Misleading title. Brexit will not be renegotiated, it's over and done with. The relation between the UK and the EU will always be an evolving matter (like the relation of the EU and any other country including its members), bit Brexit is done, the UK is out and that's the new premise of any discussion and evolution of the relation.

Then you're not good, you're just law compliant.

Shocking if true

He's doing it right now, cutting water and electricity to millions, taking advantage with everyone's obsession with Gaza..

Strong Jesus win here

Excellent 😁

So will we finally be able to watch "Parlement" outside France ahead of the European elections?

Austria is not applying Schengen in some of its borders currently, therefore should not have the right of veto. Instead it should be questioned if Austria should be allowed to continue in Schengen considering that it's the number 1 country closing Schengen borders on a regular basis.

Sorry about your dog. But your example only highlights a tabu issue in these discussions, the negative impact that having a pet has. They consume meat, packaged food, are driven around, attack wild fauna (cats especially) etc. Pets is one of the items everyone should cut, but they're only becoming more common, like SUVs.

The person under an abusive situation easily loses the car key to the abuser.

Ambulances get stuck all the time in congestioned cities and that's a problem.

A car should never be someone's night shelter, that person is homeless in that case. Houses, not cars, can solve the problem.

Want to do a special trip where car is the most convenient option? You can rent one out. If you only use a car a few times a year, buying one is a terrible waste of money and street space.

I think you meant 3706 years old.

I use them for running during winter and that's a non issue.

As far as I know these anti-theft measures they demand are optional in Europe and you pay extra for them. If crime is low is not such an issue not having them. So maybe Chicago should bet on reducing crime instead?

The retirees don't last so long (sorry), but overtourism is indeed a problem. Finding the right balance is the secret but clearly our politicians are not aiming for that.. but in fairness, tourism was fantastic for many years to promote Porto's renewal. But now it's time to put a break on it but no one is interested in that :/

As an European I'm extremely confused by this news as well.. so Chicago has a high crime problem and the city's solution is to sue Asian carmakers? Sorry but this only makes sense in the US, I guess..

PS: maybe Hyundai should also sue Chicago city for failing to curb crime, a failure that leads to many car thefts?

You can buy very decent wine for less than 3€/bottle in any Portuguese supermarket 😅

Touched a nerve, did I? I would gladly ban horse trailers or leisure boats as well by the way. A small sacrifice to avoid human extinction. But yeah, blind selfishness will definitely kill us. Your petty luxuries are more important I guess.

I think "unlimited" is a way too big word considering all the limitations, I'm not even sure what's left after these:

Unlike Germany’s identically priced travel pass, however, the Portuguese ticket is not available on buses or on intercity trains such as the Alfa Pendular, Intercidades, InterRegional and Internacional services.

It is also not valid for urban networks in Porto, Lisbon and Coimbra.

Where is Portugal’s €49 rail pass valid? The new national train pass can be used on most regional services around the country, but there are a couple of excluded areas.

Both the Alentejo Litoral and the Coimbra area are not participating in the scheme.

This means the pass is not valid on routes including Régua-Pocinho (Douro Line), Coimbra-Figueira da Foz (suburban Coimbra), Pinhal Novo-Évora and Pinhal Novo-Vila Nova da Baronia (Alentejo Line), and Pinhal Novo-Tunes (Southern Line).

"one parking space" is not a universal measurement unit, they come in many different sizes.

Japan is probably the cleanest country I've ever been to and you rarely see a bin on the street. Easily accessible bins promote carelessness with the trash you produce. If there are no bins you need to think ahead and plan how you'll dispose of your trash.

It already is. The doubt is when will it "sell voluntarily" Siberia to China.

No, not all cars are created equally. Some require much more public space and some are also much more efficient at killing.

We should have implemented this years ago, since the US did it on us. But it should only be required to countries with equivalent programs. This is "de facto" a visa and visa-free travel is quickly dieing out. Soon many other countries will introduce the same procedures..

ESTA (the American one) is even stricter than a visa on arrival, as without it you can't even board the plane. We should call it what it is, it's a visa, sure an e-visa, but a visa nonetheless.

Try dieting and exercise, getting a monster truck won't help you.

That's clearly a residential area if someone would hit their cars it would happen either way.. you're supposed to drive slowly there.

True.

Exactly. I was in Sweden recently and it's opressive how difficult it is to use cash. For everything it's only card or apps, I didn't even bother to get any local cash. But I had a few SEK from years ago and I couldn't use them.

In Portugal is not on the constitution but it's law, a business cannot force the client to pay by other means if the client has enough cash to make the payment for payments under 3000€ (above this you actually can't pay cash by the same law :P).

So you want to dismantle the west, that is the most functional, equal and free region of the world and only then go after the "smaller threats" (that is f* Russia with its second biggest nuclear arsenal in the world, currently involved in a genocidal war to increase its territory, besides all the side conflicts from Syria to Niger). Just wow at your total delusion, that's what speaking from a point of privilege is.

Businesses do lots of waste, I agree. But again, businesses exist because they have customers. Some people seem to believe that the climate crisis can be solved with taxes alone, but that's not how it works. Huge changes on all levels are required.

How do you think those companies pollute? Are they burning fuel at Shell's headquarters? Or do they have lots of customers who think their personal behavior doesn't matter?

No you can't. How do you think those corporations pollute? Do they do it for fun or because they have customers that feed their businesses? The idea that "heading corporations responsible" will magically solve all problems and that it doesn't imply any change in your lifestyle is beyond naive. Shell pollutes because people buy and burn their fuel, they're not burning it in their headquarters.

Oh America, come on:

• end (and stop exporting) that vicious tipping culture of yours. Just pay decent wages to people in customer service.

• change the design of yours bills, make them easily recognizable, with different colors and sizes like normal curencies.

• take religion out of the money.

• and since I'm at it, end gun culture and disarm your people. Also SUVs, end that too. And introduce controlled prices in health services, regulate, regulate, regulate, till it becomes a functional system affordable by everyone.

Thanks. I would love you so much more.

Swedes pilling up Qurans for the winter to save on wood in 1, 2..

The original ones.

Did I say that? Did I say they're the only ones? I didn't. I said that that extra pollution serves no good purpose. It's for a status symbol and it's not just in the US. Of course it's not the only thing killing the planet but it's the easiest thing to cut, and not even that is being cut.

This car is a status symbol. It's completely over dimensioned. It pollutes much more, without any added value in transport, harming air quality (people's health) and climate, it diminishes other's views on the road, it diminishes driver's own view of a child crossing the road, it kills much more easily any unfortunate pedestrian. it's a very strong statement of "fuck everyone else but me", damaging this car count as self-defense.

I think in general they're not so we'll established in the countries where they never bothered to build a true national store. If I'm not mistaken their national stores in Europe, still from the time they were known for selling books, were France, UK, Germany and Italy. Spain came later and I think it's also a bit less dominant there.

I shopped with them years ago for my running watch. Never again, been boycotting it for years and it's really not that hard. There are alternatives, including physical shops.

For e-books I became a client of Kobo and one of the things I like about it is that you don't have to just buy them from Kobo. I've been actively buying ebooks directly from publishers and manually transferring to the e-reader. It's worth the effort to prevent new monopolies. Shop with the small guy whenever the price difference is small or the quality difference is worth it.

It's a fascist and imperialistic government, they probably think that the chaos from climate change open opportunities for them.. the old "from the chaos a new order will be born".

Value the freedom to burn corans in Sweden and Denmark. Thousands of people suffer horrible punishments and even death for so much less across the Muslim world. The least we can do in the privileged west is to show them that blasphemy is possible and "God" doesn't punish anyone. Its zealots know it, they also don't trust god to punish the infidels, they take the business in their own hands.

I don't have much hopes for the average African leader... many of them will by this. Europe should definitely focus help and investments on the few African nations with reasonable leaders that don't treat Europe as the threat and Russia as the friend. Investing one cent in the countries with leaders educated in the former USSR is a waste of ressources, they're brainwashed since youth. We need to separate the wheat from the chaff.