Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.

#payments #fintech #eu #wero #datasovereignty

europeanbusinessmagazine.com/b…

Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

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Felon Trump’s reason for taking hundreds of thousands of pages of highly classified documents when he left office in January 2021, and then concealing them when the Justice Department subpoenaed him for their return in May 2022 has been one of the larger mysteries of the case. In a January 2023 “progress memo” reviewed by MS NOW, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office discussed the possible motive after the FBI discovered that Trump held on to and concealed many documents related to his businesses. MS NOW Senior Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig breaks down what her reporting reveals about the biggest traitor in American history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_…

#news #usa #eu #europenaunion #uk #france #deutschland #Poland #epstein

Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids
archive.is/2026.03.24-204653/p…

Ban the harmful algorithms of Big Tech social media instead.

#BigTech #SocialMedia #EU #Children

What if there was an Erasmus programme for people who just entered retirement?
The #EU funds #RailTravel passes for 18 year olds with the #discoverEU programme, what if it did something similar for people entering retirement?
Or, what if there was a pendant to the #EuropeanSolidarityCorps organised by municipalities that brought older people from twin cities together in projects?

Probably my favourite idea that ever came out of one of our workshops 💜

Chat control: EU Parliament rejects extension again

The EU Parliament had to vote again on the Commission's desired extension of "voluntary chat control" – and rejected it.

heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-…

#Chatkontrolle #Datenschutz #EU #Grundrechte #Netzpolitik #Überwachung #news

Chat control: EU Parliament rejects extension again

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It's important to remember that when #Orban does his #Putin bootlicking thing and blocks #EU funding for #Ukraine, all that happens is each individual country donates their share directly to Ukraine instead

It's still important though to make a big deal of it, to highlight what a massive piece of shit Orban is

This not #Warsaw, #Stallingrad, or #Berlin in 1944. This is #Gaza city in 2026.

The #Nazis didn't do this.
The #SovietUnion didn't do this.
#Iran didn't do this.

#America funded this.
#Germany profit from this.
The #EU is afraid to challenge this.

No country in the world is prepared to stop this.
Only people can make a difference.

It is not anti-semitic to fight #Israeli #WarCrimes.

Fight for these people because no one else will.

They are worth it.

“They don’t like the #EU”: Europe’s top diplomat says Washington wants to divide Europe

Read more here 📎

euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/13…

RE: social.publicspaces.net/@publi…

Happy to share the good news of another @publicspaces conference happening this year!

Join us on June 4, 5 and 6th in Amsterdam.

Looking forward to work on this once again 😄

#Tech #Fediverse #BigTech #TechPolicy #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026 #OpenSource #Ethics #AI #ATProto #SocialMedia #Democracy #SocialWeb #EU #NL #Conference

PublicSpaces (@publicspaces@publicspaces.net)

Attached: 1 image PublicSpaces Conference 2026 on June 4, 5 and 6! Together with @waag@waag.social we are happy to announce the 6th edition of the PublicSpaces Conference. This year, we will focus on the impact of technology on our democracy.

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BREAKING:
Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga:

“You claim to stand with the people of #Iran while you offer European bases to #US killing machines.

#eu #europe #uk #france #germany #netherlands #greece #italy #hungary #europeanunion #belgium #news #mastodon #socialmedia #trump #cdnpoli #uspol #politi #sovereignty #economy #resistance #antifascism #lfi #protest #freepalestine #china #russia #yemen #hezbollah #lebanon @politics @socialmedia @democracy #education #canada #Africa #justice #humanrights

Renaissance Française

#NuclearPower #EU #Macron #cartoon #karikatur

Our co-founder @michael represented the Newsmast Foundation last week at Rebuild, an event bringing together 60 European social platforms to take back control of social media.

There's a lot of work to do, but we're so proud to be part of a long overdue European movement calling for commitment to European social platforms.

You can see and sign the letter here: letter.rebuild.net/

#SocialWeb #EU #SocialMedia #Rebuild

the rebuild letter

Sign the rebuild letter to serve and support European social platforms.

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🇪🇺 Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

“With UnifiedAttestation, we are creating a transparent and trustworthy procedure for security checks that developers and app publishers can rely on equally. This removes the last hurdle for the use of alternative mobile operating systems,”

heise.de/en/news/Paying-withou…

#degoogle #digitalsovereignty #eu #opensource #android

Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.

^{Andreas Floemer (heise online)}

Tehran Times runs school-bombing victims’ photos on front page

Tehran: Iranian daily Tehran Times has published a front page featuring photographs of children killed in a bombing…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #Bellingcat #bombing #DonaldTrump #factcheck #Iran #Minab #school #TehranTimes #TheNewYorkTimes
europesays.com/iran/12182/

Saudi Arabia said to intensify talks with Iran to defuse Mideast war

Saudi Arabia has intensified direct engagement with Iran to help contain a war in the Middle East, Bloomberg…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran
europesays.com/iran/7538/

Iran-US conflict overview: Hormuz Strait closed, v…

Latest developments across the region The situation in the region is largely unchanged. Over 130 ships remain locked…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #StraitofHormuz #Hormuz
europesays.com/iran/7540/

No One, Not Even Beijing, Is Getting Through the Strait of Hormuz

Curiously, while almost all China-flagged vessels have chosen not to attempt transit, a Marshall Islands–flagged cargo ship named…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #StraitofHormuz #Hormuz
europesays.com/iran/7551/

Israeli airstrikes pound Tehran and Beirut as US warns attacks will escalate

(TNND) — Nearly a week after coordinated U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran, the conflict continues to intensify across the…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #Iran
europesays.com/iran/7548/

(7/n)

...finanziert werden?”

👉Die Beschlagnahmung folgt auf einen Streit um #Gaslieferungen, in dem #Ungarn und die #Slowakei #Kiew vorwarfen, die Reparatur einer #Pipeline nach einem offensichtlichen #russischen Drohnenangriff absichtlich verzögert zu haben. Als Reaktion darauf legte #Orbán sein Veto gegen weitere #EU-Sanktionen gegen #Russland und ein zusätzliches Darlehen in Höhe von 90 Milliarden Euro für die #Ukraine ein.👈“

Dieser wichtige Punkt...

And STILL felon Trump refuses to allow #Ukraine to destroy Russia's shahed production, despite it now costing American lives.

Trump is willing to sacrifice as many American lives as needed to save Putin.

#Ukraine #eu #Europe #France #Deutschland #news #usa

...real question is simple: who is behind this money and what is it supposed to finance?”

👉The seizure follows a dispute over gas supplies, in which #Hungary and #Slovakia accused #Kiev of deliberately delaying repairs to a #Pipeline after it was hit by an apparent #Russian drone attack. In response, #Orbán vetoed further #EU sanctions against #Russia and an additional €90 billion loan for #Ukraine...👉

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iltempo.it/esteri/2026/03/06/n…

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Ungheria, sequestrato convoglio con oro e milioni di euro e dollari: arrestato anche un generale ucraino

L'Ungheria ha sequestrato milioni di euro in contanti e oro da un convoglio ucraino e ha arrestato sette uomini. Tutti ucraini. L'accusa &egra...

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The #EuropeanCommission and other #EU institutions have been present on #Mastodon for some time.
However, there is still no reference to #fediverse #socialmedia on European institutional websites, while the traditional ones are still present.
Why not update these pages, highlighting an ethical policy choice?

@EUCommission

@EC_DIGIT

@HennaVirkkunen

If you were planning to stay on top of the latest developments in EU Careers and the #EPSO competitions, you can't do it anymore on #X. They just closed their account there.

#LeaveX #SocialMedia #EU

The European Commission has registered a new Citizen Initiative, calling for a European social media platform.
In detail: The initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legislative act, “a public social media platform at the European level”. That "would form an alternative to the current platforms and work as a service for the society, be funded by the society and be under its oversight”.
ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc…

#EU #SocialMedia #Mastodon #SocialMedia

Commission registers European Citizens\' Initiative calling for a European social media platform

Today, the European Commission has registered a European Citizens\' Initiative (ECI), entitled ‘European Public Social Network\'.\nThe initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legislativ

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