Imo the Germans really deserve props with how they treat their black page, compared to how other countries around them still try to hide what they did during colonial times (which to some extent, continues to present day)
I guess this is so in many more places, we look at the world and wonder who has power. Most Europeans will see two big players: China and the US.
China (unlike Russia) was never a true enemy, but neither ever a true ally. It has been going back and forth between a dependable business partner and a hostile state, stealing technological secrets, overflowing our market with unsafe low-cost goods.
The US behaved like a dependable friend for a long time. They did things we ('the rest of the west') didn't like, but they also helped us out all the time. Obvious to anyone here, this is no longer the case. We cannot predict whether their next policy will help or hurt us, the only thing we can say for sure it will be whatever works best for them. That's not the behaviour of an ally.
I sincerely wonder what the future holds. China doesn't have to be an enemy of the west and vice versa. But i guess we (or actually, each world leader) all have to choose how we position ourselves on the global stage.
In general i find it a really good thing that a single country can hand out a visa for the entire schengen-area, but that it is still not possible to restrict that possibility is beyond me. Russia is a hostile state, obviously not all Russians should be punished for that but some precaution against bad actors is totally logical. It's not like this war started last week.
"Ukraine is now so successful that Putin is only able to organise a 9 May parade with an official presidential decree by this President," Rutte said, pointing to Zelenskyy.
I feel like the EU has woken up, but needs some time before they're currently awake. If there is still politicians out there who need a wake-up call, i guess they just prefer to stay asleep.
I agree, but this will require political will. I think on lemmy people would vote for a government that creates stuff like this, but there are a lot of people want their government to spend as little as possible, unfortunately. I find it more likely we end up with a non-profit like wikipedia provides basic knowledge to the public, free of charge.
Here are two related posts on Lemmy:
i'll edit this comment in a sec with link preview:Gedoodverfd opvolger van DigiD is niet te gebruiken zonder Gmail-account of Apple-ID Linked article in Dutch, it covers the tech mentioned in the article of this post. "NL Wallet, the government's upcoming digital identity app, relies on software from Apple and Google, according to research by Follow the Money." For the rest of the English translation it's in a comment; https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/47664008
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything This post from two days ago links an article about the current Dutch system, which was almost taken over by a big US corporation. https://vger.to/scribe.disroot.org/post/9308733