Correct. There is freedom of movement between the EU and Switzerland.Switzerland is also part of Schengen, so there is not even a need to show a passport at the border.
The article does say that it was the local council that wanted to prevent them from moving there.
I'm not saying there definitely is a discriminatory motive.. I do not know how the people of Switzerland look at the Romani people.But given the way Roma are treated in much of Europe, and Switzerland's reputation for being somewhat conservative, I am not discounting the possibility that they are being discriminated against here.
The equivalent in the US would be if a couple of families of black people wanted to move to a predominantly white town in the south, and the county would step in claiming there are no more homes available.
"Travelers" does generally refer to the Romani and Sinti people who live a nomadic lifestyle.
The French version of the article uses the phrase "les gens du voyage", which according to the French Wikipedia page is often used to refer to the "Roma of France (including the Sinti and the Gitanos)".
So I think it's fairly safe to assume that that is what they mean with "travelers" in this article.
Homegrown criminals. He wants to deport US citizens (explicitely rather than "accidentally")
Edit: And don't fool yourself, this will happen without due process."Criminal" just means the Trump administration accuses you of being a criminal, rather than it actually needing to be proven in court that you broke the law.
The Dutch Wikipedia page says that iDeal was bought by EPI in 2023. They then launched Wero in 2024, and eventually iDeal will be renamed to Wero (Note it says renamed and not replaced)
Maybe they rebranded it? Maybe they reused the technology? I'm not quite sure if and what the relation is.
Edit: This blog post from 2023 claims that EPI said iDeal will be used as the foundation for their (then future) payment platform Wero
Its not really new. Wero is a rebrand of the Dutch iDeal which has been in widespread use for over a decade
Edit: After trying to find a source for that claim, Im not so sure its correct. The EPI did buy iDeal several years ago, but the text I'm finding doesn't say Wero is a rebrand of iDeal outright.
iDeal will be replaced by Wero (either the technology or the branding?) in the NL by 2027
AZERTY is not really about being similar to QWERTY. It's the French standard keyboard layout.Similarly QWERTZ is the German standard keyboard layout.
Most (European?) countries use some variation of QWERTY with the symbols and special characters moved around to fit their respective languages better. Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY, but with additional modifier keys to make special characters available (It's called US International)
There is also niche layouts like DVORAK (optimized layout for English) and BÉPO (optimized layout for French).
What is the reason you switched to AZERTY, if I may ask? I'm quite curious.
That is basically the point of these counter tariffs.
They aim to hurt US industries, mainly from predominantly Republican states, while attempting to minimize the negative effects for European consumers and industry.
That is why they mostly cover luxury goods like yachts and motorcycles, and agricultural/other goods for which we can change suppliers to a country that is not tariffed.
The experiment isn't to make weed sales legal. The experiment is to make growing weed commercially legal(-ish). The sale has been legal-ish since the 1970s already.
Technically weed is not legal, but sale, posession, and growing for personal use have been officially tolerated (gedoogbeleid) for decades. They are effectively legal in anything but name.
Growing weed for non-personal use is not tolerated. But it is tolerated that the coffeeshops which are allowed to sell weed, buys weed from these illegal growers. Its the one major hitch in our drugs policy, which many believe doesn't make any sense.
So this experiment is meant to create a way for companies to grow weed in a way that will be officially tolerated as well. And we just reached the next stage of that experiment where coffeeshops in the participating cities are no longer allowed to buy weed from illegal sources.
This can lead to official legalization of weed. But that would effectively not change anything in practice, compared to how things are run already.
My guess is that they are referencing the default applications for Android Auto?
Google Automotive Services, consisting of Google Maps, Google Play and Google Assistant, is an offering enabling the use of such services in in-vehicle infotainment systems
I suggest you take a look at the Signal messages that got leaked in the Atlantic, they speak volumes.Those chat logs do not suggest that what America is doing is based on rational policy
You should probably also make sure to have a copy at home in case they take it from you