How does that help the non-Tesla car owners that want to use the chargers? Note that the article talks about "Supercharger stations that are open to non-Tesla electric vehicles".

Trading would be worse for (most of) the current EU members. Each individual country is in a weaker position to negotiate trade deals than the EU as a whole.
Countries would be trading, but they would gain less and lose more.

Note that trade deals often don't just contain rules about trade itself but the stronger partner often uses the chance to push other changes in the fields of economy, politics, health and environmental standards unto the weaker partner.

And throughout these changes the UK was a member of the EU and wielded enormous power due to being one of the most populous and one of the economically most powerful members of the EU:

The EU have been working on a common charging port for a decade now. Apple knew that this was coming, and they had all the time in the world to do something in anticipation of this regulation that was unavoidable.

The EU has been working on standardizing chargers for a decade. There is nothing sudden about it.
The writing was on the wall and Apple had lots of time to slowly make a shift.
They even started by including USB-C on iPads and Macbooks.

Yes, On Sunday, in fact.
Even though the railroad app warned that the train would be full and I should use a different train I had no problem finding a seat, as did several other passengers I saw that didn't have a seat reserved in advance.
That was a long distance train (Cologne to Berlin).

If you are talking about local trains it all depends on the time of day.
In rush hour when many people are trying to get to work or back home from work the trains are full, sure. But the same is true for the streets at the same time. And if you're using a train you usually don't loose hours waiting in traffic.

So it's a trade-off and a matter of personal preference, as these things usually are.

I assume you live in the southern hemisphere. Otherwise you would consider June, July and August summer.

Yes, we have manual ticket vending. Contactless cards and apps are a thing, but we Germans tend to be a bit resisant to change and move slower than other countries as far as digitalization goes.

So you're proposing smartphones come with two connectors in the future? A "more rugged 2-pole connector" for charging and a (potentially proprietary) connector for data transmission?
That certainly sounds like something a manager at Apple would consider as a "solution" for this EU rule.

Often enough by third parties because Apple didn't find them. And then Apple takes their sweet time removing the apps, unless there's a media frenzy about it.

Also, all the heavier elements on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system cannot have orginated within the solar system as our sun doesn't produce that kind of heavy elements.
So we all are made of interstellar material.

There are like 3 errors in this one sentence. You don't seem to know how unions in Germany work.

If I'm not mistaken, all able-bodied male Ukrainians are supposed to stay in the country and fight.
I don't know if fleeing makes him a deserter legally, but most surely in the eyes of all the men staying and fighting and probably in the eyes of all the woman and children who had to leave their husbands/fathers/brothers behind.

What? What does the situation in Ukraine has to do with Marxism. Neither Ukraine nor Russia have Marxist systems.

Oh, right. Bezos and Musk are known far and wide to care about their employees. This is the only reason they fighte tooth and nail against unions!