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France at the verge of civil war but how? The far-right National Rally (RN) is still way ahead in the polls, and now there is a left-wing alliance – whose main component is the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) – that is poised to come second. The likeliest outcomes are either an outright RN majority – and so a far-right government – or a hung parliament that spells paralysis. Either way, says Baverez, the risks are threefold: first, a crisis of France’s sovereign debt, as the markets defy the French government much as they did the UK’s erstwhile Prime Minister Liz Truss. Second, violence on the street. And third, institutional collapse. “Our Fifth Republic was designed to get us through crises. But we are in a very unstable situation. The citizens are lost because the president himself is lost, so we may have a brutal break-up of the institutions.” https://lnkd.in/dF94gD6P

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Growth and marketing tools have always been a trend. But today it gets enormous because it is harder to grow than ever: - More and more people make startups. - Google Ads are overpriced. - Spammers everywhere. People are tired. - SEO is dying, comments are dying (ty AI). - Content production was never easier (ty AI). So what? Help others grow, and make money How? Make a SaaS. Examples: John Rush, creator of ~20 projects. Each of them helps others grow, I working on a video generator that helps SaaS grow, Senja helps to sell by gathering testimonials. Or make a no-code product for that. Examples: https://x.com/callmehouck sells access to a private chat where people boost each other on 𝕏, https://lnkd.in/gQ3TZjPw sells a list of 1000 handpicked tech tiktokers.

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This flowchart about the #EU Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP) was generated by a few simple prompts in #ChatGPT. It only took 3 minutes. How? (You can also do any process chart that is already documented, be it corporate, regulatory, or other.) 1. Prompt: "Create a step by step description of [the European Union's ordinary legislative procedure], paying attention to all details." 2. Prompt: "Create a flowchart from this, placing related steps together." 3. Prompt: "Create from these steps a mermaid code." 4. Click on "Copy code" in the black box. 5. Open in a new tab the site draw.io 6. Click "Decide later", then Look for the "+" sign on screen 7. Click "Advanced", choose "Mermaid", select all what's there, then paste the code you had copied from ChatGPT 8. BINGO! — UPDATE: as Pierpaolo Settembri pointed out, the end result is not very accurate - the lesson learned is that I relied on the publicly available information instead of providing a specific source, ie the Treaty or our eucourse.eu e-learning course script, which has the entire process properly laid out. I will rerun the experiment with a better data set 🙌 (Interested in learning more about this or training your team? Stay tuned or get in touch ✌️#EUGPT , cc Jacques, Alan, Influence Builders Academy)

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Where is the E.U campaign? Luxembourg is supposed to be one of the most "pro-Europe" country. So why is no-one talking about June 9th elections. A quick test: How many of the 7 political groups in the European Parliament can you name? EPP? S&D? ID? A year ago, I started posting about politics as a way to indicate that weeks before our communal elections - and months before the General elections - no-one was campaigning, which is very dangerous for our democracy, and for the future of Luxembourg. Why is it important? - Mandate If you get elected without sharing what you stand for, you are powerless on day 1. - Public debates We all understand that extreme parties will most likely progress at E.U level on June 9th. This campaign is a unique opportunities to share critical convictions and solutions, through interviews and public debates. This is a war you fight one vote at a time. - Choosing a candidate And it is a necessary process to help voters CHOOSE their candidates based on competence rather than selfies. Why is Luxembourg so politically passive? There are 3 reasons for that: - We are blessed with a weak far right, which turns elections into a soft distribution of cards between a limited amount of parties. - A tradition of courteous exchanges give the false impression to voters that "everything is ok". - 30 years of massive growth (of the Funds industry 🤗) have made a vast proportion of the population complacent, despite the huge drop in competitiveness, the unsustainable state of our economy today and the dangerous international context. Long story short: Last year, I was challenging Luc Frieden to lead the charge, as he was the one who had everything to lose. This year, I am logically challenging Marc Angel - whose LSAP went from the Government to the opposition last year - to kick-off the debates across all platforms. And then we have the Press: only in Luxembourg do newspapers and digital outlets receive so much money - related to the distribution of each player - to inform the population. (Source: Government: https://lnkd.in/es-BZJEN) Job done? I just looked at RTL, Tageblatt, Wort, Land, Paperjam... Good luck informing yourself about E.U elections there. This is how - everywhere in the world- people end up informing themselves on social networks. 😬 If you insist, let's make it happen.

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"Let your self be monitored" saga continues. Headed by #Belgium's Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden, European Union is in the process of endorsing the #ChatControl regulation as early as June. 𝗜𝗳 𝗮 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗖𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 ��𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗯𝘆 ‘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲’ 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. Millions of private chats and private photos of citizens are to be searched using unreliable technology and then leaked without oversight or knowledge of the affected chat users. This basically gives the governments blank slate to view any image or video shared over Slack, Microsoft Teams, Rakuten Viber, WhatsApp, and even fully encrypted services such as #Signal. It's #ClientSideScanning all over again. Even though the claim is that #UploadModeration scheme is different, it is apparent that experts in the field have not been consulted nor heard. There's simply no #technology in the world today which would automatically, with 100% reliability detect illegal content. And there never will. And even if it were, doesn't uploading 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 to the cloud breaks the basic expectation of privacy? To give a blunt comparison: this is the same as if you were sending a letter, but before you can mail it, you had to show the post office worker all the pictures you intend to include. And if he found some of them not to his liking (not even illegal per se!), he would automatically call the police. No explanation from your end allowed. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗜𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲. Again: people who want to share illegal material can still do so. Simply store them in an encrypted ZIP file and send it over. Filter bypassed. Again: This will upload also 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺 proprietary information you share via these chat systems. I'm sure that non-favourable governments and malicious actors will have a field day hacking the most centralized repository of all content shared in the EU. Let me spell it out: 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀. For #InformationSecurity and #EU's #Security in general. More on Patrick Breyer's website: https://lnkd.in/d7gaieM9 and here: https://lnkd.in/dqgGiQ3f

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As a Belgian citizen, it can be frustrating to witness the incredible pace of innovation abroad. We need to wake up. With a robust social security safety net and a top-notch education system, Europe is primed to lead the global innovation space. But the reality paints a very different picture: • Out of the world's seven trillion-dollar companies, none are European. We don't have an Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft or Nvidia. • Our top tech talent seeks higher salaries abroad, with mid-level engineers earning 2-3 times more in the US. • In 2023, Europe invested just $1.7 billion in AI compared to the US's $23 billion, leaving us with only 2% of AI patents and less than 10% of the AI scale- ups. • We have 20% fewer STEM graduates per thousand inhabitants compared to the US. • Our per-capita GDP lags behind the US by 27%, hindering our economic potential. • Across the Atlantic, big corporations spend 1.8 times more on R&D, invest 1.6 times higher, experience 1.5 times more revenue growth, and yield 1.3 times higher return on investment. Not to mention, the total market cap stands at a whopping 2.5 times higher in the US. While Europe shines in sustainability and inclusion efforts, and we lead in regulating AI, the question arises: What are we regulating if we're not building? Europe has made it extremely hard for people to found a start-up, raise capital, and scale quickly. Why did Stripe, valued at 65B USD and founded by two Irish brothers ended up as an American company? The VC pool in the US is almost 14x bigger than in Europe. And our countries are making it incredibly tough for our best innovators. Case in point is Norway that recently introduced a >30% tax on unrealized gains of your start-up if you leave the country. We all champion our work-life balance and social security system, but can we sustain it if our economy doesn't stay on par? And how do we defend lagging 2 points behind the US on the OECD "life satisfaction index"? The time to act is now. We have everything we need to propel Europe to its rightful place at the forefront of global innovation. Let’s start building, let’s start celebrating failure, and let’s regulate to accelerate and not to slow down.

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Cancel culture made in Luxembourg. Cancel culture is highly public in other countries but it takes a totally different shape in Luxembourg for 2 reasons. #1 History of the Press - Up until 2021, the main newspaper – the “WORT”- was owned by the Archdiocese through its investment arm “Lafayette”. It was sold to Mediahuis. - Every 'official' newspaper is subsidised by the State today. (Source: Government: https://lnkd.in/es-BZJEN) Consequence: politicians and powerful businessmen tend to feel that they can control the narrative. (and they tend to be delusional, in the absence of 4th power) On that note, many journalists encourage me to continue my Linkedin promotion of a healthy freedom of speech in Luxembourg, which means a lot to me. #2 Two Parallel worlds Before finance was invented in Luxembourg in 1981 through an extension of medical secrecy to banking secrecy, Luxembourg had 2 activities: agriculture and the steel industry. The massive growth of the population from 350.000 in 1975 to 672.000 in January 2024 created 2 parallel worlds: the public service and its ecosystem of "friends", where a majority of the native population works and votes. And the private sector – as in the BIG4s, Amazon, Lombard or Ferrero – where international decision makers evolve (and do not vote unless they take the nationality). This again creates an impression for locals that they can “control” the narrative through potential “administrative retaliation”. Long story short: - Cancel culture in Luxembourg in done behind closed doors. In public, they use the “passive-aggressive” tactics that distinguish our country, even during political campaigns 🤣. - Consequence: there is absolutely no debate. You may have noticed how I extremely rarely receive negative comments on Linkedin, even when I share important information that would justify an answer from people involved. - All in all, this contributes to a very high level of ignorance, low accountability and a fast deterioration of luxembourg’s economy. One example: 😬 After sharing the absurdity of bringing “Sophia the Robot” in 2024 to Luxembourg, I was called this week – behind closed doors – a liar, a bully, a troll, a populist and even a “Bardella”. Just like Cyrano de Bergerac, I wish that my "opposition" had more talent for insults and more brains for a debate. I have clearly explained and documented my opinion. People have also done their research online. So if you disagree, present your own arguments publicly instead of trying to cancel the messenger in such a weak way. Or simply apologise for a very poor decision 😬 This is how Luxembourg will progress and will leverage the presence of incredibly intelligent and experienced people in the country - in both the public and the private sector… - that I am privileged to call my readers. ❤️ Let’s make it happen.

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Let’s “Marie-Kondo” the ad-mosphere! At YOC we’re all about unlocking untapped potential. That means creating a better advertising experience for all stakeholders at every stage. From assisting web operators in maximizing revenue potential to delivering top-notch, relevant ads that resonate with users, our approach is comprehensive. We prioritize premium content and partnerships, ensuring advertisers effectively and ethically reach their target audience. In other words: less is more. Instead of just helping advertisers achieve higher ROI, we’re committed to reducing ad clutter and offering non-intrusive ad formats that enhance the user experience - whilst maximizing engagement opportunities. An undeniable game-changer that transcends mere advertising. We are all about fostering meaningful connections. Whereby users receive an appealing advert, for example through interaction, and the brand receives more attention and visibility as a result. That’s how we aim to spark effective joy in the ad industry. Eager to try? #HighImpactAdvertising #AdTech #YOC

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3 opportunities for Luxembourg in a messy environment. I don't know how you feel, but the World appears very shaky right now: -The conservatives just lost 238 seats yesterday 🤪 (They only have 110 left). Source: BBC: https://lnkd.in/eddN-yFS - France is going to vote itself into further chaos on Sunday - And in the U.S, watching Trump and Biden debate seems to be directly inspired by the Monty Python's Flying Circus. Citizens of the West are slowly feeling the effects of a new bipolar world (as in "The West no longer being the center of the world") where inflation and social regression fears are producing tangible effects. What about Luxembourg? It sounds counter intuitive, but for Luxembourg, this creates massive opportunities, related to the unique stability that the country offers, in 3 main categories: #1 Investors They need stability and fiscal certainty. We will see a lot of 'moves' in the coming weeks. #2 Wealthy families Luxembourg's nightlife might not be as exciting as London or Paris, but expect many families to leave France and the United Kingdom. #3 Entrepreneurs That is the magic in our digital world. Many entrepreneurs can move their headquarters and sometimes their whole company is a very short period of time. Long story short: The current chaos is full of opportunities for Luxembourg, BUT: - We no longer have a monopoly on anything: we need to COMPETE with Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece, Monaco, etc to capture these opportunities. - And we can double down by trying to attract critical businesses: I clearly have A.I. in mind, which will completely disrupt our back-middle office jurisdiction. - And finally we still need to reform Luxembourg, more or less at every level: housing, pensions, security, etc Let's make it happen.

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Macron’s snap election has backfired badly. It will put #France through a period of uncertainty, quartered by the extremes, and most certainly make it ungovernable. It will also test the #EU and the #Eurozone’s stability. This in turn is a great chance for the #UK to capitalise on the fallout of France’s election. Indeed, provided that there is relative stability around the UK General Election, Britain could become an island of stability, whilst the rest of Europe falls into turmoil. Time to turn bullish on UK assets. #smallcaps #midcaps #ukeconomy #investments #FTSE #AIM

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''We will make a video reportage of your company that will be shown to x million readers (on L'Écho/Le Soir/Whatever) for just a few thousands euros. It's also very good for your SEO!!'' Short tutorial on why you need to mark those emails as spam. 1 They scrape your company email address via automation, so there's nothing personal about it 2 Even if the publication is well-known, nobody will notice the sub-sub-page where your ''exclusive interview'' will appear 3 The Domain Authority of the website does not reflect on your content, if the page authority which embeds your content is zero 4 This is just a scam, with which traditional media try to cash on their (fading) reputation 5 If you don't believe me, ask them to send you an example of ''sponsored content'' and check it on Semrush (see image) In this example, they proposed me a page on a website with 20millions monthly visits. The problem is that we would have appeared on a kind of sub-page with an average 18 monthly visits. Moral of the story: - there's no shortcut to people's attention - you have to provide them with value, not advertising - the good news is that it's easier to ask your (potential) customers how you can help them, rather than ask a shady media company to buy clients for you

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(latent) Jihadis, merged with extremist Wokeists, is the easiest and sufficiently large constituency (> 50 million) in Europe to feed, facilitate, mobilise & weaponise, both in order to pull a civil war off the ground in Europe, as well as to compose an army of volunteers in the so desperately wanted direct confrontation by the West with Russia (and China). #SocialEngineering #CIA #NATO #FailingWesternPonzi #IdentityPolitics #Polarisation #MassImmigration #ExcessiveMonetaryExpansion #AcceleratingGrowthInWealthDisparity #FeedExistingSentimentsAndUnderCurrents #NarrativeControl #NeverInjectNewSentiments #JustAmplifyExistingUnderCurrents #DesperateAttemptToMaintainUnipolarHegemonyAndAvoidEmpireCollapse

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If #euco proposes Ursula von der Leyen for a 2nd term, she needs 361 votes in the #europeanparliament. Where to get them from ? This choice will determine #europeancommission policy agenda. Here are the options (based on "traditional" behavior of MEPs): #eupublicaffairs

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European Taxes on BYD and other Chinese BEVs My Comments: 1 China applies 25-47% taxes on international imports. EU is allowed to do the same. 2 I am operating very successfull 2 BYDs with more than 90.000 km run rate. They are better cars than many competitors at a price range of 39.000 Euro. The heavy Hybrid and BEVs from many European manufacturers are costly and designed wrong. 3 We should focus on faster and better BEV services, Europe can do far more and foster and build a strong European BEV industry. #eu #europe #byd #leaders 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🌹🌟🇨🇭

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Which party(s) am I rooting for? In Luxembourg - being the village that it is - people are extremely quick to draw conclusions. We recently published a video of Laurent Mosar - which got very popular - so people deducted that 360 is rooting for CSV. (Source: https://lnkd.in/enh-xcCn) A few days later, we published an article about Lex Delles - which was pretty positive about his energy and the ideas that he has already put on the table -, so I received countless messages complaining about my "change of mood". (Source: https://lnkd.in/ecVaiWEX) Long story short: The only "Party" we are rooting for is "Luxembourg". ,www.LuxembourgOfficial.com, and my Linkedin accounts are platforms where sharp conversations and healthy public debates take place. For example, we have sent invitations last week to the main European elections party leaders for a video interview in our studio - Charles Goerens, Marc Angel, Christophe Hansen, Tilly Metz - but if any other party leader contacts us, we will gladly interview her/him. (For the record, Christophe Hansen confirmed immediately. We are waiting for the other answers). It is a matter of feeding a healthy public debate and accepting to engage with ideas that you do not necessarily share. I am personally tired of the radically polarised world we live in. There are many ideas that I love in CSV's programme. But that is also true for several values defended by LSAP, DP, the Greens and thought provoking parties like Fokus. And while I disagree with the agenda of ADR, I would welcome an open conversation with Fernand Kartheiser. Long story short: at 360, we are only rooting for Luxembourg. All ideas welcome as long as candidates are actively CAMPAIGNING, not just posting selfies and belly dancing in bars. Let's make it happen.

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