Yes, but the trade deal also has a clause in it that the US has to honour their end of the deal.
If they don’t honour their part of the deal, the trade deal is null and void

This “trade deal” always was a rotten one, where the EU has to accept worse terms than it already had.

The only reason why we would even go along with that, is because Trump knows that there is a certain amount of reliance from Europe on the US in terms of defence. It really is a wake-up call to Europe that we can’t allow ourselves to depend on the US like we used to.

I agree that it’s a shame the US doesn’t engage with its allies in good faith anymore

Edit: Personally I think we should not even bother trying to appease Trump.

No matter what deal you reach with him, he will not honour it and demand more. Any trade deal reached with America is not even worth the paper it is written on.

Welp… Guess Europe now no longer needs to adhere to their side of the trade deal.
What a shame… /s

The headline is a bit vague, but this is reporting on the trust of SAP employees in the management at SAP.

Edit: And having the misfortune of needing to book my work hours in SAP, I don’t blame them…
It’s just about the worst coorporate software I have to deal with at my office.

This blog post is making my AI-senses tingle

I would not exactly call that “a long history of appeasing Nazis”

And regardless, the NL had the intention of remaining neutral in any conflict that might happen in Europe, just like they did in WW I.

Insulting the head of state of a neighbouring militaristic country is generally not wise if you intend to stay neutral.

Care to elaborate, or are you just gonna put out a statement like that without explaining what you mean?

The general idea of the snus-bans is that snus is not commonly consumed outside of the Nordics, so it’s better to pre-emptively ban it. They are trying to nip it in the bud before it becomes a problem.

Cigarettes are socially and culturally engrained after a century of normalization, and it’s a lot more difficult to ban it. Even vapes are already somewhat at the stage where it’s nornalized enough that outright banning it becomes difficult.

No problem. You can edit the post’s description to add the link after the fact.

It’s a paywalled article, so here’s an archival link

https://archive.is/8PwGR

“Smoke-free” in this case means fewer than 5% of people smoke daily. As of 2025 that figure stands at 4.8% in Sweden

The proportion of daily smokers dropped from 16 to 4.8 percent between 2003 and 2025, according to the new report.

Meanwhile, Sweden has seen a sharp increase in the use of snus in recent years – the small nicotine pouches popular in Sweden – a factor that the tobacco industry often highlights as a major reason for Sweden’s low proportion of smokers.

Fewer smokers is good of course, but I am not sure if the consumption of tabacco is really going down significantly. It rather seems to be moving from cigarettes to snus, which I’m not sure is a good thing.

Snus is banned in the rest of the EU. Sweden has an exemption on that ban, which they pre-emptively carved out when they were in talks for joining the EU

The reason why I remark on it being reasonable, is because over here in the Netherlands we have been seeing increasingly more places that just outright ban smoking on the entire premises. They specifically choose not to have designated smoking spaces.

In practice this does not work at all, because smoking is an addiction and you can’t expect smokers not to smoke for hours upon end. So in practice they smoke outside anyway, and you are worse off than you would have been in a situation with designated smoking spots.

New regulations from 2026 – smoking will only be permitted in designated smoking areas.

Frankly that seems to me like a pretty reasonable regulation. It’s not nearly as extreme as the post’s title would suggest.

As part of the trade agreement, Europe requires America to honour and implement their part of the agreement as well. If Trump starts raising tariffs again that would be a clear breach of the trade agreement, and Europe no longer has an obligation to honour their end of the deal either.

There is also an expiration date in the trade agreement for 2029, if I’m understanding correctly

Does anyone know whether the mutual acceptance of each others vehicle standards is still part of this agreement?

Back in August / September there was reporting that, as part of the trade deal, both parties would “accept and mutually recognise each others norms for cars” and that “the agreement voices a desire to align vehicle standards”

https://brusselsenieuwe.nl/europese-steden-slaan-alarm-grote-amerikaanse-autos-horen-niet-op-onze-weg/

I really do not want those massive American death-machines on European roads. It would undo decades of work making European roads safer.

Milka is Swiss and this is a German court case.
Where did you get the Americans from?

…accused of antisemitism…

Taking a stance on Israel’s war in Gaza does not automatically make one anti-Semitic 🙄

The article is from two weeks ago, so it’s probably safe to assume they’re the same case

I personally quite like the burgundy passport my country uses. And afaik most countries in the EU use burgundy for their passports.

What exactly would be the added value of changing the colour of our passports?

I think the term “agentic engineering” is used quite often for that these days.

This is old news. The European Parliament has already discussed this and voted on the matter.

They voted in favour of a motion to ban gay conversion therapy, and now it’s up to the European Commission.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/european-parliament-adopts-measure-to-ban-conversion-therapy/