ENSHITTIFICATION.....THE ANSWER,EUROSTACK.....EUROPE'S OWN

In Europe, discussions are coalescing around an ambitious idea called EuroStack, an EU-led “digital supply chain” that would give Europe technological sovereignty independent from the US and other countries.

The idea gathered steam a couple of months before Trump’s reelection, when a group of business leaders, European politicians, and technologists—including Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s former minister of digital affairs—met at the European Parliament to discuss “European Digital Independence.” According to Cristina Caffarra, an economist who helped organize the meeting, the takeaway was stark: “US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”

The feeling of urgency has only grown since Trump retook office. The German and French governments have embraced EuroStack, while major EU aircraft manufacturers and military suppliers like Airbus and Dassault have signed on to a public letter advocating its approach to “sovereign digital infrastructure.” In all the European capitals, the Danish government adviser says, teams of people are calculating what elements should be folded into the effort and what it would cost.

And EuroStack is just one part of the response to enshittification. The European Union is also putting together a joint defense fund to help EU countries buy weapons—but not from the US. The EU’s executive agency, the European Commission, is patching together a network of satellites that could eventually provide Ukraine and Europe with their own home-baked alternative to Starlink. Christine Lagarde, the head of the European Central Bank, has also started talking pointedly about how Europe needs its own infrastructure for payments, credit, and debit, “just in case.”

source WIRED MAGAZINE.......MASSIVE UNDERTAKING, BUT MONUMENTAL IN IT'S NEED.

Just read a great article about how Al Gore destroyed the European union economy with his ecological death rants.

Germany invested trillions in solar panels when they are one of the cloudiest nations in the world. They shut down their nuclear power plants and are now forced to buy natural gas from Putin's Russia.

Trust Europe to screw this up too. Hard enough keeping 50 states in line, even tougher when you have independent nations.

250 million per vehicle! Looks like some idiot American politicians fell for Gore's screeching. At least the senile ones named Joe Biden.

The European's have been stacking piles of steaming Shittification and Trump had nothing to do about it.