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[Federico Manfredo @FedeManfredo]

En un mundo con tanta injusticia, necesitamos que el fútbol — el deporte del pueblo — nos de confianza en que la humanidad puede cambiar. No que vuelva a recordarnos el acoso de los poderosos sobre el resto del mundo.
¡Vergonzoso no cobrar este penal contando también con el VAR!

[Jan Macarol @JMacarolV]

🙄 Kitajci so 15 let pred nami - letos pa bodo dobili leteče avtomobile. Med tem so Evropski avtomobilski giganti kot ostareli plemiči v propadajočem dvorcu, ki na neskončnih sestankih pijejo espresso in tri leta debatirajo o tem, pod kakšnim kotom naj bo zašit usnjen šiv na volanu, da bo v skladu z najnovejšo direktivo. Medtem ko evropski menedžerji v konferenčni sobi še vedno iščejo pravi kabel za PowerPoint predstavitev o "študiji izvedljivosti", so Kitajci v pičlih osemnajstih mesecih zrisali, razvili in na cesto postavili popolnoma nov avtomobil.

Uradna ocena bruseljskih sanjačev je, da za Kitajci zaostajamo od tri do sedem let. Lepo vas prosim. Realnost je od 10 do 15 let! To je tako, kot bi s konjsko vprego tekmoval proti raketi in se na koncu tolažil, da ima tvoj konj lepšo grivo in daljšo tradicijo.

Največja iluzija zahodnega sveta je prepričanje, da Kitajci zmagujejo zaradi poceni delovne sile. To so pravljice za lahko noč, ki si jih pred spanjem pripovedujejo nemški inženirji. Skrivnost ni v ceni, temveč v brutalni agilnosti. Hitrost. Obseg. Baterije. Programska oprema. Popolnoma nadzorovane dobavne verige. Oni nimajo časa za našo birokracijo in filozofiranje. Medtem ko Evropa obupano polira svoje muzejske eksponate, poskuša ohraniti staro slavo in uvaja nove davke na zrak, Kitajska že betonira temelje za prihodnje desetletje.

S Tilnom Hojčem (MG, VinFast) in Kristjanom Andjelkovićem (Omoda & Jaecoo) smo to evropsko tragedijo secirala povsem neposredno, brutalno in brez olepševanja.

Celoten pogovor (2,5 ure čiste resnice, po kateri boste verjetno želeli prodati delnice evropskih avtomobilskih podjetij) vas čaka na YouTube: (namig - sam sem se jih znebil že lani)

https://t.co/8MBh9I0ZMH

Zanima me vaše mnenje. Je Kitajska dejansko tehnološko svetlobna leta pred nami, ali pa so evropski proizvajalci preprosto postali prepočasni, preveč arogantni in preveč regulirani mastodonti? Zlijte svoj žolč v komentarjih.

[THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD]

Europe isn’t afraid it can’t catch up, Europe is afraid the mask has slipped. The world can finally see what the continent has become, a former power now reduced to a dependent market, a protectorate of America, and a future mortgaged on the altar of its own imperial delusions. The real panic in Europe is the horror of realizing no one even pretends Europe is a player anymore. And now that the bill for decades of outsourced power has arrived, Europe simply can’t pay it.

Europe performed the rituals of sovereignty while surrendering the substance of it. Nord Stream was sabotaged, Europe bowed. Its industries were gutted by U.S. LNG and green-tech protection rackets, Europe again submitted. DC imposed tariffs that would spark escalation elsewhere, Europe swallowed them. Meanwhile China floods its markets with cheap goods, Russia rewrites Eurasia’s destiny, and the U.S. writes a Ukraine peace proposal without even pretending to consult Brussels. Europe wasn’t sidelined. It was never in the room.

What truly terrifies European leaders is that Trump will download the humiliation of Ukraine’s defeat onto Europe. The U.S. will walk away claiming it tried its best. Europe will be left holding the corpse of a proxy war it could never win, defending a narrative it no longer believes, and answering to populations who will ask why their industries, incomes, security, and futures were sacrificed for someone else’s geopolitical adventure. There will be hell to pay.

Europe is thrashing because it senses the end. For years it convinced itself it was shaping events in Ukraine. Now it discovers it was the collateral. America will cut a deal with Moscow that secures American interests, Beijing will cut deals that secures Chinese markets, Moscow will secure her leadership position in the multipolar world. Europe will get what it always gets, the bill.

The WSJ article reads like a continent waking from a 30-year hallucination. The “battle lines of a new world order” aren’t being drawn, they were drawn long ago. The U.S. and China negotiate trade architecture without Europe. The U.S. and Russia security architecture terms without Europe. Even Xi–Trump summits reshape European fate more than any EU decision does. Europe is in the room only as ornamental furniture.

And yet the delusion persists that a “new Europe” can arise through more committees, more pooled funds, more bloated defense spending, more wooden speeches about strategic autonomy. But power is not manufactured by speeches, it is earned through confrontation, absorbing cost, and consequence. Europe chose cowardly submission over sovereignty, bureaucracy over strategy, and ideology over survival. It dismantled its own energy base, outsourced its security to Washington, and built its prosperity atop a German export engine powered by Russian gas and Chinese markets, both virtually gone.

The result? Europe is now the world’s first post-industrial museum piece: expensive, slow, unstable, overregulated, and terrified of admitting that its fate is no longer its own.

Trump’s dismissive line... “Europe is not telling me what to do” – wasn’t arrogance. It was diagnosis. The U.S. no longer sees Europe as a junior partner, it sees it as ballast. China sees it as a weakening market. Russia sees it as a problem.

This is why the panic feels existential.
This is why EU elites speak of “irrelevance” and “dangerous times.” This is why even Trump meeting Putin is portrayed as a catastrophe, because Europe knows the great powers are negotiating their futures without them.

This is Europe’s tragedy, it marched into a great-power era insisting it still mattered, and emerged as the only power willing to bleed, pay, and obey for a war that wasn’t its own. The U.S. walks away. Russia surges. China rises. And Europe, stripped of industry, energy, and agency, is left staring into the mirror of history asking:
How did we become the continent that destroyed ourselves so others could play the game?

[Joze P. Damijan @jdamijan]

Ko idiotski politiki prevladajo, gospodarstvo crkne. Z njim pa stotisoče služb in socalnih usod.
Nemškim politikom je uspelo bankrotirati nemško gospodarstvo. Prek serije napačnih odločitev - Energiewende (zapiranje jedrskih elektrarn, masivne subvemcije OVE), politika varčevanja, odprta vrata migrantom, zavračanje tehnološke transformacije, sankcioniranje sebe prek prepvedi izvoza v Rusijo in prepovedi uvoza plina iz Rusije, odločitev za oboroževanje namesto za razvoj).
Kako je mogoče kumulirati tako veliko število usodnih političnih napak v enem desetletju in pol?

[Andraž Tori (slo) @andraztori]

Zadruge so v redu, naj jih ima kdor jih želi. Samo ta konkretni zakon je pa stran vržena priložnost. Kot pravi @juremikuz ... https://t.co/WzXl6MGgAb

[FoodCoP Project @Foodcop_eu]

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[Povio @Povio]

Another great year at @podimconference, and this one came with a bookmark! 🔖

Not only were we back connecting with founders and startups, we also got to see our story featured in The Launch Code by Zoltan A. Vardy.

Thanks to Podim for having us as a Startupper Partner. 🚀

[embrAIsme @embraisme]

Jure Trilar had the opportunity to collaborate in the panel "Disrupt or Die: How #AI Is Transforming the Business Scene" at the PODIM startup & tech conference in Maribor. Together with other embrAIsme stakeholders, they engaged in an energetic and thought-provoking discussion.

[ITA Ljubljana @ITALjubljana]

🚀 PODIM Conference 2025 wrapped up successfully in Maribor 🇸🇮Slovenia! 1,000 participants, 58 venture capitalists, 188 startups from 23 countries - 8 of them representing the 🇮🇹Italian collective.

[Humanodoro @humanodoro]

PODIM last week was a blast. We pitched Humanodoro, met some incredible people, and left with calendars fuller than we expected.

Big thanks to the @podimconference for the great event (and the photos)!

[Joze P. Damijan @jdamijan]

Orožarska histerija
Bogdan Biščak:
Politično vodstvo EU funkcionira kot trop ovac. Kamor se nameni prva ovca, gredo še preostale. Če je to prepad, pa naj bo prepad, pomembno je, kot stalno ponavljajo, da smo enotni. Tako so s sankcijami proti Rusiji invalidirali EU-gospodarstvo, zdaj pa so na tem, da zelenemu prehodu, zdravstvu, infrastrukturi, kmetijstvu … odtegnejo nekje od 102 (kolikor bi obrambi dodali manjši histeriki) do 531 milijard dolarjev (kolikor bi dodali večji) in učinkovito zaključijo sabotažo, ki so jo začeli leta 2008.

Ima pa ta groteska, ob katastrofi, ki nam jo pripravljajo, vsaj eno zabavno in eno pozitivno okence. Zabavno je gledati goreče vernike v Natu, tem marketinškem oddelku vojaškoindustrijskega kompleksa, ki se sesuva v prah, kako jecljajoče iščejo formule za njegovo preživetje.
https://t.co/C10TI7DCMc

[Joze P. Damijan @jdamijan]

Evropa je uspešno zaustavila samo sebe

V Evropi se nobeno podjetje ne more razviti v šampiona, ker ga zatrejo regulacija in pomanjkanje ugodnih finančnih sredstev. Zato pozabimo na sanje o evropskem tehnološkem in razvojnem dohitevanju Amerike ali Kitajske ali na sanje o strateški tehnološki avtonomiji. Navaditi se moramo na realnost, da se je Evropa spremenila v industrijski muzej na prostem, ki zaenkrat še zagotavlja dovolj blaginje njenim prebivalcem. Jutri pa ne bo več.
https://t.co/7TBvq3LM10

[FoodCoP Project @Foodcop_eu]

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[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

Well done, whoever did this!

[Nejc Novak @NejcN]

Vlada RS spet mrcvari delniske opcije za zaposlene. Baje je treba zaposlene zaščititi. Baje je kapitalizem za zaposlene slab in jih izkorišča. Opcije je treba omejiti. Po vrednosti. Po višini. Pa vsem delavcem enake. Pa ne vem kaj še.

[Andraž Tori (slo) @andraztori]

@dusano zabije glavico na zebljico! Ko delavec dobi udeležbo v kapitalu mora biti to obdavčeno kot kapitalski dobiček, saj prevzema kapitalsko tveganje. https://t.co/jonekk9MIU

[matejrus @MRMatejRus]

@andraztori je osnova. ZGD je v pristojnosti MGTŠ in se je zavezal spremembi. Za davčno obravnavo pa skrbi MF, ki p je tudi izkazal veliko pripravljenost za spremembe a le kot del resorne politike - beri startup strategije MGTŠ. upanje umira zadnje!

[matejrus @MRMatejRus]

@IvanVaupotic bravo nemci

[Andraž Tori (slo) @andraztori]

Eden najbolj uglednih medijev - Wall Street Journal - je med najboljšimi tehnološkimi darili letos izbral kar dve slovenski - Chipolo in Bird Buddy.
Lahko naredimo tehnološki in gospodarski preboj! Politika naj se neha ukvarjat s štempljanjem in raje naredi kaj za ta sektor!

[Bitcoin Archive @BitcoinArchive]

$35,000 #Bitcoin