Well put, thanks for sharing. I submitted many of the same arguments as you, but not as eloquently or thoroughly :)

“Europe is the American tech sector’s biggest market after the United States itself. It all depends on trust. Trust requires dialogue,” Smith said.

Trust has been destroyed from the top. Trust is easy to loose and hard to gain

Pilot project is a good start.

Hopefully they consult with the federal government of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Austriaan Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism on their experiences

That’s neat :) I like the concept of a collection of warm&fuzzies symbols

How are you making the stickers? It looks like each sticker is composite of multiple snippets of art?

Correct! And yet…

wtf is 2026/1/4? is that January, or April. who sent this… where are they located?

Though to be fair the chances of ISO 8601 goes up when year comes first

Paywalled, so can’t comment on the whole article.

But the excerpt does not support the headline: Share of EU GDP says nothing about internal or external trade growing or shrinking, only that the relative amount of external to internal trade move to slightly more external