UK travellers warned of EU border deadline for rules enforced today

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-travellers-warned-eu-border-36526771

Study dean chores of the day: freeing course descriptions from the jails of PDFs containing tabulated data. What a nightmare.

#academia #redtape

Keir Starmer vows Brits will feel better off this year - but it's not 'job done'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-vows-brits-feel-36501870

EU Made Simple — Europe Can Replace U.S. Trade Dependence – Here’s How

The EU has the world’s largest Single Market, but hidden internal barriers still act like a 44% tariff—this episode explains why goods don’t move freely yet, and how fixing that could restore Europe’s competitiveness.

Nebula
https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/planning-commission-ruling/ I had not realized that an entire basket of zoning process improvements I had taken for granted had been killed in Virginia since 2012. This change has caused a process we intended to be fast and inexpensive to become a six month ordeal for requests as small as a fence or shed. #Virginia #zoning #housing #RedTape #cville
Virginia Supreme Court ruling limits power of planning commissions

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that planning commissions do not have the power to grant waivers that allow property developers to deviate from zoning ordinances. “Delegation of such authority to the [Albemarle] planning commission is inconsistent with the general role of planning commissions, as reflected by their enabling statutes,” reads the ruling issued last […]

Charlottesville Tomorrow
@neil
Understandable #ipv6 is not nearly as ubiquitous as it should be.
#RedTape ?

Not sure. But it makes me sad
(Please don't check this instance  for ipv6 ....... Ouchy)

RE: https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115515656338429629
Honestly I never got why #Japan is so obsessed with #Germany either tbh..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ubyzKE8jA

There is so much not working in germany.
#RedTape , Fractions, homelessness etc.
We have no right to be too proud...
Arrogance we have in masses tho.
Why ? Beats me.

Now if #HiroyukiSawano could realize this too, #Aimer would be saved feom singing yet another semi #germanic #song or.. #rap.
It'd be best for all.

Also Jojo and the "Deutz Techology" lol

#ConfusedCea
#repost •acws #acws
Explaining Japan’s Weird Obsession With Germany

YouTube
Virginia legislators offer housing ideas ahead of 2026 session

Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger is still staying mum on how she’d like to deliver on one of her biggest campaign promises, but her election night speech offered some hints.

WVTF
https://www.richmonder.org/affordable-housing-and-other-nonprofits-launch-campaign-in-support-of-zoning-code-changes/ “In particular, affordable developers have pointed to lot width and single family restrictions that have meant most duplex proposals or those involving parcels less than 50 feet wide have had to go through a lengthy — and costly — special use permit process requiring extra review and public hearings” #RVA #housing #zoning #shortage #inflation #RedTape #inequality
Affordable housing and other nonprofits launch campaign in support of zoning code changes

A coalition including many of Richmond’s most active affordable housing developers has launched a campaign in support of the city’s ongoing effort to overhaul its 1970s-era zoning code.

The Richmonder

@MelissaBearTrix

Oh?

I thought Australian business was about #freemarket and less #redtape?