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.
I like this new format. From the other format i only watch videos with topics that interest me. This format with a mix of topics and a "news" like theme is more digestable.
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.
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`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.
You can't "fix" that situation. Not yet. Things have to deteriorate much further before actual practical solutions can be seriously evaluated. The truth of the matter is that Europe is simply getting poorer, which will have to lead to an adaptation of standards. More communal living for the elderly poor, less healthcare so they have to die earlier, using those that can still work to contribute to eldery care any way they can. But all of that would mean lowering current social and humanitarian standards. That sort of thing will only become acceptable when it is in point of fact already happening due to sheer necessity, not before.
@@jasonhaven7170 Doesn't help much. The kind of people that are happy enough to come to Europe are generally not an asset in the first generation (because of cultural background and how our social systems work), for the most part it's their grandchildren that become valuable. Whereas the kind of people that would help, because they have a solid education, prefer lower tax economies.
@@Volkbrecht In the UK, Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
Great video! Thank you for the important updates, I believe all eu citizens possess an inherent need to keep up-to-date with the big new across all member states. I'd love the idea, looking forward to more! Already subscribed
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.
Agreed, for ages the pension system was based on family. The elder would raise children and in return the children would support the elder, this was the most sustainable way. Now, in the modern world coming back to such traditions is impossible. As such, to emulate this system in a more modern approach, governments should reinvent retirement policies based on the number of children that a person has raised. This would not only fix a lot Europes demographic problems, but would also reduce retirement spending. As there now is a guaranteed return on it. Of course, people who aren't able to have children for valid reasons (infertility by nature rather than choice) should be helped. And those who don't want children clearly have enough time and money to sustain their own retirement without any external help.
In the Netherlands the pension people get paid is the money they earned themselves, I believe we're one of two European countries who've done this which my god am I glad we did this Our pension funds also balance out the state debt to around zero Of course we've been nagging other European countries for decades but they just didn't listen and got annoyed whenever the goody two shoes fiscally sound Netherlands came knocking on the door now we but especially other countries will feel the consequences
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
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.
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
Northvolt now got additional financing, Scania has announced they would exclusively use Northvolt batteries on their trucks. Additionally, the EU EV market is now growing again. With double digit growth compared to last year.
Killing an industry at which we are actually good (relatively clean and reliable engines) and trying to chase train that already left 1 years ago was and still is a big mistake.
Great video, could be better with the b rolls and editing in order to be more educational (take a look at TLDR). The overall concept is great. The higher production value, the more views you will get. Remember that youtube is a quality platform. Even Mr Beast has gone to one video per three weeks because he knows this.
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).
@@gabriele1695that’s why speaking about “Europe” is so misleading, every country has a different system, with some being a mix of the US and Italy and others being something else entirely. Also, if the Us market ever crashes again as i. 2008 the government would be in the hook for all of those liabilities (or just accept a great increase in old age poverty).
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.
Unfortunately you cannot fire public servants in france, until that law changes you cannot really implement massive cost savings. Same for Italy and Spain… if it wasn’t for that the state could be much more efficient.
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.
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!
How so? From what I'm seeing they are facing the same issue as most of the rest of the EU: an ageing population, unregulated immigration, decreasing ability to employ the working stupid, lack of meaningful natural resources. And at least for now they are adressing those with the same temporary fixes: reducing state spending to pressurize people into accepting worse social conditions, mainly worse wages and later retirement. Which is a rat race to the bottom.
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
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
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. :)
It got my subscription.
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!
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!
Love the new format! Keep up the rundowns :)
I like this new format. From the other format i only watch videos with topics that interest me. This format with a mix of topics and a "news" like theme is more digestable.
Quick, clear and concise I like it!
Keep up the good work!!!
Content is much appreciated
Love this format I’ve been looking for something that keeps me updated on Europe
Please keep these video formats coming, really nice to keep up
Great format, please keep it up!
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.
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.
There is interest in this format!
It's a great format, keep them coming.
Very much enjoy these new videos!
Great format. Go on!
Love the format
It is great to have this format of news from Europe, including of some overlooked news.
You are doing great! Please continue!!
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?
You can't "fix" that situation. Not yet. Things have to deteriorate much further before actual practical solutions can be seriously evaluated. The truth of the matter is that Europe is simply getting poorer, which will have to lead to an adaptation of standards. More communal living for the elderly poor, less healthcare so they have to die earlier, using those that can still work to contribute to eldery care any way they can. But all of that would mean lowering current social and humanitarian standards. That sort of thing will only become acceptable when it is in point of fact already happening due to sheer necessity, not before.
Time for immigration
@@jasonhaven7170 Doesn't help much. The kind of people that are happy enough to come to Europe are generally not an asset in the first generation (because of cultural background and how our social systems work), for the most part it's their grandchildren that become valuable. Whereas the kind of people that would help, because they have a solid education, prefer lower tax economies.
@@Volkbrecht In the UK, Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
Great format! Deep dives are nice but this covers more ground on important topics
Good format, keep it up 👍
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.
Really like the format. I hope the series continues
This is great and easy to digest, keep it going !
Love the format!!! It's a keeper in my book.
Love this format
very nice and interesting format!
Really cool format. I need it in my everyweek life 😌
Great video! Thank you for the important updates, I believe all eu citizens possess an inherent need to keep up-to-date with the big new across all member states.
I'd love the idea, looking forward to more! Already subscribed
Love this new format! Please keep it up! ❤
My Favorite Europe channel is back
It's a great video format
Cool format! Greetings from Lviv, Ukraine.
Slava Ukrayina!!! from an Italian ally in Braunschweig, Germany :)
@@vincenzoc.1781 Героям слава!
Love the format, made me become a patreon :)
Like it.
I always wanted to hear more from you :)
YES!! It makes sense because we have a large home market and the sector has strategically important.
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.
Not under democracy
Agreed, for ages the pension system was based on family. The elder would raise children and in return the children would support the elder, this was the most sustainable way. Now, in the modern world coming back to such traditions is impossible. As such, to emulate this system in a more modern approach, governments should reinvent retirement policies based on the number of children that a person has raised.
This would not only fix a lot Europes demographic problems, but would also reduce retirement spending. As there now is a guaranteed return on it. Of course, people who aren't able to have children for valid reasons (infertility by nature rather than choice) should be helped. And those who don't want children clearly have enough time and money to sustain their own retirement without any external help.
@@hustonmatew4824 accept immigration
In the Netherlands the pension people get paid is the money they earned themselves, I believe we're one of two European countries who've done this which my god am I glad we did this
Our pension funds also balance out the state debt to around zero
Of course we've been nagging other European countries for decades but they just didn't listen and got annoyed whenever the goody two shoes fiscally sound Netherlands came knocking on the door now we but especially other countries will feel the consequences
Good format.
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
This format is nice!
That format is fucking awesome, please keep it up
There is nothing morally objectionable to want to removed undesirable element from one's society. We don't owe immigrants ANYTHING!
Will barely affect 0.1% of immigrants
Great format
I like this format!
I like the format
More weekly news pls
love this!
Like the “news” format!
This is a good format! Finally more EU focused timely content. Thank you!
Cool formar. Keep it up!
You may move the speaker at same size to 1/3 of the screen and the other two-thirds could be your slides
Youre on the right path! Greetings from a proud Patreon
Much appreciated!
love this video!!!
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.
✡️
Because its a Scam for ong's that a lot of the owners/funders are corrupt politicians
Great format i approv it
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
I'm a fan of it.
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!
Northvolt now got additional financing, Scania has announced they would exclusively use Northvolt batteries on their trucks. Additionally, the EU EV market is now growing again. With double digit growth compared to last year.
Killing an industry at which we are actually good (relatively clean and reliable engines) and trying to chase train that already left 1 years ago was and still is a big mistake.
Short and to the point, i like this format.
Love it
Please, do deep dive on French politics and future changes to taxation.
I like the format.
Very nice format, keep it up
So Good
Great video, could be better with the b rolls and editing in order to be more educational (take a look at TLDR). The overall concept is great. The higher production value, the more views you will get. Remember that youtube is a quality platform. Even Mr Beast has gone to one video per three weeks because he knows this.
Europe for Europeans
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).
@@gabriele1695that’s why speaking about “Europe” is so misleading, every country has a different system, with some being a mix of the US and Italy and others being something else entirely.
Also, if the Us market ever crashes again as i. 2008 the government would be in the hook for all of those liabilities (or just accept a great increase in old age poverty).
Me likey new format
The total inability of the EU to ever get anything useful done, is truly a thing of wonder.
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.
Unfortunately you cannot fire public servants in france, until that law changes you cannot really implement massive cost savings.
Same for Italy and Spain… if it wasn’t for that the state could be much more efficient.
Great episode, more of this please!
Great video man, loved the format
>Company downsizing due to suffocating anti-business policies.
>Asks for subsides from the government.
Yep. About sums up the EU economy as of late.
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"
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.
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.
Nice format!
Great series idea.
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
Germany sent back two.migrants to Afghanistan and I don't hear anyone voicing human rights concern
2 out of hundreds of thousands
@@jasonhaven7170millions
@@LillianMot Okay 2 out of millions
Only 2? They gotta pump those numbers up
Europe for Europeans
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!
It's great format
Can't cut pensions for Old retirees
Love it
France probably has the most potential in all of Europe but they are ashamed to reach any of it.
How so? From what I'm seeing they are facing the same issue as most of the rest of the EU: an ageing population, unregulated immigration, decreasing ability to employ the working stupid, lack of meaningful natural resources. And at least for now they are adressing those with the same temporary fixes: reducing state spending to pressurize people into accepting worse social conditions, mainly worse wages and later retirement. Which is a rat race to the bottom.
It would be nice to have your slides at least stay 3 seconds . Tnx
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
very nice, keep it up!
Great vid
This new format is great, Ill be waiting for the next one.
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
Love the format
there is nothing more permanent than an 'exeptional and temporary' tax
We are screwed...