 21 📌 12
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Die 10 deutschsprachigen Accounts, die in den letzten 12 Monaten auf X die meisten Interaktionen gesammelt haben: Rechte Krawall-Blogger, Fake News-Schleudern, AfD-Politiker·innen und die Welt.
meedia.de/news/beitrag...

27.02.2026 19:45 👍 1359 🔁 393 💬 76 📌 45
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Austria, INSA poll:

FPÖ-PfE: 38% (+1)
ÖVP-EPP: 19% (-1)
SPÖ-S&D: 19% (-1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 9%
NEOS-RE: 7% (-1)
KPÖ-LEFT: 3%

+/- vs. 12-14 January 2026

Fieldwork: 23-25 February 2026
Sample size: 1,000

➤ europeelects.eu/austria

01.03.2026 18:06 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2

Renewable energy and electrification will speed up.

28.02.2026 20:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Spain defends EU’s flagship climate law against attacks from other capitals Spanish prime minister’s paper came as Italy demanded the suspension of carbon pricing in Europe.

Spain has come to the defense of the European Union's bedrock climate law, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warning fellow European leaders against dismantling the embattled Emissions Trading System.

27.02.2026 13:48 👍 65 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
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This is why good educational system and quality media are so essential.
And why in many countries we now see the results of their decline.

27.02.2026 06:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.

26.02.2026 19:58 👍 94 🔁 41 💬 5 📌 7
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

26.02.2026 13:28 👍 6859 🔁 2633 💬 152 📌 210
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1. US Senator Markwayne Mullin, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, believes that Ayatollah Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been the Supreme Leader since 1979.

26.02.2026 06:23 👍 338 🔁 55 💬 53 📌 40
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Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

25.02.2026 17:06 👍 5139 🔁 1896 💬 97 📌 129
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India braces for Hormuz shock, oil costs may rise - Business News | The Financial Express Rising Iran-US tensions have pushed over 52% of India’s crude imports through the Strait of Hormuz, heightening energy security risks. Analysts say refiners may pivot back to Russian oil if Gulf supplies face disruption amid escalating geopolitical uncertainty.

Over 50% of India’s crude imports passes through the Strait of Hormuz - a key global oil transit route. This leaves 🇮🇳 exposed to supply disruptions and price volatility. Reducing this risk means scaling renewable electricity and electrification🧵(1/5)

25.02.2026 09:30 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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🇮🇷 Students in #Tehran participated in the third consecutive day of #protests in the #Iranian capital on Monday, the largest demonstrations of this kind since the authorities’ deadly crackdown in January.

24.02.2026 13:20 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Europe defies Trump team over IEA climate fight European leaders pushed back after Energy Secretary Chris Wright threatened to quit the agency for using climate modeling in its forecasts.

Good!
www.eenews.net/articles/eur...

25.02.2026 03:47 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Vain ulkomaalaisten työllisten määrä kasvaa, suomalaisten ei Työllisyyden kasvu viime vuosina on tullut lähes pelkästään ulkomaalaistaustaisista työntekijöistä. Suomalaisten työllisten määrä on vähentynyt.

Mielenkiintoinen.

yle.fi/a/74-20211881

25.02.2026 05:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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According to an NPR investigation, the DOJ failed to release documents relating to interviews the FBI conducted in 2019 with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child.

Only the first interview, is available to the public and she doesn’t mention Trump at all. trib.al/BU8zkFp

24.02.2026 18:38 👍 201 🔁 104 💬 11 📌 7

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

24.02.2026 09:58 👍 3764 🔁 1034 💬 102 📌 53
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💰Context on the Hungary/Slovakia–Ukraine oil spat: before the company's statement of a Russian attack on the Friendship/Druzhba (Barátság) pipeline and a halt in supplies, four MOL executives sold large blocks of shares. Suspected insider dealing was reported, @24.hu.web.brid.gy writes.

24.02.2026 10:17 👍 30 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
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US ambassador to France banned from meeting French government The U.S. ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, has been banned from meeting members of the French government after not showing up at the Foreign Affairs ministry earlier in the day, where he had been summoned over comments on the killing of a French far-right activist last week, diplomatic sources said on Monday.

US ambassador to France banned from meeting French government reut.rs/4kPem4t

23.02.2026 20:01 👍 179 🔁 65 💬 26 📌 31

Putin will weiter Krieg führen, die Ukraine ist gezwungen, sich weiter zu verteidigen, die USA unter Trump werden keinen Frieden bringen - bleibt die Frage, ob die Europäer endlich den Putins Krieg stoppen und weitere dieser furchtbaren “Jahrestage” des Großangriffs verhindern.

24.02.2026 07:47 👍 367 🔁 80 💬 10 📌 3
Wide protected bike-lane in Downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes.

Wide protected bike-lane in Downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

21.02.2026 06:10 👍 489 🔁 187 💬 5 📌 15