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`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.
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.
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
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.
The deportation plans might barely slow down the destruction of European culture and social cohesion. Massive amounts of peoples have citizenship, while considering themselves to be foreigner.
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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"
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
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
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
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.
Holy moly. North volt works with Chinese machines, Chinese workers, a loss of a billion and is this market not oversupplied (buyers market) There comes a time you have to cut your losses and admit that you lost on all fronts.
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…
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).
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. :)
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"
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.
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.
Amazing format!
The most cliche format smh
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.
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
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 :)
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
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
Content is much appreciated
Love the format
Cool format! Greetings from Lviv, Ukraine.
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
It is great to have this format of news from Europe, including of some overlooked news.
Great format. Go on!
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.
Really like the format. I hope the series continues
This is a good format! Finally more EU focused timely content. Thank you!
That format is fucking awesome, please keep it up
You are doing great! Please continue!!
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.
There is interest in this format!
It's a great format, keep them coming.
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.
You may move the speaker at same size to 1/3 of the screen and the other two-thirds could be your slides
Love the format!!! It's a keeper in my book.
More weekly news pls
The deportation plans might barely slow down the destruction of European culture and social cohesion. Massive amounts of peoples have citizenship, while considering themselves to be foreigner.
Love this new format! Please keep it up! ❤
I like this format!
Good format.
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.
This format is nice!
Youre on the right path! Greetings from a proud Patreon
Much appreciated!
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!
Cool formar. Keep it up!
love this video!!!
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.
Germany sent back two.migrants to Afghanistan and I don't hear anyone voicing human rights concern
2 out of hundreds of thousands
Can't cut pensions for Old retirees
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...
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.
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Great format
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.
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"
Great format i approv it
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.
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 this!
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
4:10 bro just added a brand new province to the Netherlands.
don't use AAVE
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
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.
Love it
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
Holy moly. North volt works with Chinese machines, Chinese workers, a loss of a billion and is this market not oversupplied (buyers market)
There comes a time you have to cut your losses and admit that you lost on all fronts.
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?
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.
It would be nice to have your slides at least stay 3 seconds . Tnx
From Europe deported to Asia !
I'm a fan of it.
LG is a South Korean company
He did say China *and* Korea.
how does an illegal immigrant even get ownership of a port?????? they don't even own any boats!
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…
We are screwed...
Short and to the point, i like this format.
There's interest!! Thanks for the video :D especially since TLDR is showing lots of bias.
More animation so I can easily tell what each part of video is about without having to stop to listen
Curious that there is more talk about the format and not the content.
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.
I like the format.
In the deportation centers must be organized production of something. So the migrants will have a chance to pay the damage which they inflict.
Too many people not working that could.
LG is South Korean, not Chinese, otherwise great video
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
Very nice format, keep it up
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).
Great video man, loved the format
Great episode, more of this please!
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. :)
This new format is great, Ill be waiting for the next one.
Nice format!
Comment for the algorithm
Another round of tariffs of tarrifs on Chinese cars. 😂
I have never thought that might be so disgusted by mentioning human rights organizations...
So Good
I'll continue watching this format if the topics remain interesting :). With this you'll have me watching next episode!
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"
Great video, keep up the good work. 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈
It's great format
Great series idea.
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very nice, keep it up!
France has reached us italians !!!
Unacepteble !!!!
Come guys, you know what to do !! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Nice Video , keep it up !
I love your new weekly news! Can't wait to watch every week!
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I thought it was illegal's deportation😢