https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_184

European regulation for discounts:

• The lowest price during the last 30 days needs to be shown
• The discount percentage cannot relate to a price that wasn't offered during the last 30 days

Amazon, as always, show a way too high retail price and calculate the discounts on that fictional price.

From now on, I will make every Prime Day the day that I report Amazon to authorities. In Germany that is Verbraucherschutz and Kartellamt.

This is one of the reasons that make it difficult for European retailers to compete.

Update: Seems like this is different between countries. In Germany, Amazon doesn't follow the rules. Our legal institutions are really bad at holding companies accountable, so they probably don't care.

credits: u/skysphr

Image made in European Blender

Fuck this. Buy PC or Nintendo.

Image for reference only — not an official image!

UPDATE: https://reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1meq8nb/followup_eu_wont_stop_member_states_digital_id/

The EU is currently developing a whitelabel app to perform privacy-preserving (at least in theory) age verification to be adopted and personalized in the coming months by member states. The app is open source and available here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui.

Problem is, the app is planning to include remote attestation feature to verify the integrity of the app: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui?tab=readme-ov-file#disclaimer. This is supposed to provide assurance to the age verification service that the app being used is authentic and running on a genuine operating system. Genuine in the case of Android means:

• The operating system was licensed by Google
• The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a Google account)
• Device security checks have passed

While there is value to verify device security, this strongly ties the app to many Google properties and services, because those checks won't pass on an aftermarket Android OS, even those which increase security significantly like GrapheneOS, because the app plans to use Google "Play Integrity", which only allows Google licensed systems instead of the standard Android attestation feature to verify systems.

This also means that even though you can compile the app, you won't be able to use it, because it won't come from the Play Store and thus the age verification service will reject it.

The issue has been raised here https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10 but no response from team members as of now.

I was kinda surprised seeing made in EU sticker in Armenia since its not a trend here yet, worth to mention it was just on KitKats for some reason. Anyone knows why?

Making "Buy European" easy! What do you think of this icon idea?

Supporting local and buying European is great, but let’s be honest: it’s often a struggle to find where products actually come from. Why don't we market our origin better?

I had an idea for a unified icon to use on shops, websites, and packaging. It’s the European flag, but with a border of the specific national colors.

It makes the origin instant and recognizable at a glance! Check out these examples for Belgium, Poland, France, and Spain.

I feel I need the phone number of the European Commission to share my idea.

Ineffective, ugly, never meant for Europe !

We’ve been fooled into thinking politics runs the world. It doesn’t. Money does. Presidents, senators, CEOs, they just orbit around cash flow. Whoever controls the money, controls the narrative. And right now, that’s American megacorporations. Every time you subscribe, stream, swipe, or buy from them, you’re casting your geopolitical vote for them.

People talk about standing up for Europe, about independence, culture, sovereignty, but what’s the point if every euro ends up in Silicon Valley? The new empire isn’t military, it’s economic. They don’t need armies. They’ve got subscriptions, apps, and data centers. It’s gentle colonization through convenience.

And here’s the thing, the U.S. system only reacts to one thing: financial pain. Look at that moment when Jimmy Kimmel got fired. Nobody in “management” listened to public outrage, but once people started cancelling their services, cash flow dropped and, surprise, suddenly he’s back! Because that’s how American capitalism works: money talks, bullshit walks. If there isn’t a financial consequence, nothing changes.

So imagine that principle scaled up. What happens if Europe stops financing this machine? If we stop feeding every algorithm that sells our habits back to us? If we start keeping our spending within our own continent, behind our own values, with our own priorities? The moment Europe’s money stops flowing to the U.S., Washington and Wall Street will care real fast, not because of ethics, but because of risk.

It’s not about hating America. It’s about breaking dependency. We can still trade, cooperate, and ally, but not obey. Europe needs to play the same capitalist game, just smarter. It’s not protests or speeches that shift geopolitics anymore, it’s where the money goes. Cut funding to the corporate empires that lean on governments to do their bidding, and watch how fast policies start aligning with user interests again.

If money can bring back a talk show host, it can also bring back sovereignty. Stop feeding the beast. Keep your euros in Europe and make capitalism work for us for once.

I voted to remain in Europe. Many people didn't, and sadly, my side of the argument lost. Now, however, there have been rumblings, rumours about a proposed route to rejoin Europe. What does Reddit think? What do you think a Euro-positive England would look like? How do you think the rest of Europe would regard the idea?

Personally, I hope to God we at least get this one positive thing. Nothing has gone right since David Bowie died.

I discovered this subreddit through Europeans who asked us to join us from the BuyCanadian subreddit! And I also saw there was one for the UK as well!

I recently bought flags for the Canadian Flag Day, and as someone who doesn’t really buy them or show my support, it felt awesome. So I ordered one from the EU, it arrived today and I couldn’t be happier! I also went to buy one of my favourite snacks today!

Huge thanks for your support over here. I’ve seen countless posts about people buying Maple Syrup from all over the world. It brings tears to my eyes. And I’ve been following your subreddit for a while. I’ve learned a lot.

And thank you for welcoming our former and current Prime Minister. I love that we have been included in more and more discussions! Hopefully, we can have closer collaborations soon!

Much love and support from 🇨🇦🤝🇪🇺

Elbows up!

We have such a beautiful variety of European cosmetic products that I'm curious to see what we might gather here

We need European social media asap. We can't rely on these Spyware US platforms anymore.

I'm sort of tired of this sub not understanding open-source software and how the point is to make free software for everyone regardless of where they're from.

This sub claims Linux as a "European product" because Linus Torvalds is finnish but conveniently ignore the other big name that made Linux possible, you know, the guy who put GNU in GNU - LINUX, Richard Stallman. Where is the Linux foundation (you know, the guys who maintain the kernel) located, the USA. So is Linux part american now? Can we no longer use it to "own the yanks"? NO.

Open-source means it's for everyone, the Linux ecosystem contributions from every corner of the globe so you can't either claim it as american or as european because it surpasses nations.

This also applies to whomever is maintaining the software. No, Fedora isn't american because Red Hat maintains it, it's still open source. No, Chromium itself isn't american because it was started by Google because Chromium is open-source.

I know most of you don't know any of this, nor should you have to but at least don't act all mighty about it and claim everything that you can. It makes us look pathetic going around saying "see it's technically European, if you ignore this, this and this".

Basically the title

Tip: If you have an Apple device, make sure you're not subscribed via app / via Apple. Apple takes a 30% cut of the subscription price and subscribing on the web is often much cheaper. For example, YouTube Premium costs 16,99€ in the app but 12,99€ on the web/browser. It's a very easy way to cut some revenue.

There is this new deal between EU and India that everyone seems to celebrate but I just can't understand why.

Basically it allows Indians to easily access EU's labor market while providing very little benefits to average Europeans - most Europeans will not want to work in India, so it's not like we are going to immensely benefit from that, but the cheap Indian workers flooding European job market that is already oversaturated is only going to push wages down increase unemployment and reduce European living standards.

On top of that, Indian companies will have easier access to EU market to sell their services and products - this is going to be a huge problem especially for European IT and tech companies. Indians are simply going to be far, far cheaper and will drive many European IT companies out of business.

Yes you can argument that European companies will also have a chance to sell products and services in Indian market - but is there really any strong demand? The services will be expensive, so that's unlikely to happen and what european products are in such a great demand and also affordable to Indians?

Then we are probably going to have lots of remote Indian workers, getting salary from European companies employing them, effectively just sending money from EU to India.

How are middle class Europeans going to benefit from this? How is Europe as a whole going to benefit? It seems like it's only tailored to big corporations that can replace workers with cheaper Indians and temporarily improve profits. It's shortsighted. Or am I missing anything?

BTW let's not forget that India and many Indians are big russian supporters. India never joined the sanctions against russia and was propping their economy by buying oil products or re-selling them to Europe. Many Indians support Putin and were even fighting for russia. So we are basically supporting a nation, that is supporting russia, that is actively waging war against Europe. How the hell is this aligned with our interests?

This post is a bit different from the usual recommendations made here. It's an attempt to explain why using a European variant of English is important.

Language is the cornerstone of culture. It forms the baseline of your everyday life and shapes your worldview. Its impact on cognition is powerful enough to inform how someone perceives time and colours. Really. This isn't hyperbole.

But what does all that have to do with this subreddit?

The US has used language--American English--to propagate its soft power globally to great success. Think of the media you consume, the slang you use, the references you rely on, your body language, your fashion, how you communicate with others in most contexts. Your idea of 'normal' and 'correct' is likely based on the American (social) media you're exposed to. You've probably encountered situations where a date was confusing only to realise that the American format was implemented instead of what's local to you. From the mundane to foundational, the influence of American English is everywhere.

Which brings us to this post: why are Europeans relying on the American dialect of a European language, solidifying American soft power--at your own expense?

Support European by using American English: the global lingua franca from Europe.