To provide a context, Greece ranks only 89th in 2025, down form 88th last year, in the Global Press Freedom Index

Addition: But Europe looks pretty good in general.

However, according to the latest Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threat Report by the European External Action Service (EEAS) - the diplomatic service of the European Union - published in March 2025 there have been record levels of foreign manipulation, particularly from Russia and China. The EEAS report recorded more than 500 coordinated manipulation campaigns targeting 90 European countries.

I am not so sure whether China has interest in peace. That’s a pretext at best, but the Chinese government’s only interest appears to be somewhere else.

According to Chinese state-controlled media outlet South China Morning Post, China’s Xi Jinping kicked off his state visit to Russia this week by thanking Moscow for supporting Taiwan’s reunification with mainland China.

In a signed article in Russia’s state-run Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper … [Xi Jinping wrote that Taiwan’s] unification [with China] must be upheld as part of the post-war international order … Celebrating the “enduring friendship” between Moscow and Beijing, he said the two countries had supported each other since World War II …

So Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s aggression against Taiwan are closely linked. Beijing wants control over Taiwan (and supposedly over the South China Sea and other neighbouring areas in Asia, including a part of Siberia which is currently Russian territory). That the US may look weak is maybe a side note.

One example why I think it is an accurate comparison in many ways as I just read a BBC article on a Hong Kong “pro-China informer” who reported dozens of people to police - from a woman waving a colonial-era flag in a shopping mall, to bakery staff selling cakes with protest symbols, who then were sometimes handed year-long jail terms for their “crimes”.

When reading this it reminded me on the Nazi-era Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret State Police) and its spy network, when ordinary people - your neighbour, your colleague, or just a ‘friend’ - would denounce you for being critical of the regime (or sometimes just motivated for some personal conflict, which also happened back then), and you would end up in jail or ‘disappear’.

Imagine a society where everyone could be a spy and denouncing you for something.

Nothing is 100% perfect, but there are strong parallels.

I firmly believe that the Chinese government wouldn’t use its influence (if we assume there is one) to get a fair deal for anyone except itself.

Yes, and even some admins and mods support this propaganda unfortunately.

Downvote for the next clickbait headline.

Here is an alternative article:

Office for the Protection of the Constitution suspends classification of the AfD as far-right for the time being

… This does not mean that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is deviating from its assessment of the AfD, but only that it is keeping quiet about it publicly. … This is a tactical procedural move. The AfD can now no longer claim that the court has forbidden the secret service from reporting on the upgrade …

In addition, the [legal] proceedings could now be accelerated …

Canadian retailers are seeing a surge in domestic sales amid the ‘Buy Canadian’ movement – (April 2025)

The “Buy Canadian” movement is already delivering promising results across the retail sector. Major retailers such as Loblaws Companies have reported a 10 per cent increase in sales of Canadian-made products. Sobey’s parent company Empire also noted a decline in sales of U.S.-sourced goods.

Importantly, the shift isn’t limited to big retailers or headline product categories. Smaller retailers and established brands are also seeing tangible benefits.

You may also be interested in https://buycanadianmart.ca/

Addition:

The ‘buy Canadian’ sentiment remains very strong, with a majority seeking Canadian products – (May 2025)

I personally don’t think this would effect Canada or any other democratic country. I maybe mistaken, of course, but this appears to be more related to defending specific values rather than working against a specific country.

Europe should not only just aim at boycotting from the US, but also from China where many of these cheap products come from. It wouldn’t make sense to replace Amazon by Temu.

A better comparison here is the adjusted gross disposable income of households per capita in PPS (Purchasing Power Standards). The major difference to the salary figure is that the disposable income represents the total amount a household earns minus current taxes on income. This is essentially the amount of money people have ‘at their disposal’ as the name suggests.

This adjusted gross disposable income of households per capita in PPS in the EU shows a different picture. The EU average is at EUR 2,337 (compared to EUR 3,155 as Euronews’ salary), and the data is closer together than in Euronews’ salary report.

But as others have already said, even this is not very meaningful. If you want to compare the living standards of people, you can’t do this by using a single metric. You’ll need a dashboard of different measures AND I suggest that even then there may be factors that can’t be measured at all. The salary is only one -and, in my humble opinion, a very weak- measure and I’d agree with @Kennystillalive@feddit.org’s comment in this thread that it has “absolutely zero value for the average Joe.”

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SolarPower Europe (the association for the European PV sector) has just published a report on solutions to mitigate critical cybersecurity risks.

TLDR: The report suggests to mandate solar-specific cybersecurity controls for securing remote-controlled solar PV infrastructure, and to limit remote access and control of EU solar PV systems from outside the EU via the inverter. On the latter, the report recommends following an approach similar to GDPR rules, where control of distributed devices, like small-scale rooftop solar systems, should only take place in regions judged equivalent in security to the EU.

Here are resources across several countries: https://supportukrainenow.org/

Yeah, I guess it’s not a surprise. The real news imho is that a high-ranking official is calling out a foreign government. That’s still a rare event in global diplomacy, but arguably nessecary as Russia, China, Iran and others appear to permanently testing boundaries to ‘normalize’ a situation.

The President of this country north of the Gulf of Mexico appears to become weirder and weirder every day, no?

@mathemachristian@lemm.ee

You are just watching staged videos that are trading truth for views as part of a genocidal policy spreading a propaganda version of life for Uyghurs.

Edit to add one of your alt accounts: @mathemachristian@hexbear.net

Xiaohongshu

The little red book is a propaganda tool where everything is censored unless it completely aligns with the Chinese Communist Party’s narratives.

You are questioning dozens of sources here from the EU, UK, US, NZ, and I don’t know how many other countries from around the globe, stories told by eye witnesses who could escape the concentration in China, scholars, rights activists, researchers, investigative journalists - only to then provide a single source which is the CCP.

Stay away from these sources and get a life.

@mathemachristian@lemm.ee

Whereas I’ve seen videos of beautiful uyghur festivals, uyghur mosques and it seems like the culture is thriving.

Where did you see these videos?

Call me a conspiracy theorist but these news about Uyghurs, and china hunting them down abroad came out right as Europe, SK and Japan was reconsidering their affiliation with China

In his seminal book, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, published in 2014, Professor Rian Thum from the University of Manchester in the UK, documents …

… how the Muslims of the region now called Xinjiang understood their past in the three centuries before the Cultural Revolution. Then he explains how that historical identity was torn apart, […] in the course of the 20th century.

This is really just one of an awful lot of very good sources on the subject that proves your statement that “these news about Uyghurs, and china hunting them down abroad came out right as Europe, SK and Japan was reconsidering their affiliation with China” simply false.

What I find weird here on Lemmy is that the obvious crimes against humanity committed by China are downplayed and often completely denied, even by some administrators and moderators.

Ah, then yes. I just understand @BullishUtensil’s comment that their bank is European. I am not sure, though.

I don’t think so. Why would they close your account? They might not share your data, but your account is still active imo, at least that’s my understanding here.