Does anyone know a UK source for affordable (≤£25 inc p+p) 22mm stainless steel watch straps made in a democracy (a country ideally ≥ 8 on the Economist Democracy Index; definitely ≥ 6)?
European Union member states removed a ban on imports of raw, unprocessed Russian sable fur, incorporating the change into a new sanctions package against Russia agreed on July 23, according to Euractiv.
Last week someone here posted a list of welted shoe and Shetland knitwear makers, partly to make the point that “just one line made in UK” is a common dodge. I said I would check them. Here is what came back.
Last week I posted here about verifying where 600+ “European” brands are actually made. Three of you corrected me: the SIGG line, the Salomon scope and the tracking claim. All three are fixed in that post and in the directory.
Linux and LibreOffice as daily drivers are used in the Data Protection and Document Managment Department at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria - not because it was ordered from above but because the team decided that those are the correct tools for their job. Other departments in the university administration are now set to follow.
Over the last weeks I went through 600+ brands that get recommended as “European alternatives” and tried to verify where their products are actually made — factory pages, press visits, certifications. Some things genuinely surprised me:
Domyn - an Italian company specialized in researching and developing responsible artificial intelligence (AI) for regulated industries, including financial services, government and heavy industry - plans to release a fully open-source AI model within a year, aiming for one of the most advanced “frontier” systems available. CEO Uljan Sharka laid out the timeline on Thursday. The push is part of Europe’s drive to lean less on foreign-hosted AI.
22 July 2026. GreenX Metals Limited (ASX:GRX, LSE:GRX, GPW:GRX, Germany-FSE:A3C9JR) (GreenX or the Company) is pleased to announce that fieldwork has commenced at its Eleonore North project in East Greenland (Eleonore North or Project). The exploration program is targeting gold (Au), tungsten (W), and antimony (Sb).
A privacy-first Git hosting platform for developers who refuse to let their source code train someone else’s model. Drop-in replacement for your existing Git workflow — but your repositories stay strictly within the EU.
I wanted a durable sustainable large light bottle and found these ones from Spain. Large dog and me consume a lot of water so I opted for a one liter single walled that would still fit in my bum bag bottle holder. Despite not a thermos it keeps refrigerated water cold for at least an hour or more in the current 28°C heat so I’m happy.
I’m rebuilding my workshop. All my power tools are in a terrible state, so I’m basically going to buy new everything - cordless drills, angle grinder, jigsaw, belt sander… the lot.
Soofi S 30B-A3B is a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid Mamba–Transformer foundation model for German and English. Its hybrid design activates only 3B of 30B parameters per token and keeps the inference cache near-constant as context grows, giving it a decisive throughput advantage over dense models for long-context, high-concurrency deployment.
In a significant move to protect Europe’s subsea critical infrastructure, the European Commission has officially finalized €5.8 million in grants to establish its first two Regional Cable Hubs in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. Alongside this rollout, Brussels launched a major €40 million funding call aimed at drastically increasing Europe’s emergency maritime capacity to repair damaged submarine cables.
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.
“Trying to protect children with suspicionless mass surveillance is like frantically mopping the floor while the faucet is still running. Blanket chat control is just as unacceptable as indiscriminately opening everyone’s physical mail. For five years, this failed system has served as a smokescreen to delay real action, all while overwhelming the police with false alarms. We need more child protection, not less—but we need effective protection, not the illusion of security.”
Europe has launched new €7 million (£6 million) grants at a time when increased political oversight of research in the US is pushing more scholars to consider leaving the country, but experts say the scheme is not big enough to seriously move the dial on international mobility.
After a long dispute, the EU Parliament has voted in an expedited procedure to extend the controversial exception rule for the indiscriminate scanning of chats.
Several libraries in Surrey are using CCTV cameras made by a Chinese firm whose equipment is banned from sensitive government sites over security concerns.
According to a French financial newspaper, BYD attempted to acquire a stake in Renault twice within two years – apparently to gain access to Renault’s plants in Europe. The offer is said to have gone too far for the French, who are otherwise open to alliances.
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has successfully traced and analysed a cross-border trafficking route used for the distribution of more than 200,000 counterfeit condoms in Europe. The fake condoms were sold in Europe using the name and logo of a well-known brand.
On 18 June 2026, the Polish Council of Ministers announced a new Resolution for a Strategy on the Digitalisation of the State. The document includes a fully-fledged chapter on open source software use in the national public administration.
I’m about to get my 27 inch dsktop PC monitor mounted to an arm for usage in my bed. But my monitor doesn’t have any speakers built in so I need something for that. Preferably under 100 €.
State-backed ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) said it will partner with Taiwan’s Foxconn to develop an electric vehicle production and research hub in southern Poland, advancing plans to create a domestic EV champion as Europe demand picks up.
Went through 307 SaaS tools that market themselves as European or EU based and checked what actually sits under the hood: hosting, CDN, DNS, email, analytics.
Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made.
I donated to the devs of Lemmy for the first time, and discovered what LiberaPay is, but found out they only support American payment methods as of now, which is quite sad. But then, I went to check their GitHub suggestions to see if someone had already asked for it to be implemented, and here is their answer :
On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times.
🚨 A shocking backroom deal is underway to revive Chat Control 1.0 this Friday — and on Monday 29 June, the final trilogue for permanent mass scanning takes place. We face a double-attack on private communication. Take two minutes now: e-mail your MEPs and Permanent Representation to stop this!
Interesting numbers from Qobuz, a french music streaming service. But the press releases have slightly different emphasis on being european in the different languages.
So I’m gonna move into my own place in the near future, and I’ll need a TV. So are there any European manufacturers or brands i should keep in mind when buying one?
I am toying with the idea of buying the GS6 with Murena e/os, but there is very little information about this phone. I was wondering if somebody had tried it
I just stumbled upon this app (though never tried it). It says “The Buy European app” is particularly useful when you’re shopping in supermarkets or retail stores.
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