Let me know what you think of this additional (weekly) format! And if you enjoy it, feel free to support Into Europe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/IntoEurope I will continue with more deep dives as well - the next of which should be live somewhere next week! Cheers, Hugo
It's a good format. This way we hear more about Europe in less time. And since people are in a real hurry these days, making videos in a more compact form is not bad, it is also faster to make so we get to enjoy more news. :)
The thing about the Battery industry is, Europe is to late for a free market approach, you would need a state supported, whatever it takes approach. By that I mean, you just pump as much money in it, as you need, until it supplys the european market. The strategy will never make money but you have the technology at home. The question is, if the EU really wants to spend so much money :D
Well said, I completely agree. Personally I don’t think it is worth it. As long as we can still get batteries on a smaller scale from South Korea or in the future the US.
To see what's happening otherwise just look at the details. Northvolt cut 400 jobs in R&D. I don't see how this could possibly turn out well in the future for the company or the EU. I really hate these governmental half measures. The "Let's throw a lot of money into something and then immediatley leave it alone and force it to be competitive until it fails" approach is sucha waste. Would it really hurt to invest into it for 5 or 10 more years until it can actually be competitive? At least fund the R&D department fully...
@@thecashier930 I mean, that is the point. I don't see the EU at the point, that is willing to bring any industry to life. About the R&D, I think, you will have that at the universities, even if the privat industry dies. In solar, AI and also battery research, european Universities are still up to date. What it takes is a strategy, that is more than a one time payment, and harnest the knowledge out of the Universities into the private market.
@@Sjoerd-gk3wr It is up to everyone, to decide, if these countries are reliable partners or not. The US with Trump as president is not a reliable country. SK could be the Taiwan problem all over. I don't disagree with you, just pointing out, what someone could argue about it.
@@mscho3273 Absolutley. And it honestly needs to happen at a European level. Northolt wants to get a bailout from the Swedish Government, but imo if that's anyones job, it's the EU, because the strategic location is relevant for all of us.
If we are unable to cut down pensions, it means we live in a gerontocracy. Maybe it's time to stop old people from accruing debt on the shoulders of the youth.
I`m Bulgarian. Pensions here are the biggest drain on the economy and super low at the same time. There are just too many old people and not enough young people. Everybody knows the problem exists but nobody wants to fix it. Politicians are also racing to raise wages to win votes. If this keeps up the system will go bankrupt in 10-15 years.
Really like your videos with the info they add. Either short or long they'bve been grat. Like the idea of being able to cover some stories with this format, but really enjoy the longer format as well.
I love the "Joe Blogs" format of quick and informative style content, with the more visual content being saved for bigger stories. Thank you for what you do.
Investing in fundamental tech like batteries is not just about providing supply to the world, but rather about sovereignty and being sure you're able to provide for yourself in case the shipping is not there (like when your chance of getting more gas energy literally gets blown up...). The EU will have to live with not having a lot of things if it wants to insist on not investing in things that won't have a standard "free market" type of financial return in
Nice video, good approach to the news. The information doesn’t seem opinionated, and the title isn’t clickbaity. Please don’t follow the path of TLDR news
Amazing format, you just did better european news than the entire collective of Swedish journalists who are absolutely useless at european news. Keep it up!
Because France is much bigger than Estonia. It can't just dismantle its bureaucracy and rebuild it from scratch, which is pretty much what Estonia did after the USSR fell apart.
Smaller countries are relatively easier to change, e.g. Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia. The same change in bigger countries, such as France, Italy or Spain, is guaranteed to take much, much longer. Even if they wanted to do that, I reckon it'd take an unprecedented amount of deep planning.
Canada also jumped into the bandwagon and poured money into Northvolt, hoping it would create jobs here. Now the plans for the new plant are indefinitely paused so the billions of dollars are not refunded but still set aside for the "startup"
This is a good idea of a format, but it would be better to put in it some subjects that are also more hopeful (it can be said about the whole channel). A lot of subjects and especially how you present them is either that Europe missed a step or lack innovation/money. It can be demoralizing at times.
Why they don't see as an option to lower the price of the Nortvolt batteries to be more competitive? at least you get some money back for the investors and change strategy
Funny that “human rights” are a concern when it comes to deportation of illegals, but it is not a concern when we are talking about the EU’s own citizens, that suffer from worsening conditions long term because of the illegals.
France is doomed, the main problem is the state pension system which is completely unequal and in deficit but they can't change it since retired ppl are the ppl who vote the most and literally decide who's going to be the next president...
I think one should take the official EV battery cell production figures out of China with a truckload of salt. If supply out striped demand like that why is Chinese EV production not increasing and with cheaper EVs? Even BYD has stagnated since 2023…
2:54 If you think EU shouldn't secure its critical supply chain, I have Pagers to sell you... If you don't have a secure supply chain, the hostile owner of the "pagers" can use that at any moment. I see that the Russian gas dependency does not teach people like him a single thing...
There are different ways to go about this, one could be the Hungarian strategy of having foreign battery manufacturers setting up shop in Europe - the production is then in Europe, while benefitting from foreign know-how. This was outlined in the Draghi report as one type of industrial approaches. Cheers, Hugo
It's a good format. This way we hear more about Europe in less time. And since people are in a real hurry these days, making videos in a more compact form is not bad, it is also faster to make so we get to enjoy more news. :)
Pension have been such a large mistake for Europe. Now it's clear as day that the American approach of having individual saving for retirement where the money is invested in the market is so much more better and stable long term. Not to mention can handle declining population and stagnation in productivity to a certain degree. Also approach of eldery clearly shows us that there is little to no social solidarity and a whole lot of greed effectively undermining core of welfare state.
The Global Pension Index 2024 actually shows that the US's pension system is not that far off from Italy's, which is the 4th oldest country in the world, not to mention the oldest in Europe. So I'm not sure that's sustainable either. To put it into perspective, Italy's score is 55.4/100, whereas the US stands at 60.4/100. The best system seems to be the Dutch one (84.4/100).
Loooove love this format, the only thing i would add would be the title of it on the video like "The EU's Deportation Plan & More | Last Week in Europe"
Northvolt is doing badly mainly because the current government (consisting of the moderate party, kristdemokraterna, liberalerna supported by sverigedemokraterna) do not care or want to understand the rewnable transition, the company was being subsidized due to it being a key company to the rewnable transition by the previous (and also incopetent government, socialdemokraterna och miljöpartiet supported by the centerpartiet) and it being a new strategic company. The subsidies have now been all but terminated by the government and are justifying it (especially by the sverigedemokraterna and there minister responsible for this shit show) by saying it is now "up to them and the market" or something along those lines. You have no idea how hopping mad i am at them, they can't even agree on wind turbines and if they should be built out like it was planned to be by the previous government, nor how much they should invest, IF they want to invest, it's a mess...and i am both mad and laughing at them. Oh and don't get me started on the planned nuclear reactors, what's that government? You plan on building 2-3 new reactors only at the moment and it will be online only until the 2030-40 while not giving any focus in the meanwhile to rewnable energy? Fantastic idea! Let me just write it down to on my notepad named stupid ideas from cocaine addicts, because that's the only reason someone would say such thing. Here is the cocaine bathroom scandal as source in case you think im bluffing: Kokain hittat i riksdagen / Aftonbladet th-cam.com/video/6h87eLFQk-E/w-d-xo.html Partiledarna om knarkavslöjandet: ”Aftonbladet skulle kontrollera sina toaletter” / Aftonbladet th-cam.com/video/5oAEh02MbI4/w-d-xo.html Här hittas kokain hos fyra av riksdagspartierna / Aftonbladet th-cam.com/video/oG1szJDGTpY/w-d-xo.html
The current government is the best Sweden has had the last 30-40 years. I am not completely against subsidies but pouring an enormous amount of tax money on a mismanaged company is insane. Also,... too many wind power parks everywhere is extremely ugly. That said... I hope Northvolt and other green transition projects succeed.
@@nicke0b if they are the best by your standards then this country and it's people are a joke (no offense). And secondly, "mismanaged"? It's only "mismanaged" at the moment is because the company got it's main investor (the state) pull it's hands away faster than melania trump, and don't think for a second that I haven't heard of that classical nimby argument and it's cousins like "its ugly, it destroys the look and feel of the community" and so on and another thing, for a new company or tech to begin becoming mainstream it needs investment especially if it is more expensive than what the private market can invest in or it has no interest for the private investor, so no,subsidies ARE needed and the current government can go to hell when it comes to it's incopetency to climate issues.
Oh and let's not forget the thousands that have been put out of a job, maybe for a short while or maybe forever because of this countries current job market,but what is clear is that this current government does not care about it's people and the decision it makes while sometimes in the right direction are also a lot of the time a miss...only if we are talking about crime policy
@@attilaabonyi8879 If you look at history there are so many examples of governments trying to rescue and subsidies industries for many years to help the people.... ending with just enormous losses. I am not completely against it... but we have historical reasons to be very skeptical about it.
Very nice idea if these videos. I love your deeper information more, but I can see why you want to step up your professionalism like TL;DR News. Their studio is nice but I find their content more surface level than yours. Just don't get lost in the sauce my guy
Weekly news? Hell yeah Also, a note. The decimal dot in the post-it format looks a lot like a very common alternative multiplication symbol due to being so high up. Might lead to confusion.
Let me know what you think of this additional (weekly) format! And if you enjoy it, feel free to support Into Europe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/IntoEurope
I will continue with more deep dives as well - the next of which should be live somewhere next week!
Cheers,
Hugo
I really like it, love news coverage from Europe
It's a good format. This way we hear more about Europe in less time. And since people are in a real hurry these days, making videos in a more compact form is not bad, it is also faster to make so we get to enjoy more news. :)
Amazing format!
The most cliche format smh
The thing about the Battery industry is, Europe is to late for a free market approach, you would need a state supported, whatever it takes approach. By that I mean, you just pump as much money in it, as you need, until it supplys the european market. The strategy will never make money but you have the technology at home. The question is, if the EU really wants to spend so much money :D
Well said, I completely agree. Personally I don’t think it is worth it. As long as we can still get batteries on a smaller scale from South Korea or in the future the US.
To see what's happening otherwise just look at the details. Northvolt cut 400 jobs in R&D. I don't see how this could possibly turn out well in the future for the company or the EU.
I really hate these governmental half measures. The "Let's throw a lot of money into something and then immediatley leave it alone and force it to be competitive until it fails" approach is sucha waste. Would it really hurt to invest into it for 5 or 10 more years until it can actually be competitive? At least fund the R&D department fully...
@@thecashier930 I mean, that is the point. I don't see the EU at the point, that is willing to bring any industry to life. About the R&D, I think, you will have that at the universities, even if the privat industry dies. In solar, AI and also battery research, european Universities are still up to date. What it takes is a strategy, that is more than a one time payment, and harnest the knowledge out of the Universities into the private market.
@@Sjoerd-gk3wr It is up to everyone, to decide, if these countries are reliable partners or not. The US with Trump as president is not a reliable country. SK could be the Taiwan problem all over. I don't disagree with you, just pointing out, what someone could argue about it.
@@mscho3273 Absolutley. And it honestly needs to happen at a European level. Northolt wants to get a bailout from the Swedish Government, but imo if that's anyones job, it's the EU, because the strategic location is relevant for all of us.
Love it! Please keep on doing this format!
If we are unable to cut down pensions, it means we live in a gerontocracy. Maybe it's time to stop old people from accruing debt on the shoulders of the youth.
That describes literally evey pension-system on earth currently. It's an intergenerational ponzi-scheeme.
I really like this format. It could be expanded further to cover more national news of different countries that may possibly impact the EU
That's the goal!
Content is much appreciated
I`m Bulgarian. Pensions here are the biggest drain on the economy and super low at the same time. There are just too many old people and not enough young people. Everybody knows the problem exists but nobody wants to fix it. Politicians are also racing to raise wages to win votes. If this keeps up the system will go bankrupt in 10-15 years.
Do you do Bulgarian split squats?
It is great to have this format of news from Europe, including of some overlooked news.
Love the format
Really like your videos with the info they add. Either short or long they'bve been grat. Like the idea of being able to cover some stories with this format, but really enjoy the longer format as well.
Great format. Go on!
Love the format
Love it. Only feedback is that an appropriate title for these videos would make it better to distinguish them from your normal videos.
Yes, am still working a little bit on the branding
@@IntoEurope The "& more" works, so long as it is consistent in these types of videos. Love the new format btw
I love the "Joe Blogs" format of quick and informative style content, with the more visual content being saved for bigger stories. Thank you for what you do.
More weekly news pls
Really like the format. I hope the series continues
Love this new format! Please keep it up! ❤
This format is nice!
This is a good format! Finally more EU focused timely content. Thank you!
Good format.
That format is fucking awesome, please keep it up
Great format
Cool formar. Keep it up!
Investing in fundamental tech like batteries is not just about providing supply to the world, but rather about sovereignty and being sure you're able to provide for yourself in case the shipping is not there (like when your chance of getting more gas energy literally gets blown up...). The EU will have to live with not having a lot of things if it wants to insist on not investing in things that won't have a standard "free market" type of financial return in
Excellent video format! Something similar to TLDR EU, but hopefully covering a larger variety of issues.
problem with TLDR is that it is too liberal leaning, while this channel is not luckily.
love this!
Great format i approv it
4:10 bro just added a brand new province to the Netherlands.
Youre on the right path! Greetings from a proud Patreon
Much appreciated!
Nice video, good approach to the news. The information doesn’t seem opinionated, and the title isn’t clickbaity.
Please don’t follow the path of TLDR news
Amazing format, you just did better european news than the entire collective of Swedish journalists who are absolutely useless at european news. Keep it up!
Thank you!
You may move the speaker at same size to 1/3 of the screen and the other two-thirds could be your slides
France probably has the most potential in all of Europe but they are ashamed to reach any of it.
I don't understand why France doesn't follow Estonia's e-Governance approach to cut costs.
That would require France to change, which results in strikes by a population that wants things to be different but refuses to accept changes.
Because France is much bigger than Estonia. It can't just dismantle its bureaucracy and rebuild it from scratch, which is pretty much what Estonia did after the USSR fell apart.
Smaller countries are relatively easier to change, e.g. Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia.
The same change in bigger countries, such as France, Italy or Spain, is guaranteed to take much, much longer.
Even if they wanted to do that, I reckon it'd take an unprecedented amount of deep planning.
I'm a fan of it.
Germany sent back two.migrants to Afghanistan and I don't hear anyone voicing human rights concern
Short and to the point, i like this format.
I like the format.
Canada also jumped into the bandwagon and poured money into Northvolt, hoping it would create jobs here. Now the plans for the new plant are indefinitely paused so the billions of dollars are not refunded but still set aside for the "startup"
There's interest!! Thanks for the video :D especially since TLDR is showing lots of bias.
Great episode, more of this please!
Very nice format, keep it up
Nice format!
So Good
This is a good idea of a format, but it would be better to put in it some subjects that are also more hopeful (it can be said about the whole channel).
A lot of subjects and especially how you present them is either that Europe missed a step or lack innovation/money. It can be demoralizing at times.
Hard times right now
Most of Into Europe's content is quite negative. It does gives me disinformation vibes, though it's probably just what generates clicks.
It's always good to know what's currently happening and if this format doesn't compromise on the deep dives it's a good addition.
It shouldn't!
Why they don't see as an option to lower the price of the Nortvolt batteries to be more competitive? at least you get some money back for the investors and change strategy
It sounds like it is A and B who agree on what C must pay to D. You could also call it democracy's interference with individual freedom.
how does an illegal immigrant even get ownership of a port?????? they don't even own any boats!
It's great format
Great video man, loved the format
Funny that “human rights” are a concern when it comes to deportation of illegals, but it is not a concern when we are talking about the EU’s own citizens, that suffer from worsening conditions long term because of the illegals.
Great series idea.
10/10 great format
We are screwed...
France is doomed, the main problem is the state pension system which is completely unequal and in deficit but they can't change it since retired ppl are the ppl who vote the most and literally decide who's going to be the next president...
Like the format!!
Great video, keep up the good work. 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈
Backed away from Russian gas, forced into Chinese batteries. Never ending idiocracy in the EU
🤣🤣🤣
Becoming reliant on Russian gas without a feasible backup plan in place like other EU nations was the real blunder.
very nice, keep it up!
I like the format. Keep up the good work.
LG is a South Korean company
He did say China *and* Korea.
Is it flawed to claim that prioritization is a politician's last resort and often only becomes a reality in the case of major, significant crises?
Great vid
❤
I love your new weekly news! Can't wait to watch every week!
It would be nice to have your slides at least stay 3 seconds . Tnx
Nice Video , keep it up !
I think one should take the official EV battery cell production figures out of China with a truckload of salt. If supply out striped demand like that why is Chinese EV production not increasing and with cheaper EVs? Even BYD has stagnated since 2023…
Love it
Love the new format
2:54 If you think EU shouldn't secure its critical supply chain, I have Pagers to sell you... If you don't have a secure supply chain, the hostile owner of the "pagers" can use that at any moment. I see that the Russian gas dependency does not teach people like him a single thing...
There are different ways to go about this, one could be the Hungarian strategy of having foreign battery manufacturers setting up shop in Europe - the production is then in Europe, while benefitting from foreign know-how. This was outlined in the Draghi report as one type of industrial approaches.
Cheers,
Hugo
Cool format
Too many people not working that could.
Keep going!
This new format is great, Ill be waiting for the next one.
LG is South Korean, not Chinese, otherwise great video
I'll continue watching this format if the topics remain interesting :). With this you'll have me watching next episode!
It's a good format. This way we hear more about Europe in less time. And since people are in a real hurry these days, making videos in a more compact form is not bad, it is also faster to make so we get to enjoy more news. :)
Great format, I really enjoy this general overview it gives on the important events that take place in europe. Keep it up please!
Where did you get the capacity of italy’s centers in albania? I was only aware of a total capacity of 1404
People processed per year =/= capacity
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This is great, I wish it was longer, eg. You could go into the deficit problems of those countries, and why are they in that situation.
Curious that there is more talk about the format and not the content.
Comment for the algorithm
Pension have been such a large mistake for Europe. Now it's clear as day that the American approach of having individual saving for retirement where the money is invested in the market is so much more better and stable long term. Not to mention can handle declining population and stagnation in productivity to a certain degree.
Also approach of eldery clearly shows us that there is little to no social solidarity and a whole lot of greed effectively undermining core of welfare state.
The Global Pension Index 2024 actually shows that the US's pension system is not that far off from Italy's, which is the 4th oldest country in the world, not to mention the oldest in Europe. So I'm not sure that's sustainable either.
To put it into perspective, Italy's score is 55.4/100, whereas the US stands at 60.4/100. The best system seems to be the Dutch one (84.4/100).
In the deportation centers must be organized production of something. So the migrants will have a chance to pay the damage which they inflict.
Good job!
Loooove love this format, the only thing i would add would be the title of it on the video like "The EU's Deportation Plan & More | Last Week in Europe"
They should just cut pay for pensioners and increase the age
France has not only a low retirement age but also pays their pensioners a lot
What a joke
France has reached us italians !!!
Unacepteble !!!!
Come guys, you know what to do !! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
I have never thought that might be so disgusted by mentioning human rights organizations...
Northvolt is doing badly mainly because the current government (consisting of the moderate party, kristdemokraterna, liberalerna supported by sverigedemokraterna) do not care or want to understand the rewnable transition, the company was being subsidized due to it being a key company to the rewnable transition by the previous (and also incopetent government, socialdemokraterna och miljöpartiet supported by the centerpartiet) and it being a new strategic company. The subsidies have now been all but terminated by the government and are justifying it (especially by the sverigedemokraterna and there minister responsible for this shit show) by saying it is now "up to them and the market" or something along those lines.
You have no idea how hopping mad i am at them, they can't even agree on wind turbines and if they should be built out like it was planned to be by the previous government, nor how much they should invest, IF they want to invest, it's a mess...and i am both mad and laughing at them. Oh and don't get me started on the planned nuclear reactors, what's that government?
You plan on building 2-3 new reactors only at the moment and it will be online only until the 2030-40 while not giving any focus in the meanwhile to rewnable energy?
Fantastic idea!
Let me just write it down to on my notepad named stupid ideas from cocaine addicts, because that's the only reason someone would say such thing.
Here is the cocaine bathroom scandal as source in case you think im bluffing:
Kokain hittat i riksdagen / Aftonbladet
th-cam.com/video/6h87eLFQk-E/w-d-xo.html
Partiledarna om knarkavslöjandet: ”Aftonbladet skulle kontrollera sina toaletter” / Aftonbladet
th-cam.com/video/5oAEh02MbI4/w-d-xo.html
Här hittas kokain hos fyra av riksdagspartierna / Aftonbladet
th-cam.com/video/oG1szJDGTpY/w-d-xo.html
The current government is the best Sweden has had the last 30-40 years. I am not completely against subsidies but pouring an enormous amount of tax money on a mismanaged company is insane. Also,... too many wind power parks everywhere is extremely ugly. That said... I hope Northvolt and other green transition projects succeed.
@@nicke0b if they are the best by your standards then this country and it's people are a joke (no offense).
And secondly, "mismanaged"?
It's only "mismanaged" at the moment is because the company got it's main investor (the state) pull it's hands away faster than melania trump, and don't think for a second that I haven't heard of that classical nimby argument and it's cousins like "its ugly, it destroys the look and feel of the community" and so on and another thing, for a new company or tech to begin becoming mainstream it needs investment especially if it is more expensive than what the private market can invest in or it has no interest for the private investor, so no,subsidies ARE needed and the current government can go to hell when it comes to it's incopetency to climate issues.
Oh and let's not forget the thousands that have been put out of a job, maybe for a short while or maybe forever because of this countries current job market,but what is clear is that this current government does not care about it's people and the decision it makes while sometimes in the right direction are also a lot of the time a miss...only if we are talking about crime policy
@@attilaabonyi8879 If you look at history there are so many examples of governments trying to rescue and subsidies industries for many years to help the people.... ending with just enormous losses. I am not completely against it... but we have historical reasons to be very skeptical about it.
They had 30 billion private investment. The guys running are clowns. No way tax payers should back them.
First time watching, I thought the format was great and as a uk national living in France, very useful too!
Nice new format, pls do some more.
Great format to keep up with the development of the EU 👍
good
Very nice idea if these videos. I love your deeper information more, but I can see why you want to step up your professionalism like TL;DR News. Their studio is nice but I find their content more surface level than yours.
Just don't get lost in the sauce my guy
Weekly news? Hell yeah
Also, a note. The decimal dot in the post-it format looks a lot like a very common alternative multiplication symbol due to being so high up. Might lead to confusion.