There are currently plans for over 226GW of grid sized battery storage in Germany, so a bit of lead time is possible. Weather forecasts are a thing as well, so the grid operators will have a good idea, about how much power is available at any given time.

But there are a lot of gas power plants in Germany already. If you want them just as back up, it would be easier to just convert coal power plants to biomass. For 2% it should be fine.

20GW is way too much. Peak coal this year was 22GW and there is a huge wave of battery power plants coming as well. Seriously if you have to, just keep coal plants connected to the grid, in case of an emergency.

China serves China and only China. Fundamentally they do not care about Ukraine that much. They trade with Russia, because they profit from it. At the same time, the EU cares a lot about Ukraine and China would look good brokering the peace deal. Not just to Europe, but the rest of the world as well. That has real value. So they have contacts with both sites and at least some interest in peace.

Oh and it would make the US look really weak.

We really need to look at the good side of things. Every time anybody suggests any sort of change, Germans are going to focus on all the bad parts of it. In some ways that is good, as the downsides are known, but way too often it ends up with good ideas being shut down, just because they have some negative side effects.

Chocolate was worth it.

We need something like qualified majority for pretty much all EU decisions. Maybe not new members or something like that, but general foreign policy, taxes and the like.

The difference is that China was and is run by the CCP for a long time. However the US just recently turned away from being somewhat democratic. So Europeans do not change their attitude on China that much, which in general is relativly negative anyway.

A lot of it is oil and gas, so getting rid of that helps a lot. Not like other oil producers are much better. At least most of them.

Armenia…

Italy is run by the far right, Poland was run for some time, Hungary is clearly far right, Romania seems to want to elecet a far right president, Slovakia has one already, France has Le Pen in a very strong position to become president, in Germany polling suggests the AFD is the largest party now, Greece has a far right government as well, the Netherlands got Wilders in government, Austria has had far right parties in government recently.

To be fair so far only Hungary is properly done for, but it is not looking great.

“everyone else also did it” didn’t seem to protect the Nazis during their prosecution so I think that’s a garbage argument to make.

Nazis also eat bread like everybody else. Sometimes everybody else doing something is just because it is the normal thing to do. Talking with a Nazi, does not make you a Nazi.

she could’ve done the bare minimum of making a public statement and try to sway EU members to stop the arms sales. instead, she encourages everyone to intensify the genocide.

She does call for immediate ceasefires, humanitarian breaks and so forth pretty often, has increased EU aid to Gaza and supported placing EU sanctions on Israeli settlers. Not exactly the sort of stuff happening in a genocide.

that’s reason enough for an ICJ case.

Von der Leyen is not a country, so the ICJ has jurisdiction over her. The ICC could do that, but so far they only went against Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Most of those were related to Israel blocking food into Gaza, which von der Leyen actively opposed.

Why? The only arguments made in it, are that she talks with the Israelis and that she does not stop arms sales to Israel. Foreign policy including banning arms sales requires all members to agree, which is not going to happen. Von der Leyen and no EU offical for that matter can do that. So her only crime is that she continued to have diplomatic relations with Israel, which is also the case for most other countries in the world.

The argument to charge her for that crime seems to me to be incredibly weak.

Tesla is not a Swedish company, so shareholders can not sue it in Sweden.

That is why Musk has bought the president.

This years budget of the foundation is GBP 651.900,00. So this will help them a lot.

https://osmfoundation.org/w/images/8/89/OpenStreetMap_Foundation_Draft_Budget_2025-Ver_8.pdf

It was done, because they could win elections with it, as those policies were genuinly popular and still mostly are. After Fukushima the greens were winning state elections against the CDU. There are also a fairly high number of gay conservative politicans in Germany. Jens Spahn and Alice Weidel come to mind.

Both Spanish and Portugese officals have been talking about the possibility of a cyber attack. The fact that hours later we do not know what happened makes that unforunatly a possibility.

Article 25 3. The coastal State may, without discrimination in form or in fact among foreign ships, suspend temporarily in specified areas of its territorial sea the innocent passage of foreign ships if such suspension is essential for the protection of its security, including weapons exercises. Such suspension shall take effect only after having been duly published.

Temporary and security are not clearly defined.