The Financial Exclusion Tracker - a project maintained by some NGOs - lists 14 investment entities that had publicly blacklisted Tesla as per Sepember 2024, the database’s latest available data.

The linked website contains information about the exclusions by 93 financial institutions in 17 countries, covering 5531 companies from 135 countries. There are 63,427 exclusions so far.

The most common motivation for excluding companies is Climate (47%). This is followed by Weapons (14%) and Tobacco (13%). Other categories include Country policy (7%), Product-based exclusion (6%), Human rights (5%), Business practices (3%), Undisclosed motivation (3%), Environment (3%).

The top countries in the exclusion tracker are the U.S. and China, counting for 21% and 15% of all exclusions, respectively.

Very interesting data, you can also download the raw data for own analysis if interested.

After SAP rolled back its DEI guidelines after Trump issued his self-defined “anti-woke” decree, it’s maybe another step taken by SAP for fear of loosing business in the U.S.?

Playing With Fire: Are Russia’s hybrid attacks the new European war? – [March 2025]

Faced with a dwindling number of experienced intelligence agents on the ground, with many expelled after the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia is now resorting to low-level operatives recruited through Telegram or similar social networks to conduct dozens of attempted or successful attacks in Europe, according to court records and security sources. These “disposable agents” have carried out cyberattacks but also riskier actions that included massive fires, incendiary devices destined for cargo planes, vandalism, and influence campaigns targeting the heart of Europe’s democracies- its voters.

UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway sanction 2 far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich face asset freezes and travel bans from the five countries.

What does he say about Russia’s ‘military Keynesianism’?

I think Yanis is a hypocrite. No military spending is fine as long as all parties play by the rule of law and accept universal human rights. This is not the case. Yanis is addressing the wrong party here.

I guess this answers your question.

What do they do with the radioactive waste?

Addition: The UK’s largest nuclear site could continue leaking radioactive water until the 2050s, MPs have warned, while its clean-up operations struggle to progress quickly enough

He laments Europe’s military Keynesianism and thinks it’s not wise to spend all that money on defense.

Maybe Yanis could also get an invitation to live in Oleksandr Usyk’s house for a while?. Just to see whether he changes his mind.

Btw, this ‘military Keynesiasm’ - the economic policy stating that war and military spending is the basis for economic growth - is something that has been propagated and implemented by Russia, including by the economist Andrey Belousov, Russia’s current defence minister. Is Russia’s budget well-balanced according to Yanis?

Yeah, and it is not even real reporting, it’s a few paragraphs citing a politician widely known to be pro-Russian anyway.

In addition to @pelya@lemmy.world’s comments, you don’t have to be afraid that the police knocks on your door because you liked the ‘wrong’ post, or said something the government doesn’t like. That’s a major difference.

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Consumer sentiment is ‘improving’ in Germany, and rising at the fastest rate since last summer, according to the latest consumer barometer by the German Retail Association HDE

The HDE Consumer Barometer for June 2025 noted that while ‘optimism is growing among consumers’, a more consistent improvement in consumer sentiment will be necessary to drive a noticeable recovery in consumption […]

Consumers’ propensity to buy is on the increase, the HDE noted, continuing a trend of recent months, however this is echoed by intentions to intensify their savings efforts, a lingering effect of the overall economic environment […]

How do you hold it ‘by the balls’ if you hold its bonds? This is just an empty rant that makes no sense.

Would be interesting to know who the buyers were.

This is not limited to Germany, although labour markets across global economies show different developments. In the U.S. the unemployment rate is still relatively low, similarly to Europe: In April 2025, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2%, down from 6.3% in March 2025 and from 6.4% in April 2024. The EU unemployment rate was 5.9% in April 2025, stable compared with March 2025 and down from 6.0% in April 2024.

In the world’s second largest economy the situation is grim supposedly to due Trump’s tariff conundrum and a low private domestic consumption: job losses in China’s manufacturing sector signal deepening economic strain and ineffective stimulus efforts as the country’s Caixin Manufacturing PMI dropped to 48.3 in May, the lowest since Q3 2022, signaling shrinking output.

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Attentively observed. It’s not true, though. I have been dealing with colleagues from there for some time and try to get closer to that language. I am not too successful for now unfortunately, but keep developing :-))

As @hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz already said in this thread, the title is a bit clickbaity. Not that I’m a fan of the new Polish president, but he said “at the moment” he is against Ukraine’s entry into the European Union,” and added that, “On the one hand, we must support Ukraine in its conflict with the Russian Federation.”

The French also support Ukraine joining NATO, as do the British, the Poles, and many others (you’ll find it easily on the web).

Finland plans to raise its defence spending to 5% of gross domestic product by 2032, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said.

The country is already committed to increasing defence expenditure to 3.5 percent of GDP […]

According to Orpo, the added military, interest and social costs will be covered through economic growth. The prime minister did not commit to any further austerity measures or borrowing to fund the proposed defence increases […]

Addition:

Sweden backs NATO’s 5% GDP Defense Spending, too, and so did already many other countries as you’ll find on the web.

No one has said that France or any other country should spent less on welfare. We need both.

Addition:

Defence or Welfare? Europe Can Afford Both, and Must

Framing welfare against defence is a politically damaging proposition. It is easy to see how this could be exploited by anti-EU populists and Europe’s adversaries. President Putin, undoubtedly, would welcome such a division. But the entire narrative that Europe faces a supposedly unavoidable choice between protecting its social model and bolstering its defences is not only politically unfortunate; it is empirically unfounded […]

This is on topic:

Russian defense spending eclipsed all other European countries combined in 2024 and is projected to increase further in 2025, according to a report published by UK’s International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in February 2025.

The IISS found that Moscow’s military expenditure spiked by over 40 percent to almost $146 billion [in 2024], equivalent to 6.7 percent GDP, and is on track to hit 7.5 percent GDP in 2025. When adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), Russia spent nearly $462 billion in 2024, effectively leapfrogging Europe’s collective spending. PPP is a tool used to remove price level differences between currencies in order to better demonstrate the purchasing strength of one over another.

IISS’ estimates are in line with Russia’s official budget numbers for 2024. According to the Kremlin’s plans released back in last fall, defence spending will account for 32% of the total 2025 budget expenditure.

So it seems France and the others will have to find a way to manage this.