How is this related to this company?

There have been a lot of new developments in the last one and a half years that makes this article highly irrelevant I would say. And there were many posts here in this as well as in other comms about it.

But let’s be real, this is just some propaganda to make Zuck’s shitty attempt at AI look like an actually marketable product

I am not so sure. They use it certainly also for marketing, but these hacks are real I would say. It’s practically the same in China, just the narratives are slightly different. But the AI hype and the intention to harm others is the same.

The European Commission has proposed the partial suspension of Israel from Horizon Europe research programme.

I hope it will take similar measures to effectively enforce rules than ban the import of goods made by forced labour, such as Chinese EVs and other products.

And how does this compare to other world regions /countries? Is there any source with comparable data?

So and where does the number come from then? Would also be great if we could see global statistics by country by comparable data.

Yes, we are going through a strange timeline … In this year’s Copenhagen Democracy Summit in Warsaw, former Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposed what he called the “D7”, the “Democracy 7”, comprising Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the United Kingdom (four of these countries are already members of the Community of Democracies).

Rasmussen pointed out that the D7 represents roughly US$36 trillion in combined GDP, approximately 30% of the global total, enough economic leverage to deter coercion by any country.

He said that the D7 must not be a closed club but could be joined by what he called associates, democracies aligned on specific initiatives (he named India, South Africa, Norway; we could add Taiwan and several other countries); as well as partners, non-democratic states that want to cooperate on single issues of mutual interest without partnership.

Here is Rasmussen’s paper (pdf) if interested.

That’s very interesting. Can you provide any sources for that, please?

Energy in Germany is obtained primarily from fossil fuels, accounting for 77.6% of the country’s total energy consumption in 2023, followed by renewables at 19.6%, and nuclear power at 0.7%, the latter of which being no longer used since 15 April 2023, when the last three remaining German nuclear reactors were taken offline.[2][3][4]

The claim that “energy in Germany is obtained primarily from fossil fuels, accounting for 77.6% of the country’s total energy consumption in 2023” is backed by several sub-links provided as footnotes 2, 3, and 4.

If you click on footnote 2, you run into a 404. The page doesn’t exist.

If you go directly to the BDEW website, the BDEW thankfully offers data about Germany’s energy production and consumption. Amongst others, the data says (opens pdf):

• The share of renewables in German electricity production rose from 52% in 2023 to 58% in 2025.
• The share of renewables in German electricity consumption rose from 53% in 2023 to 55% in 2025.

Footnote 3 takes you to a well-sourced article published by Clean Energy Wire. The article is citing federal sources and, therefore, mirroring the data provided by the federal agency BDEW.

It sounds that both German domestic energy production and consumption is on the right track. It remains unclear where the 77.6% figure cited in Wikipedia comes from, especially as it is in direct contradiction to the referenced sources.

As a side note, we must say that among larger economies, particularly China is far behind these numbers. For example, while China’s total energy production and consumption gained from coal has been below 50% of the country’s energy mix, the total energy gained from coal in China has been increasing over the years. And Beijing says it intends to increase its coal energy generation in the coming years further. It is planning to reach its peak of energy production gained from coal in 2030, while the government hasn’t yet a clear coal exit strategy.

Contrary to China, as seen in the data I have linked to in this comment, Germany’s energy production from coal (hard coal and brown coal combined) decreased from more than 300 kWh in 1991 to 105 kWh in 2025. That’s 21% of total production.

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Tardigrade, in every discussion I have had with you, you have never acted in a way that felt worth taking the time to respond to you, but here you go in the desperate last attempt to interact with the non-obnoxious form of you.

Thank you. I don’t know how this list of links would answer my question, but you appear to convey the same narrative over and again.

Maybe y’all should have actually pushed back against the US starting the Iran War harder?

Who should have done what exactly, and when?

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No one knows what Burnham will be doing, it’s apparently too early for any meaningful assessment. There’s no reason for cheering the new PM, but neither is there reason to engage in nihilism. Sadly, the accounts that try to play down any (possible) positive development in Europe -or the West in general - are often the same that praise governments like those in China and/or Russia as role models. That’s weird imo.

An 2-hours old account engaging in whataboutism with a misleadingly framed question. What is this?

Yeah, but, again, the headline satisfies OP’s propaganda appetite while the content is once again behind a paywall.

I would really like to know what exactly ‘normalizing’ means as China has likely a different view which is not limited to, but includes the Baltic states.

In 2023, China’s then Ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, created a “we told you so” moment for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania,

The French TV interview with China’s Ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, was already raising eyebrows real-time as the diplomat hesitated to respond to the host’s request to clarify the ambassador’s, and implicitly, China’s position: “Is Crimea, in your eyes, Ukraine?” After a short pause, Lu Shaye snickered and said: “It depends on how one perceives this problem. There’s history, isn’t it?”

What happened in the next seconds caused an international scandal: to drive his point on Ukraine home, the ambassador questioned the sovereignty of all countries that re-established or established independence as the USSR collapsed, as he said: “under the international law, even these countries of the ex-Soviet Union don’t have the effective status”.

It drew ire also from the Baltic states. And even though China rowed back soon later on its diplomat’s remarks and eventually found a replacement for the embassy in France, many label Beijing’s move as rhetoric as in February 2025, Lu Shaye was named Special Representative of the Chinese Government for European Affairs, a position he has been holding since.

So Vilnius may normalize the ties, but it will understand that the regime in Beijing isn’t a friend.

We’ll likely never know for sure, but one reason might be UEFA’s opposition. All the world cup finalists in the last 70 or so years came from Europe, with the only exceptions being Argentina and Brazil. The majority of elite players are in European clubs. You can’t do something like that without Europe.

Yes, we know that. Sanchez, who celebrated himself as the hero of migrants just a few weeks ago, also said this week that Spain is under ‘attack’ after he deployed the military following a mass migration influx into the country.

Now he just needs fresh publicity to distract from the endless series of corruption cases in Spain, involving his close allies and family members. That’s really a shame, and it doesn’t help the climate nor migrants, let alone the Spaniards.

Yes, we know that. Sanchez, who celebrated himself as the hero of migrants just a few weeks ago, also said this week that Spain is under ‘attack’ after he deployed the military following a mass migration influx into the country.

Now he just needs fresh publicity to distract from the endless series of corruption cases in Spain, involving his close allies and family members. That’s really a shame, and it doesn’t help the climate nor migrants, let alone the Spaniards.

Yes, but OP is seeking headline that make Europe look bad. They posted the same story a few days ago from another sources (here, if interested, but it’s the very same stuff).

The site is behind Cloudflare and paywalled here.

As a related report:

United States, Russia, China - state actors spreading climate disinformation in Europe

[Mathilde Jourde, a researcher at French think tank IRIS] … says that much of the disinformation centres on European climate and energy policy, like the European Green Deal, a roadmap launched in late 2019 to make Europe the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050 …

The United States and Russia are both fossil fuel exporters, which means they could benefit from a reduction in the EU’s decarbonisation goals, the IRIS report says. But Jourde says the aims of this kind of disinformation could be much wider: “The disinformation itself might not be the main objective. For Russia, for example, this could serve as a strategic objective amid ongoing tensions in Europe surrounding the war in Ukraine” …

Russian disinformation is certainly spread by state media outlets like Russia Today, which has been banned by the European Union since 2022, but it is often concealed, according to the report. It is often spread by channels aligned with the state such as Portal Kombat, a vast network of disinformation sites discovered in 2024 by Viginum, the French service combating foreign digital interference.

Climate disinformation is also spread by those with links to the government, like conservative think tanks that can coordinate campaigns against environmental policy in Europe. One such body is the [U.S.-based] Heartland Institute, according to the IRIS report. The organisation is openly sceptical of climate change and “receives funding from companies such as ExxonMobil and from Republican donors”. The Heartland Institute opened an office in London in 2024 with the aim of influencing European energy policy …

Other state actors are also spreading climate disinformation, though perhaps less aggressively. China, for one, “won’t deny that climate change is happening, nor its seriousness, but it will promote certain narratives to defend its position”, the researcher said .The country seeks, for example, to highlight its response to climate change and minimise its responsibility, instead insisting on the role of Western nations. The IRIS report notes that “certain points of convergence can be identified” between China and Russia. China also took part in influence operations during the Hawaii wildfires in 2023 and during the floods in Spain in 2024 …