Borde vi inte ha en mycket större rusning på börsen för SAAB? Fullkomligen rasar in beställningar.

I dug around a bit in the public paper trail to find out exactly bought and paid for this law to screw over everyday consumers.

The answer boils down to greedy monopolies with political connections being afraid of real competition because efficiency and a superior business model are apparently "unfair"

The corpos behind the mask.

The main driving force that pressured the European Commission to kill the de minimis threshold and forced you to pay 3 euros for a 2 euro pack of double adhesive stickers is a massive monopolistic corporate lobby group in Brussels called EuroCommerce.

They ran an aggressive, well funded lobbying campaign called the #Compliance4All. They did this because they were absolutely terrified of people buying affordable

directly from global sellers instead of paying their bloated monopoly markups.

When you look at who actually sits on the governing body for this lobby, you find Europe's biggest retail and grocery monopolies pulling the strings. According to their official websitesite, this nasty group is packed with corporate lobbyists, including:

Parent Corporate Member	Key Retail Brands & Subsidiaries	Annual Revenue
Schwarz Group	Lidl, Kaufland, PreZero	€185.6 Billion
REWE Group	BILLA, REWE, Penny, Toom Baumarkt, BIPA	€100.4 Billion
Ahold Delhaize	Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Alfa Beta, Mega Image, Maxi, Albert	€92.35 Billion
Carrefour Group	Carrefour, Carrefour Market, Express, Atacadão, Cora, Match	€91.48 Billion
Tesco PLC	Tesco, Tesco Express, One Stop	€82 Billion
Inditex	Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius	€36 Billion
H&M Group	H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, ARKET	€21 Billion
Colruyt Group	Colruyt, Okay, Spar	€11.19 Billion

They successfully convinced the EU to pass this law to bully us back into their stores and buy their heavily marked up crap. This is classic protectionist crony capitalism.

How We can legally fight back:

Don't let them force you back into their overpriced supermarkets and clothing stores. And share this with your friends. Use filters in the AliExpress app to buy products that are being shipped from Europe, and the Choice Category stacking mechanism thus skipping or reducing the fees.

Get together with some friends and buy stuff you like together preferably via the Choice option, making sure it is in the same category, then have one of you purchase it and distribute it to the others. You can even use cheap courier services that might cost less than the per item handling fee if you live far apart.

since: Boycott the likes of Schwartz and Zara and buy from local stores. Buy from local stores. Going to small so called "Mom-and-pop" stores for necessities keeps the money in your local community and puts it in your neighbors pockets, not those of some greedy corporation that does everything it can to skip taxes and stifle real competition.

Demand that these monopolies be hit with extra taxes, since many of them like Schwarz already have bad reputations for unfair competition and many national level politicians in the EU want to hit THEM with extra taxes you can support whoever wants to put such a law in place.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, so make sure you spread this message far and wide!

Hi David! Do you think you could cover this? Lots of protest right now in Albania due to this fishy investment from the trump mafia family.

The protests are as far as ive read in https://www.reddit.com/r/albania/ not only due to kushner, there is more to it.

Most western media bring up the kushner-thing though :

https://www.reuters.com/world/albanians-protest-over-kushner-linked-luxury-resort-pristine-coastline-2026-06-03/

Flagged by OCCRP :

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/albania-freezes-assets-in-kushner-resort-probe

This is starting to get confusing.

What system should I get, I will buy it on the Spanish amazon (amazon.es) but there are SO many variants - mostly generic systems with their own logos maybe?

What do you recommend? Should I go for systems that allow for standard filters to be used? (think they are the 10-inch ones) But how do I know that it uses that?