Is it? All I see is a ton of buzzwords and political slogans that mean whatever one wants them to mean.
JumpCrisscross 45 minutes ago [-]
> Is it?
Idk. It’s draft legislation.
It might be bunk. But it’s more than the usual EU nonsense of convening a committee to propose a plan to think hard about something Hungary can veto in 2045.
petre 15 minutes ago [-]
Really? The plan will just exclude Hungary and whatever other trojan state run by monkeys vetoes it. If the original EU states prior to 2004 plus Poland decide that it's getting done, it will get done eventually.
Member states are not that stupid to refuse EU funds. They just oppose things when EU funds are going towards other non EU members through association agreements.
google234123 24 minutes ago [-]
I think they should shut down more nuclear energy plans.
TacticalCoder 43 minutes ago [-]
We've seen how amazing the EU has been for Europe. One EU company in the Top 50 companies in the world by market cap: ASML.
Big round of applause.
The Chips Act 2.0, for the 1.0 did... Nothing at all?
It's the "If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, tax it more. Tax is until it doesn't move at all anymore. Then subsidize it.".
It's a strategy from losers and by losers.
There's no way the EU shall ever compete again (we at least had some chip industry in the beginning) with the EU or China on CPUs/GPUs. That's never going to happen.
The only thing europeans can hope for is to leech on open-source efforts to diminish their reliance on big US software companies but... The same EU bureaucrats who are making big announcements explaining how the EU shall become relevant again are, in illegal backroom deals, taking bribes from Microsoft (one of the company that has the most to lose if the EU gets serious about embracing open source).
TL;DR from bureaucratese: to make the EU "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" capable of sustainable economic growth with more jobs and greater social cohesion.
As of 2026, everyone can see for themselves what the previous long game has delivered. Not even that social cohesion; everyone is fighting over entitlements and blaming someone else (boomers, immigrants, techbros, childless people) for ruining the system.
watwut 5 minutes ago [-]
I mean, techbros are the curse on humanity regardless of where you live. That part is 100% true.
But also, blaming boomers and childless people is mostly an American thing as far as I can tall.
So like, you got only the immigrants right, but again, America is no different then EU there.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...
Idk. It’s draft legislation.
It might be bunk. But it’s more than the usual EU nonsense of convening a committee to propose a plan to think hard about something Hungary can veto in 2045.
Member states are not that stupid to refuse EU funds. They just oppose things when EU funds are going towards other non EU members through association agreements.
Big round of applause.
The Chips Act 2.0, for the 1.0 did... Nothing at all?
It's the "If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, tax it more. Tax is until it doesn't move at all anymore. Then subsidize it.".
It's a strategy from losers and by losers.
There's no way the EU shall ever compete again (we at least had some chip industry in the beginning) with the EU or China on CPUs/GPUs. That's never going to happen.
The only thing europeans can hope for is to leech on open-source efforts to diminish their reliance on big US software companies but... The same EU bureaucrats who are making big announcements explaining how the EU shall become relevant again are, in illegal backroom deals, taking bribes from Microsoft (one of the company that has the most to lose if the EU gets serious about embracing open source).
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/summits/lis1_en.htm
TL;DR from bureaucratese: to make the EU "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" capable of sustainable economic growth with more jobs and greater social cohesion.
As of 2026, everyone can see for themselves what the previous long game has delivered. Not even that social cohesion; everyone is fighting over entitlements and blaming someone else (boomers, immigrants, techbros, childless people) for ruining the system.
But also, blaming boomers and childless people is mostly an American thing as far as I can tall.
So like, you got only the immigrants right, but again, America is no different then EU there.