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Welcome to BuyFromEU—a community committed to supporting European-made products and services! Whether you're searching for locally crafted fashion, innovative technology, delicious food, or professional services, this is your space to share, explore, and promote businesses that strengthen the European market.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9301725

While I find the wiki-style site for European alternatives ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ ) very helpful and have started using it fairly regularly, I feel like it misses an option to just look up a brand or company and easily find out where it's from. Maybe that is already an option and I haven't found it. If so, please point me in that direction.

If not, what I would hope for, is a quick and simple place to check if a given brand or company is perhaps American owned (or more generally where it's profit ultimately goes). For example, I seriously doubt my mother in law would be able to know that Toblerone is an American owned brand. The current wiki pre-supposes that users already know this.

The average EU citizen is in his mid 40s and likely not all that tech savvy. Purchasing power skews towards older folks anyway, so it should be a goal to get this demographic on board. Does anyone have a starting off point where one can easily find the information on a specific company or brand on the go? Could something like this be added to the current site ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ )?

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Dear Fellow Europeans

Any recommendations on where to buy a small number “Buy European” stickers in various sizes and materials that I can stick to my laptop/phone?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42527553

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/237590

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61557215

Thankfully, Europe has loads of homegrown cloud providers. The largest is France’s OVHcloud, which runs the world’s largest data centre by surface area. Others include Finland’s UpCloud, Switzerland’s Exoscale, Germany’s IONOS, and France’s Scaleway (the cloud provider of choice for French AI unicorn Mistral).

Political momentum on this front looks to be building. In a speech yesterday, France’s AI minister, Clara Chappaz, called on the continent to “work as a pack” to take on US “predator” tech firms, particularly in the cloud services sector.

https://archive.ph/03Ihx

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42360563

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/219363

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42360563

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so sad it's made/assembled in HUN. Not a great EU partner to work with.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42319661

Canada supporting Europe by buying and promoting EU products and IP! We’re inspired by your independent spirit. Elbows up from across the pond 💪💪

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cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/30434

Wer noch immer Windows 10 im Einsatz hat, sollte nach Einschätzung des BSI zeitnah tätig werden und sich mit einem anderen Betriebssystem anfreunden. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42319521

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/32200000

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28294859

This is my website. It is not commercial.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32675349

Archived

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The sweeping new toy safety rules will also mean that all toys sold in the EU will be slapped with a 'digital product passport' in the form of a QR code displaying its compliance with EU safety laws.

Children’s squeaky plastic toys, trucks, blocks and dolls contain chemicals which are harmful to health, such as PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’, as well as other hazardous substances like bisphenols.

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Recently, the Commission said they would take a "holistic" approach to regulating large e-commerce platforms like Shein, and Norway is mulling a crackdown on Temu, including a possible ban, over the sale of toxic toys.

A recent investigation by Toy Industries Europe into unbranded toys sold online found that 80% of toys examined by the group failed to meet EU safety standards, including products purchased from Amazon, Wish and AliExpress.

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So I've been looking to get a good generator to cover for power outages, and Ecoflow has a number of affordable, personal, solar-charged generators. But, alas, they're American.

Does anyone know of any EU companies that build similar devices to Ecoflow's?

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Am Problem vorbei gekauft (netzpolitik.org)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
 
 
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A philosophical reflection: why are so many entrepreneurs obsessed with expansionism? Does it have to do with ego, with power, with greed and “always more”? What is wrong with the local market? Expansion at home, neighboring countries or - by extension - Europe. Surely that should be enough? Just making good money that you yourself and your group of workers can live a good life. Should that really be so much more? Or am I naive and still believe in fairy tales? Buy from Europe. Maybe we finaly are starting to understand the power of local businesses.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61095888

A Start Up bringing a new Phone into the Market. ITS worse a closer Look. Habe dun with it!

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