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

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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/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://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.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)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42155779

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/32013167

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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://lemmy.wtf/post/19420830

Bye bye Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and many others. They can go and play "America First". We'll have our own independent system by november 2025.

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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28006908

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31948271

https://addy.io/faq/#whos-behind-addy-io

Who's behind addy.io?

My name is Will Browning, I'm a web developer from the UK and an advocate for online privacy and open-source software. You can find me on Twitter although I don't tweet that much!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41992545

“Below, you’ll find a list of brands that offer double edge razor blades manufactured within the EU, excluding European brands that import blades from outside the European Union.”

  • BIC 🇬🇷
  • Böker Solingen 🇩🇪
  • Fatip 🇮🇹
  • Merkur 🇩🇪
  • Kyone 🇳🇱
  • MÜHLE 🇩🇪
  • Personna 🇩🇪
  • Rex Supply Co 🇨🇿
  • Tatara 🇵🇹
  • Tatra 🇨🇿
  • Dovo 🇩🇪
  • Tiger 🇨🇿
  • Wilkinson Sword 🇩🇪

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10495973

swisscows.com is deffinetly worth checking out, as they not only do have a search engine, but also mail services and a messenger aswell as a vpn. And their name is kinda funny.

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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by ThisIsDys@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
 
 

As per one of the creators over on Reddit:

"I’m Amber, one of the founders of Griply: a goal-setting app proudly built in the Netherlands by a small self-funded team of four.

We created Griply out of frustration with how scattered personal development tools were. One app for goals, another for tasks, another for habits… it just didn’t make sense. So we built one app that brings it all together.

A lot of our users have switched from their “regular” task manager because they wanted something more goal focused - not just for ticking off tasks - but for making real progress on what matters to them.

With Griply, you can:

  • Set life goals and break them down into subgoals, habits & tasks

  • Make goals measurable with goal metrics (money, distance, weight, etc.)

  • Track your progress visually with charts

  • Organize by life area, priority, or type

  • Manage your daily tasks like any other task manager

  • Add widgets for your goals, habits, and tasks to your home screen

  • Use it across iOS, Mac, Windows & Web

We’re building this with a lot of passion. If you’re into productivity, self-improvement, or just love trying out European-made tools, we’d love for you to check it out. Any feedback is welcome."

An Android app is coming soon, and is in development. There's a signup on their website if you want to be notified when it's released.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10451325

Hi, quick question about the website, which is evolving quite fabulous.

The page is operated and sponsored by a German company Hanseatic Bits UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG .

I'm wondering: what the philosophy behind the project is? How is the funding taking place? What will happen to the crowd-sourced data and the joint effort? Don't get me wrong, but putting effort in a closed source database that belongs to a company, which then claims the copyright of said database (German Urheberrecht), is something I would like to discuss upfront.

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