Nicolas Overloop

Tried the LIDL Cloud... Apart from a pretty bad signup experience (very long delays on verification codes)... What is the issue with accepting the rest of EU?

@POLITICOEurope Glad at least somebody realizes this. Now, at the speed Europe changes its laws it will be another 5 years before these laws are changed at which point we will only be 15 years behind the curve.

European regulations introduced 10 years ago were the beginning of the end for the continent’s position in the AI race, Finnish MEP Aura Salla said. “It all requires data if we want to develop any AI models. And that’s something that we are lacking in Europe.” #POLITICOAITech

@EuroTasteDaily @POLITICOEurope GDPR killed off many big data startups of which there were many in 2014. It also prevents European automotive manufacturers from developing self-driving technology as it requires indiscriminate data collection through cameras in the cars.

This narrative is worth challenging. Europe's data deficit is real. But GDPR didn't create it — the US platform dominance that preceded GDPR did. The question is whether different data rules would have produced European AI champions, or whether the capital market and talent pipeline gaps would have produced the same outcome regardless.

The best thing about 2026 so far is that my father finally stopped reading just Russian propaganda news and diversified to read both “alternative” and traditional news to see different perspectives.

@maria_drutska What about the airspace over Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria? Iran is already closed. They would have to fly over Pakistan.

Algeria has been acting as a key sanctions-evasion hub for Russia. Hundreds of cargo flights between Russia and other countries had stopovers in Algeria, using large transports like the An-124 and Il-76. Looks like another sanctions loophole needs to be closed.

You have to look at this line by line though, banks are extremely bad at technology and a vast amount is just keeping ancient dinosaur systems alive that run on Cobol or whatever on IBM mainframes. What is really stopping cross-border European banking is how debt claims are underwritten, registered and recovered (underwriting data, liens, claims, foreclosure). American banks have terrible underwriting data, US companies don't publish full accounts but in Europe every country publishes it's own version of accounts. Europe should just pull in a commitee of risk managers of every nation and ask them which documents they rely on and then standardize those and make them machine readable and independently verifiable. Ask them if they have problems collecting if things go wrong and why and then go and fix those issues (uniform procedures, centralized liens management so companies can't pledge collateral twice, clear order of claims in case of default,...) Allow blacklists across the union (now forbidden in some member states) for both company entities and people (subject to appeal to prevent abuse of power). Last, one must not confuse banking that deals with deploying pension capital (investment banking) with retail and SME banking. Goldman Sachs is primarily an investment bank serving pension funds. We don't have the scale of pension funds here which should be addressed by the supplementary pension reforms the commission has planned.

🔹 we need more cross border banking consolidation in Europe. We need scale to make the necessary technological investments

Our priorities for today’s Eurogroup: 🔹 to address the energy crisis we need to coordinate our measures

@mmeeuw Ze is geen hoofdeconoom meer, wellicht omwille van deze zwakke geopolitieke takes. Sanchez is gewoon corrupt en representeert het Turkse standpunt in Europa.

Phlippen -Hoofdeconoom ABN Amro - “Sanchez durft het aan om te zeggen: tot hier en niet verder tegen Putin en de VS. Hoe verder je bent met de energietransitie hoe minder kwetsbaar je bent voor regimes en zo’n oorlog. Hoe meer je kunt zeggen voor welke waarden je staat.

@txgermanbre They mostly post a wave of disinformation at 2-3am in europe so that no europeans counter their shit cause they’re asleep. It’s clearly coordinated

Why is the American hate campaign seem coordinated and intense? It’s because it’s a dark money funded ecosystem and billionaires are funding it. I’ll break down what I’ve found:

@stefanauer_hku Of course it can be done, an independent judiciary that applies the rules the same way to oligarchs as to common men is not something that would hinder the war effort.

@noverloop Was it ever realistic that Ukraine would implement Copenhagen criteria in the midst of war?

‘Ukraine doesn’t need symbolic membership in the EU’, Zelenskyy said. ‘Ukraine is defending itself and is definitely defending Europe. And it is not defending Europe symbolically -people are really dying.’ EU overpromising & underdelivering has consequences.

@Osint613 bullshit, oil will be higher for a very long time until the oil futures are delivered. Any oil company with even 2 IQ points will have locked in the higher price for years to come.

TRUMP: WHEN THIS WAR ENDS OIL, GAS AND EVERYTHING WILL COME TUMBLING DOWN

@KubiliusA seems good, the main question in defense though is what if a country chickens out. There's the law on the books and then there is the law of nature.

Very good & important analysis and answers to my questions regarding the path towards the European Defence Union. Thanks to Steven Blockmans & Karsten Meijer for intellectual input - a new intergovernmental treaty is the best way! verfassungsblog.de/european-defen…

EU Inc’s regulation is published and is looking very good. Great job @andreasklinger @benvdv ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

De Belgische regering is niet machteloos he, het kan de recommendaties voor die kapitaalmarktunie al invoeren zoals de autoenrollment voor supplementaire pensioenen alsook de individualiseerde pensioen beleggingsrekeningen. Ook op defensie kan het bilateraal al verder integreren door om. het benelux-overeenkomst over militaire export uit te breiden naar meer europese landen. Het idee dat we altijd op europa moeten wachten, die dan ellendig lange procedures heeft en waar nog landen bijzitten waar corruptie nog schering en inslag is in de regeringen. Vooruitgang boeken kan ook in 100 kleine stappen

'We hebben in Europa politieke moed en een hoop administratieve ingrepen — zoals het realiseren van een kapitaalmarktenunie — nodig, maar geen extra miljarden euro’s voor de EU.' Lees het interview met Europees Parlementslid @jvanovertveldt uit @tijd.👇 n-va.be/nieuws/intervi….

Sounds like nukes on Cuba tbh.

That's a pretty good video feed for 150km range.

@Mauritsvdr het uithollen van de democratie door maximalistische interpretatie van grondrechten moet stoppen in het algemeen. Het mensenrechtenverdrag is zo ook gemaximaliseerd dat een migrant die de grens even over springt nooit meer uitgezet kan worden.

De big government-gedachte in ons land is zo doorgeslagen dat een eeuwige werkloosheidsuitkering op kap van mensen die wél werken al als een mensenrecht wordt beschouwd. Gek genoeg is er juridisch daar ook een basis voor. Begin jaren '90 werd het "standstill-principe" ingevoerd. Dat is geen letterlijk grondwetsartikel. Maar door de uitleg die senatoren er destijds aan gaven, wordt het de rechters wel heel strikt toegepast: je mag niet aan het "welvaartsniveau" komen van mensen die er bewust voor kiezen van de staat te levne. Eens een sociaal recht wordt ingevoerd, is het door dit stand-still principe daarom bijna onmogelijk om het terug te schroeven. Dat is de ultieme communistische droom. Voer elke legislatuur de meest absurde sociale voordelen in. Daarna kunnen politici met verantwoordelijkheidszin het onmogelijk terugdraaien. In dit geval hebben vakbonden wel pech. Want er is één uitzondering: als de betaalbaarheid van diezelfde welvaartstaat in het gedrang komt, mag het wel afgeschaft worden. En laat ons nu net op dat punt gekomen zijn na decennia government spending wanbeleid. Het systeem bijt in zijn eigen staart. We moeten dat stand-still principe zo snel mogelijk afschaffen. Heeft niets meer met welvaart te maken. Enkel behoud van priviliges voor wie eeuwig op de kap van de staat wil leven.

Reforming bureaucracy is always a nightmare, only way is to cut too deep and rebuild like what Elon did at twitter and DOGE. Spending money is by far the easiest part of running any organization.

@SebaAsprella @bosmeny There’s ITAR downside when you setup an American company fyi. Your company needs to be controlled by an American (board control)

If you want to help make America safer, I want to meet to you.

@PietroVentani @TheMichaelEvery This is not that likely tbh, trade authority is centralized in the EU, sanchez is going to be voted out next election and the EU has a lot more leverage over eurozone countries. Plus after the success of the Brexit, leaving the EU is politically toxic.

@TheMichaelEvery Sanchez trip to Beijing is illuminating and so is Meloni's change of message

Who knows, but if I wanted an indicator the U.S. & EU will end up on the same side —apart from cooperation on critical minerals & the French now saying they want 30% tariffs on China!— it would be the FT & The Economist arguing the West will divorce. Then Jim Cramer.