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Flemish people can choose which traffic tax they pay, as the Flemish government reforms the car tax from January 1 based on the weight and CO₂ emissions of vehicles, in compensation for the mandatory road vignette of 100 euros which will come into effect on May 1, 2027. #taxeautomobile #Flandre #émissionsdeCO2 (translated)

Simon Betschinger referred to a WELT report stating that Volkswagen had plummeted deeply into the red in the third quarter, recording a group result after taxes of minus 5.82 billion euros from July to September. He attributed 70 percent of the responsibility for the decline of the German industry to politics and 30 percent to management, asking how others would weigh this distribution. #Volkswagen #DeutscheIndustrie #Wirtschaft (translated)

Marieke Keijser, former lightweight rower, talks in an interview about her struggle with weight pressure and eating disorders, but how as a world champion in the quadruple scull without weight requirements, she can now enjoy her body and the sport more. #lichteroeiers #wereldkampioen #eetstoornissen (translated)

This opinion states that it is unjust that only people with overweight qualify for reimbursed lifestyle guidance, thereby excluding chronically ill individuals with a healthy weight, such as MS patients, from necessary healthcare. #Leefstijlbegeleiding #ChronischeZiekten #GezondGewicht (translated)

The author announced that his newsletter deals with Denmark's attacks on Spain regarding the planned legalization of 500,000 migrants, which would lead to a conflict within the EU. Additionally, Meloni has demanded more weight for the nation-states. Allegations of EU funds and manipulated contracts have reached the European Public Prosecutor's Office. https://t.co/wUJrfIjTpC #EU #Migration #Nationalstaaten #DK #ES #EU (translated)

Kolja Barghoorn wrote that Friedrich Merz and the CDU do not understand the situation. Klingbeil and others would expose Merz according to his portrayal. According to Barghoorn, hardly anyone takes him seriously anymore, and his words carry no weight. He also described Merz as powerless and surrounded. https://t.co/ZsBuMea1At #CDU #Politik #Deutschland (translated)

Tadek Solarz wrote that the Volkskrant had reported the day before that Greta Thunberg had joined the French student protests and that the NOS had emphasized that the majority of the protests were peaceful. On X, he had seen footage of a woman trying to defend her store against looters and of a shopkeeper who was assaulted and kicked in the back. According to Solarz, those images could symbolize a distressed France and broader unrest. He stated that the tone and image choices of the Volkskrant and the NOS gave violence a different place in the story than the images he saw on X, which focused on victims. The criticism that X algorithms amplify certain messages and thus distort the perception of reality, he believed, also applied to the selection made by newsrooms. Solarz wrote that the woman and her looted store could have been front-page news and that her fear could have become the face of the protests. #journalistiek #mediatheorie #protesten (translated)

Michel Maus stated that the road vignette was indeed a new tax, despite the message that, according to him, was on a N-VA debate note and which Minister Annick De Ridder had repeated. He wrote that the combination of the vignette and the reformed traffic tax would increase car taxation for many Flemish people. According to Maus, electric vehicles before 2026, for which no traffic tax is currently paid, would receive an additional charge with the road vignette. He also pointed out that the reformed traffic tax would take the weight of vehicles into account. Electric cars weigh on average 300 to 500 kilograms more than their fossil counterparts, meaning that the higher tax would not only affect Bentley and Cadillac drivers, as De Ridder had claimed according to Maus. Maus wrote that generating more revenue from car taxation was a political choice and called for that choice to be recognized. He argued that it was not credible to continue insisting that the measure had no tax consequences for the Flemish. In conclusion, he used a coarse insult to emphasize that people were not stupid even in the parking lot. https://t.co/J7ihP4SZj4 #Wegenvignet #Belastingen #Autofiscaliteit (translated)

The General Conference on Weights and Measures has decided to abolish the leap second and instead allow a future deviation of up to one hour between astronomical time and world time before adjustments will be necessary in the year 3000. #Schaltsekunde #Weltzeit #Erdrotation (translated)

The General Conference on Weights and Measures has decided to abolish the leap second in order to avoid disruptions in sensitive IT systems, with a continuous Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) being implemented starting May 20, 2027. #Schaltsekunde #Zeitmessung #Technologie (translated)