We have both unfortunately

You got the part where it’s nice to have someone to blame if it goes bad but forgot the part where it’s nice to show off your smart financial choices when it goes good.

Vučić’s second and last mandate expires in mid-2027.

Maybe he is trying to get into the world Guiness book for first fascist to leave politics early without having a plan to not really leave. You never know, somebody has to be the first.

Thanks for calling me out on this; because you are right that just the fact of there being democracy alone does not say anything about how fucked an individual is. I based my statements on news that reached me from various sources, and while it’s too big a task to dig up those articles, I looked up some of the data to check how right I am. Turns out the people are mainly more fucked when it comes to political rights and civil liberties, less so when it comes to other important things.

Freedom House gives countries a ‘Freedom in the World’-score from 0-100, the oldest record for Burkina Faso is from 2017 (https://freedomhouse.org/country/burkina-faso/freedom-world/2017), and from then on it’s score decreases each year from 63/100 to 20/100 this year. If you’re genuinely interested please check all data there.

Healthwise, people aren’t as clearly less or more fucked then before; child mortality is still declining, and life expectancy is still increasing based on data from the WHO (https://data.who.int/countries/854). If you look at the graph there on Universal Health Coverage and Health Emergency Protection you can see a sharp decline in 2023, but a steady increase before the military coup which seems to be continuing from a lower base.

Economically it is also not as clearly good or bad. based on info from the world bank (https://data.worldbank.org/country/burkina-faso), gdp is increasing and poverty is declining. There was a sharp increase in inflation around the time of the coup, but at the same time unemployment decreased.

In case there is a tankie in the comments, yes these are all western institutions, i don’t care if you believe the data to be untrustworthy because i do trust the data despite their questionable impact on (some parts of) the globe.

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Under legislation submitted to Parliament this week, renewable energy producers will no longer lose state-backed operating support when wholesale electricity prices fall to zero. Instead, support payments will be suspended only when power prices remain negative for more than two consecutive hours. The measure will apply retroactively from June 1, 2026.

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BRUSSELS — The European Commission has preliminarily concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should fall under the EU’s digital dominance rules, in a move that extends Europe’s most powerful tech regulation into cloud infrastructure for the first time.

The decision, which follows a market investigation launched last November, marks an expansion of the Digital Markets Act — which has so far covered consumer-facing platforms, app stores and search engines — into the €220 billion European market for cloud computing services.

Both companies will now have the opportunity to argue why their cloud services should not be designated gatekeepers before the Commission reaches a final decision in the administrative procedure by December.

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Not to say the current military regime is a good thing, but it’s not like the French have treated France Afrique countries with good intentions since decolonisation. Surely the people there are more fucked now then 5-10 years ago, and fuck Russia and China for their part in this, but the people of Burkina Faso have been fucked way before that 2022 coupe the article mentions.

Easy: Pay them as much as the industry

Gathering those kinds of funds as simple peasants is not easy at all :(

Because in a democracy the majority is calling the shots.

I’m confused, you just said those with money call the shots. Is it because the politicians aren’t the only ones receiving big bags of money? We the peasants not only need responsible politicians but also responsible (and well-funded) media outlets.

To be fair, it is easier to sell a shitty car if it isn’t expensive

You copied the data and sorted the data in a way that is not what the article is about. If i copied that table and sorted the countries alfabetically, i also wouldn’t have “fixed it”. I meant to imply your “fix” is inferior to the already provided article, dispute the effort you put into your reply.

Honestly the entire UK government and public organisations generally in the UK should remove themselves from Twitter/X.

Honestly every self-respecting government and every reputable organisation should.

I was in Andalusia two years ago can highly recommend.

I considered an upvote for your effort, but then i realised you failed to sort by YoY change and also didn’t link the source, so decided to comment with this petty remark instead.

Lots of things said in the article, could be worth reading, but the question in the headline doesn’t really get a clear answer imo. More fitting headline would be “Ten years on, has the Brexit vote helped or hindered the UK?” Answering that question is, based on the article, much more simple: Brexit didn’t help, it hindered the UK.

I usually only look for amount of princes willing to give me money as a metric, but i guess it would be better to add amount of moose attacks as a metric as well, thanks!

Well to be fair we’ve awakened to the ‘the US is always protectecting us’-dream, but not to the ‘having everything made in China is good for us’-dream. Most of us are knee deep in denial.

Upvote for adding the trainingwheels

France is based. They’ve been shouting we should care about strategic autonomy and digital sovereignty way before it was cool (and really necessary).

So a Chinese company gets an improved private streetview, and we have do with the American streetview? That’s just great Europe.