Aja baja wrote that Sweden was closer to a new election and claimed that 406,000 people had switched sides in a month. The writer therefore believed that the right should govern Sweden and wrote that the person whom they called a hindrance should pursue their centrist vision. https://t.co/skoVE9OGRs #Sverige #politik #nyval (translated)
The author wrote that Europeans were broadly united in supporting Ukraine but could not make up for the loss of US military and intelligence support. They also cited increasingly brazen Russian sabotage and intimidation in the “grey zone”, mounting fiscal pressures and more polarised domestic politics. https://t.co/0IA8x5pIO0 #Ukraine #Europe #Russia #UA #US #RU #EU
RADIO ARC 101:“NEWSSTANDS, ‘ENDANGERED SPECIES’ LIKE CAFÉS: MONEY LOST AND HOPES FROM STANFORD” by NANDO SILVESTRI SOURCE: https://radioarc.it/edicole-razze-in-estinzione-come-i-bar-soldi-persi-e-speranze-da-stanford/ Newsstands are another repository of humanity and knowledge, in many respects similar to cafés, at least as far as the unfortunate fate that has befallen many of them is concerned. The smell of printed paper, coloured card, variegated covers, surprise packets and cellophane was an olfactory molasses that once intoxicated young and old alike and represented, at the same time, a sought-after destination for daily walks and pauses. Stopping by the newsstand meant drawing upon knowledge, entertainment, culture, imagination and creativity. All prerogatives lost on account of the shapeless and amorphous surrogates disseminated by the web. This is the principal reason for the cumulative and recurring closure of a great many Italian newsstands: in economics, one speaks of a sector in demand collapse. But it is not merely a newsstand that closes; a piece of the local and national economy closes with it. From 35,000 newsstands in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. With them goes direct turnover of over €400 million per year, but the real hole is the indirect economy that is never calculated. Each average newsstand in a small town generated distribution worth €15,000 per year in margins for local distributors, couriers, and printers. Moreover, the customer who bought the newspaper would have a coffee, buy a bus ticket, place a bet. Download the Medium App One must consider that without a newsstand, the village cinema loses its only physical promotional outlet, not to mention the losses in terms of advertising. When it closes, it is not only the newsagent who loses. The café loses, the driver loses, the printer loses. In Irpinia, over the last five years, Avellino has lost six newsstands, Ariano Irpino three, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi two. The total loss in Irpinia amounts to about 22% of outlets. All this means that many of the closures mentioned above have deprived Irpinian cafés of several dozen customers, harming workers, distributors and suppliers. These are jobs that do not make the news, but they exist. Another hard blow inflicted upon the local and national economy in the name of a false progress that almost always favours the business of fixers and the usual suspects. However, what is happening in Puglia, a few kilometres from Irpinia, opens up scenarios of renewal based precisely upon the reconversion of disused newsstands. These are prospects so unique and innovative as to have aroused interest worldwide, especially at Stanford University. This is news of enormous significance that few news programmes have disseminated, in the name of a perennial pre-emption by technologies contemptuous of common sense, tradition and art. In San Severo, 40 km from Upper Irpinia, a newsstand abandoned for six years in Via Matteo Tondi became, on 27 March 2026, the Teatro-Edicola Foyer’97: six chairs, four square metres, an idea by Francesco Gavino. The well-received 10- to 15-minute shows have piqued the curiosity of Stanford University. Its academic journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review [SSIR], has chosen the Teatro Edicola in San Severo as an international case study with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. Why is Stanford watching us? Because it has realised that those four square metres can once again generate indirect economic activity. Indeed, 60 spectators in an afternoon can become 60 coffees at the neighbouring café. With a symbolic ticket price of €5, we are talking about a cultural micro-economy. Not to mention the indirect income from tourists and journalists who arrive and frequent B&Bs and restaurants. It is the model Irpinia needs: not to leave the void, but to reconvert it virtuously. Every closed newsstand can become an information point, a micro-cinema, a service hub. Otherwise we shall continue to count only the lowered shutters, without counting the money that no longer circulates.
A review suggests that the HSE should consider funding the weight-loss drug Wegovy, although it would result in significant costs amounting to billions. #cookies #security #accessblocked
Mikel Arteta said he had been told that staff job losses at Arsenal were part of an effort to evolve and improve. He said decisions had been made to place people in suitable roles and continue investing in the club’s ambitions.
The author wrote that, despite progress, the “war on nature” had not ended, and said pollution, biodiversity loss and climate chaos affected everyone everywhere. They called for more action, speed and determination, asking whether enough was being done.
The UN secretary-general said that tackling biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change had been one of his greatest priorities, citing his children and grandchildren as reasons he believed world leaders should show leadership on nature. He urged people to act urgently.
I express deep sorrow and grief over the loss of precious lives. #JusticeForChildren #PeshawarTragedy #InfrastructureFailure
Ukraine has attacked a Russian oil refinery, definitively jeopardizing the energy ceasefire announced by Trump, while President Zelensky feels betrayed by the US and announces more attacks. #Oekraïne #RussischeOlie #Zelensky (translated)
The author wrote that good intentions alone would not be enough for nature to thrive, but said biodiversity loss could be halted and reversed and the natural foundations of human life and prosperity secured. They described the State of Biodiversity Action Report as providing the necessary evidence and roadmap.
Susanne wrote that her observation might cost her followers, but she found the FVD members of parliament to act more constructively in debates than those of DENK. She based that judgment on her long-term observation of debates and said it was separate from her views on the positions of both parties. According to her, FVD wanted to get rid of the cabinet as quickly as possible, while DENK could live with it. #MijnMening #TweedeKamer #Debat #Politiek #Observatie (translated)
The author said they were deeply saddened by the deaths of young people in a school roof collapse in Peshawar, offered condolences to the victims’ families and wished those injured a swift recovery. #Peshawar #PrayForPeshawar #Condolences #LT #PK
Molly Martens, who was convicted for the murder of Irish father Jason Corbett in 2015, has given birth to a baby boy named Thomas Carter, with ongoing support from a community-driven meal appeal as her family continues to mourn Jason's tragic loss. #MollyMartens #JasonCorbett #TrueCrime
Public sector strikes in Ireland could result in economic losses of up to €500 million due to a nationwide walkout causing widespread disruption. #CookiesEnabled #OnlineSecurity #AccessBlocked
The first foreign visit of Estonia's President Ülle Madise to Latvia resulted in a joyful meeting with Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs at the Riga Castle. #ÜlleMadise #LätiPresident #EestiVisiit (translated)
Volvo Cars is recalling 234,000 electric cars of the EX30 model worldwide, of which about 15,000 are in Sweden, due to a safety risk where the headrests may detach during a collision. #Volvo #återkallning #elbilar (translated)
Sander Sassen stated that entrepreneurs with debts to their own BV had not secretly funneled the borrowed money away, but had built it up from liquid assets that, according to him, had already been taxed. He wrote that for such loans, the same market-conform rules applied as for regular lenders and that they did not constitute free money, as repayment was mandatory. According to Sassen, the BV and the managing director-major shareholder had already paid taxes, and above the existing threshold of five hundred thousand, direct taxation in box 2 applied. Therefore, he believed that the loans did not provide an unfair advantage for entrepreneurs compared to those without their own business. Sassen warned that a reduction of the threshold to one hundred thousand retroactively would affect entrepreneurs who had already sold assets, sometimes their homes, to pay off debts after reductions in 2023 and 2024. According to him, they were often tied to long-term plans and could not repay more quickly. He stated that bankruptcies and job losses could be the consequence of this. Sassen also referred to the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors (NOB), which, according to him, anticipated a massacre among entrepreneurs who had reached their repayment threshold after the reductions in 2023 and 2024. He said that the proposal undermined existing agreements and urged politics not to further disadvantage entrepreneurs. #ondernemen #belasting #financiering (translated)
The author wrote that they had joined Renault Group at the Paris Motor Show in arguing that deaths on the roads should not be treated as inevitable. They said the knowledge and solutions to save lives were available and called for joint action. https://t.co/s2CDOHjYDD #SécuritéRoutière #Mobilité #Renault #FR
Ann Van Haute wrote that 10 billion is being sought to reduce the budget deficit, not to pay off the national debt or to structurally address the causes of the deficit. She wondered what would be solved by that and stated that it would be a waste of money and time without a fundamental reform of the state machinery. According to her, citizens pay a government to solve problems, not to finance them time and again. #begrotingstekort #staatsfinanciën #hervormingen (translated)
