Opportunism indeed. Maybe he’s thinking France needs any potential business allies in the future now that the US might be gone out of the picture, although the reconstruction of Haiti and building a consumption-happy middle-class there would take long time… If that’s the case, it might be bound to remain a pale attempt compared to China showering investments into African and Asian infrastructure.

Sorry, it was actually this: https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/reframetech-algorithmen-fuers-gemeinwohl/project-news/eurostack-a-european-alternative-for-digital-sovereignty

soon. But once the world runs out of oil, the climate is decimated, and population comes crashing down because of restrictive immigration laws, there will be a sharp curve to the left and pro-EU that could lead to more interest in federation.

Or

This. Also, throw in the mix a backlash against nationalists abusing the cultural power void that might appear if both the US and the UK are collapsing - including the media industries -, the soft power of English declines, and instead of mass adoption of Mandarin in the stead of English we might try again Esperanto (which might not be the perfect universal language, but it could be perfect for Europeans).

Explain please? I’m uncertain about the heart of where you’re coming from

Globalism is such a weasel word. Esperanto-speaking cosmopolitans and tax-dodging capitalists are usually not the same. Then again, the far-right demonized even Esperanto back in the past century and might do it again if people took it seriously.

Which one of these would you recommend then? https://blog.acer.com/en/discussion/1838/10-best-non-chromium-browsers-for-windows

Check out rule #4. The server is based in Germany.

Why not endorse Firefox forks instead?

Without Spotify, many Europeans will go back to piracy.

Their catalogue isn’t visible even if you are in a supported country? Ouch. I hate how Qobuz keeps coming up in these threads, but they still don’t serve even Eastern Europe, let alone Global South countries - I don’t want to listen just to classical and jazz.

InfinityFree are based in the Netherlands, though at one point at least they were using US servers. It seems like the best solution for free hosting by far.

Update: Since I’ve opened the thread, I’ve also found out Mailo and other providers do not even allow forwarding on their free tier! Just when I was about to throw in the towel, I discover in a Reddit thread someone mentioning a site called murena.io - turns out they do have free forwarding and a more than decent free tier - apparently, they’re tied to Nextcloud, which explains all the features besides the e-mail… Done a few verification emails, now let’s see if there’s no problem moving forward, what does puzzle me is that, upon signing up, the terms of use were pretty vague - it’s not clear whether they allow multiple mailboxes for one person - and then it seems to be inaccessible once you are signed in. Guess I’ll wait for a bit before opening multiple accounts and switching all my stuff, but so far murena.io looks promising!

We can’t switch provider or even supplied speed as the addresses would be gone and all we find are offers with aliases. So I am stuck there.

Thank you, I had decided for now to sign up to Mailo, who allow multiple aliases and accounts, however they have one maddening policy: when making free account, they said you’re not allowed for an “initial period” (they don’t mention for how long, I wonder if it is 30 days!) to receive verification e-mails from third party services, and that they can terminate account at any time if they think it was made solely for verification e-mail - again, a dread I didn’t have to fear back on Gmail.

I wanted to sign up to mail.de, but I got blocked with the message: “Since the spam rate from the network you are using is above average, your access to our pages has been blocked” - I’m using a mobile phone IP, this problem only ever happened to me once when logging into Wikipedia, but nowhere else.

They don’t allow multiple accounts.

Not supported in my EU country (Romania)! I am so not going to use a VPN just to access my email, it’s ridiculous.

The idea that consumer boycott is going to impede that unfolding political apocalypse of a regime is wishful thinking. However, even if somehow the US might return any soon to half-normal (any reasonable person should doubt it at this point), that half-normal should imply severe punishments for the complicity of big American corporations with DT’s regime, such as breaking these corporations apart. That alone should tell you EU can’t depend anymore on US big tech anymore.