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Interesting:
Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱🧀). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs.

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Why is every second German startup still being named after Zalando? It’s 2025 already, not 2012.

I’m pretty sure that if I dig in the company register, I’d find at least a hundred registered companies, whose names end in either “…ondo”, or “…ando,” or “…endo.”

It was fashionable to do so after the monstrous success of Zalando in the early 2010s, but it’s been 15 years already. This ship has sailed. Fresh brand creativity is badly in need here.


#germany #startups

It is nice to see that a growing number of people are becoming aware of Arte TV for the first time.

(original post here: social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11415)

We told you that the service is free, but this is only partially accurate.

It is a public service broadcaster funded by French and German taxpayers. 💸

The source of payment differs between France and Germany.

In France, people used to pay around €140 per year to finance public broadcasters. This tax was abolished in 2022, and the funding of public broadcasters comes from VAT now, an indirect tax that applies to most goods and services.

In Germany, a flat rate of €18.36 per month is paid by each household, ensuring that the entire population contributes to the funding of public broadcasters like Arte.

Some programmes are translated into other European languages, with funding support from the European Union (English, Spanish, Polish, and Italian).

For more detailed information on the funding mechanisms, see the following link: arte.tv/sites/corporate/en/fun

Thanks to the French 🇫🇷 and German 🇩🇪 taxpayers! 😀 Danke, merci !

Pooh sad: Netflix: 13.99€: US brainrot content made for people on their phone
Pooh happy: Arte: Free, no ads: thousands of programs, documentaries, concerts, news from Europe
Vivaldi SocialAll Europeans 🇪🇺 (@ueeu@vivaldi.net)Attached: 1 image Netflix versus Arte Arte TV: https://www.arte.tv/en/ Arte Concerts: https://www.arte.tv/en/arte-concert/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@arte Image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jaj76t/the_app_works_great_and_they_also_offer_games_btw/ #netflix #arte #europeanalternatives
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German parliament to debate radical borrowing rule changes to boost defence

Election winner Friedrich Merz also trying to seal €500bn fund to revive economy before new parliament convenes

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

The Guardian · Merz presses Greens to name their terms for German defence spending riseBy Kate Connolly