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Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans switch to a 100% sovereign payment from 2026 Europe settles its accounts
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Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans switch to a 100% sovereign payment from 2026 Europe settles its accounts

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u/Dangi86 — 23 hours ago
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Ricky Gervais Explains: And I blame the beginning of its demise on social media. Because Twitter and Facebook, that’s where this ridiculous notion bred, and became stable, that it was more important to be popular than right. Everything was “like me”, “agree with me”. It falls into two tribes.

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u/smilelyzen — 1 day ago
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EU’s tech sovereignty package delayed for third time;The European Commission has delayed formal presentation of its tech sovereignty package to 3 June, per an agenda ; The latest postponement comes soon after a blunt warning by the US ambassador to the EU, speaking

euractiv.com
u/smilelyzen — 3 days ago

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said France is prepared to cooperate with Ukraine on strengthening anti-ballistic defense capabilities following a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on May 16.

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u/smilelyzen — 3 days ago
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Europe is leaving America. Just not out loud yet [ANALYSIS]. Rym Momtaz, editor of Carnegie Europe's Strategic Europe blog, calls this posture "quiet quitting", the gradual, largely undeclared decoupling of European strategic interests from American reliability, conducted behind a public facade of a

Rym Momtaz, editor of Carnegie Europe's Strategic Europe blog, calls this posture "quiet quitting", the gradual, largely undeclared decoupling of European strategic interests from American reliability, conducted behind a public facade of alliance continuity.

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u/smilelyzen — 3 days ago
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UK's share of European venture capital is at an all-time high (48%)

The UK's share of European venture capital is at an all-time high: 48% so far in 2026, compared to long-run average of 35.5%.

The driver is a run of mega-rounds, with AI doing the heavy lifting:
🧬 u/IsomorphicLabs — $2.1B Series B ☁️ u/nscale — $2B Series C 🚙 u/wayve_ai — $1.2B Series D 💡 Ineffable Intelligence — $1.1B Seed ♻️ Recursive Superintelligence — $650M Seed 🎤 u/ElevenLabs — $500M Series D

London is once again Europe's standout VC market.
📊: Dealroom

u/Bitter-Train-5961 — 3 days ago

The head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, has said the group will no longer work with 600 hundreds of cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the growing influence of the rightwing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré. The open letter, published earlier this week

The head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, has said the group will no longer work with hundreds of cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the growing influence of the rightwing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré.

The open letter, published earlier this week to coincide with the opening of the Cannes film festival, was signed by more than 600 figures, including the actor-

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u/smilelyzen — 4 days ago

Europe Is Building a 2,000 km Strike Missile With Ukraine as Its Test Ground. the cooperation between (Dutch startup) Destinus and Rheinmetall is exemplary for the European military-industrial complex. This is how it

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u/smilelyzen — 3 days ago

European Networking Group

Hey everyone,

I am a founder based in Romania. Lately, my personal focus has been heavily fixed on a major problem: Europe relies far too much on outside sources for manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Recent global events and supply chain shocks have only exacerbated this vulnerability. I firmly believe Eastern Europe and the continent as a whole has massive, untapped potential to bring production, tech independence, and manufacturing back home. I am actively looking to solve aspects of this issue, and I want more minds in the room who care about industrial resilience, tech sovereignty, or just building durable European businesses. 

I am looking to grow an invite only digital community exclusively for European based professionals, builders, and operators. 

What the group is about: I built this group entirely around collaboration within Europe. It’s a space where senior developers, growth marketers, product designers, and founders can genuinely connect, hire each other for projects, share resources, and team up to build new businesses.

Most networking groups online are a total waste of time. I designed this group specifically to cut through the bullshit. There is no self-promotion clutter, no endless spam, and no low-effort pitches, just peer-level operators helping each other execute and scale.

How to join: To maintain the quality of the group and ensure everyone brings real value to the table, I personally vet every single member.

If you want an invite, please send me a DM (or leave a comment below) with a quick intro covering:

  1. Where you are based in Europe.
  2. What you do: What is your core profession or primary expertise?
  3. What you bring to the table: What specific skills, experience, or resources do you bring to the group?

 

If it looks like a good fit for the group, I’ll drop you an invite link. Looking forward to meeting some real builders!

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u/catrocky — 3 days ago
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75% of the best European defence tech companies didn't exist 6 years ago; The 60+ Companies Shaping Europe’s Security: Defence Database Defence tech is the fastest growing tech sector in Europe, growing over 150% YoY in 2025. Here's what came out of it. European Defence Tech Database

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u/smilelyzen — 6 days ago

German intelligence offices snub US-owned Palantir software Germany's domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France, instead of US-based Palantir. Civil society has welcomed the move, but says more must be done.

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u/smilelyzen — 6 days ago