Well part of this is because Europe is in fact heating up faster than the world average

Global mean temperature between 2015 and 2024 was 1.24 to 1.28°C warmer than the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record. European land temperatures have increased even faster over the same period by 2.19 to 2.26°C, depending on the dataset used. European environment agency

Stein des Anstoßes: das horrende Honorar des Nachlassverwalters Robin Brühmüller von mehr als 200 Millionen Euro – gemäß der 1,5-Prozent-Regelung, die nach der Tabelle des Deutschen Notarvereins vorgesehen ist.

Mal abgesehen davon, dass eine Änderung des Erbrechts notwendig ist, dass Superreiche endlich mal ihren fairen Anteil bezahlen, ist das Notarwesen auch dringend reformbedürftig.

Ich weiß nicht zu welchen Grad Notare z.b. persönlich haftbar sind für Fehler, dass man die Kosten auf Prozentbasis kalkulieren muss, aber auch das Risiko wäre ja nicht nach oben hin offen. Worst case bliebe immer die Privatinsolvenz.

Zumindest die grundlegende Notarfunktion sollte meiner Meinung nach einfach vom Staat angeboten werden.

For many a trip to the US from Europe is a major event. I'd imagine that many people planned their trips last year before Trump was even reelected and had already invested a lot of money, at which point sunk fallacy plays a role.

I also think that for many it still hasn't registered that they are now also at risk and it's not just the classic family guy meme anymore, where it's based on skin colour.

With how reliant we, as a society, have become on digital things the two are connected. Not just for internet access to browse lemmy on our phones, but also for more fundamental parts like managing our increasingly more complex power grids and logistic chains. The article already mentions some of the reasons already.

Recent sabotage/accidents destroying undersea cables have shown how vulnerable crucial links are and how easily they can be destroyed. Satelite connections can be a good (and harder to disrupt) fallback option. On the military side Starlik has shown how crucial it can be in the war in Ukraine, and at the same time the dangers of it being controlled by someone like Elon Musk. Do we in Europe really want this dependence? With advances in satelite imagery and better internet connections satelites networks will also become increasingly more important for the economy. Again, do we want to rely on others for this fundamental part of infrastructure?

Europe must become "a space power once again, with France at its heart," he said.

This however frustrates me. Because as much as i think Macron in many ways has the right mindset that Europe needs to step up and act like its size, the "with France at its heart" part is exactly why it won't happen. As long as individual contries have this selfish attitude and try to claim as much as possible for themselves instead of cooperating and putting the collective first, it just won't happen.