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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771
1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin.
In January 1913, a man whose passport bore the name Stavros Papadopoulos disembarked from the Krakow train at Vienna's North Terminal station.
Of dark complexion, he sported a large peasant's moustache and carried a very basic wooden suitcase.
"I was sitting at the table," wrote the man he had come to meet, years later, "when the door opened with a knock and an unknown man entered.
"He was short… thin… his greyish-brown skin covered in pockmarks… I saw nothing in his eyes that resembled friendliness."
The writer of these lines was a dissident Russian intellectual, the editor of a radical newspaper called Pravda (Truth). His name was Leon Trotsky.
The man he described was not, in fact, Papadopoulos.
He had been born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was known to his friends as Koba and is now remembered as Joseph Stalin.
Trotsky and Stalin were just two of a number of men who lived in central Vienna in 1913 and whose lives were destined to mould, indeed to shatter, much of the 20th century.
It was a disparate group. The two revolutionaries, Stalin and Trotsky, were on the run. Sigmund Freud was already well established.
The psychoanalyst, exalted by followers as the man who opened up the secrets of the mind, lived and practised on the city's Berggasse.
The young Josip Broz, later to find fame as Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Tito, worked at the Daimler automobile factory in Wiener Neustadt, a town south of Vienna, and sought employment, money and good times.
Then there was the 24-year-old from the north-west of Austria whose dreams of studying painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts had been twice dashed and who now lodged in a doss-house in Meldermannstrasse near the Danube, one Adolf Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
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The international coalition is conducting military exercises with the participation of helicopters in the "Koniko" field, northeast of Deir Ezzor
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https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1505537139332759556
Europe is a powerhouse of innovation.
This week Intel announced its €80 billion investment plan for Europe over the next decade.
↓ With this groundbreaking investment, Intel will bring its most advanced technology to the EU and shape the next generation 🇪🇺 chip ecosystem.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_22_1764
>https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_22_1764
Ladies and gentlemen,
Statement by President von der Leyen on Intel's announcement of its investment plans in the EU
A month ago, the Commission presented the EU Chips Act.
With the EU Chips Act, we want to make Europe a leader in the global semiconductor production. And we also want to strengthen our resilience, with home-grown, secure technologies, which are invaluable assets in the turbulent world we live in.
Our goal is to have 20% of the world's microchips production in Europe, by 2030. That's twice as much as today, in a market that is set to double in the next decade.
And it's not just about quantity. I want Europe to cross new frontiers in innovation. Breaking the 3 nanometers node barrier, for example. Creating energy-efficient chips. And also developing new technologies, new products and applications, that our minds can't even conceive today.
Yes, this is a challenge. And to take it up, it's not just a question of building a few big fabs, in some EU countries. We need to mobilise the best that Europe has: from fundamental research all the way to market applications. We need a network of research institutes, prototyping, testing and advanced production and packaging facilities, everywhere on the continent. In short: we need a true whole-of-Europe approach.
And for this, of course, we need massive investments.
This is what brings us here today.
In total, more than 43 billion euros of public investment, both EU and national investments, will support the EU Chips Act until 2030. It will make Europe a more attractive place for tech companies to invest in cutting-edge chips development and production.
This is why I see today's announcement by Intel as a first major achievement under the EU Chips Act. An 80 billion euros investment over the next decade across the entire semiconductor value chain. From R&D to manufacturing and advanced packaging. With many strong local partners.
It is a considerable contribution to the European Chips ecosystem that we are building right now. It will create new, well-paid jobs throughout Europe. And I'm sure that it will pave the way for more companies to follow suit.
My message is simple: Europe is a powerhouse of innovation.
We have some of the best minds and talents in research and development. We have skilled workers. We have a stable and attractive market.
And we are open for business.
Thank you.