Alice Stollmeyer

MEP @raphaelglucksmann.bsky.social on that other platform:

"Let's not kid ourselves. The U.S. has decided to sell Ukraine and Europe's security to Russia."

"Pour l'Europe c'est maintenant. Ou jamais."

EU fines Elon Musk's X/Twitter €120mn for transparency violations.

Good EU effort to limit deceptive practices on social media.

"Our objective is not a fine. When platforms offer solid commitments, we accept them. If they do not, we take action."

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

AI laat zich niet (meer) zo makkelijk voor het karretje spannen Verwijzingen van chatbots naar propagandabronnen zijn ofwel (sterk) teruggedrongen, of minder aanwezig dan eerdere audits doen vermoeden.

Our WebWatch did not find supportive evidence either.

www.web-watch.org/news/ai-chat...

Europe has lived through three great moments of truth:
1957 – Treaty of Rome
1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall
1992 – From a market to a Union
Each was driven by hope and confidence in our shared future. Today, we face a fourth moment of truth, and we must choose hope again. 1/2
#EuropeAtAMomentOfTruth

People continue to be surprised by this stuff as if we don't already know that the main point of strategy documents for the Trump admin is throwing far-right talking points together in exactly the way that produces maximum trolling.

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

"We are at war. In a hybrid conflict, the frontline is everywhere and everyone is on it." — @stollmeyer.bsky.social

MEP @raphaelglucksmann.bsky.social on that other platform:

"Let's not kid ourselves. The U.S. has decided to sell Ukraine and Europe's security to Russia."

"Pour l'Europe c'est maintenant. Ou jamais."

Speaking of Russian assets, is he himself one?

1.1 million Russian casualties, stalled near Pokrovsk since June last year, and still only 68 km from Donetsk, where they started nearly four years ago. Things must be really bad in Russia.

Great speech by EU EVP @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu on why Europe must stand up for its values. Don't join a race to the bottom, but hold the line!

Grateful to engage with her and EU Commissioner @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social on urgently defending democracy against hybrid, illiberal and tech treats.

Food for thought in this thread 🧵

Great speech by EU EVP @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu on why Europe must stand up for its values. Don't join a race to the bottom, but hold the line!

Grateful to engage with her and EU Commissioner @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social on urgently defending democracy against hybrid, illiberal and tech treats.

EU Commission Executive Vice-President Ribera:

Europe "must stand united, defend our values and resist pressure."

I will say the quiet part loud: from Russia AND the U.S.

Russian propaganda site ‘Pravda’ promotes far-right FvD ahead of Netherlands elections — Defend Democracy Pro-Russian propaganda channel seems to actively promote a far-right party in the two months leading up to the Netherlands' elections.

Surprise, surprise…

defenddemocracy.eu/russian-prav...

Dear @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, the digital omnibus is the opposite of what we need.

In the era of hybrid warfare, we must make it HARDER to WEAPONISE our digital infrastructure against us — not EASIER.

cc @kajakallas.bsky.social @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu

defenddemocracy.eu/europe-secur...

Who killed Europe’s single market dream? A decades-long effort to tear down internal trade barriers has stalled, leaving the EU economy ‘tagging along behind’

An incredibly interesting piece, by @henryjfoy.ft.com et al., on stalled economic integration in the EU. Failure to pursue the common good means we punch below our weight economically, yielding leadership to the US. We need more integration and more unity, even for the single market!

Europe’s psychology of weakness It’s time the EU ditched its failing strategy of “react, hope, repeat.”

Europe’s psychology of weakness:

When will Europeans decide they’ve had enough?

“There is no way out of this without investing in a stronger EU.”

by @sbeverts.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

US tells EU to 'roll back' digital rules against US tech companies | Euractiv US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick dangled the "carrot" of US giants investing in EU data centres in exchange for "reasonable" laws – and the "stick" of tariffs

Thanks, but no thanks. We don't want Amazon, Microsoft and Google to invest a trillion dollars in datacenters in Europe that will bring data of EU citizens within reach of Trump and will lock-in our digital dependence for decades to come.

We need to start building our own digital infrastructure.

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

I met the artist this morning, who told us that an American lawyer had projected this image on the Russian embassy in Washington DC just a few days ago.

I thought: he must be talking about @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

And yes, he was!

bsky.app/profile/benj...

I met the artist this morning, who told us that an American lawyer had projected this image on the Russian embassy in Washington DC just a few days ago.

I thought: he must be talking about @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

And yes, he was!

bsky.app/profile/benj...

Sightseeing in Riga:

Image of Putin’s skull by Latvian artist Kriss Salmanis, who created it in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

It hangs as a giant banner across the street from the Russian embassy.

First, they rewired information spaces (exploiting attention dynamics & inherent vulnerabilities of social & digital media). Building upon that advantage, they reconfigured the political systems. Now, they use both to shift values into something that would have been unrecognizable mere months ago.

Hello US government,

Anybody home?

#ArtOfTheDeal

Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.

BREAKING: European Parliament calls for EU-wide minimum age of 16 to access social media, video sharing platforms and AI companions, and proposes bans on the most harmful addictive practices.

#DefendDemocracy #PeopleVsBigTech

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Hello Riga!

Spotted at the airport:

Secret society of Santa Clauses?

Language matters @politico.eu. They are not US "demands", it is "blackmail". The @ec.europa.eu has no mandate to negotiate away EU legislation, nor the right to soften enforcement. The Commission has to protect European citizens, not US broligarchs.

From 19.00, @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social presents the European Democracy Shield proposal to @euds.europarl.europa.eu during an extraordinary committee meeting in Strasbourg.

"Parliament’s report on the EUDS will build on this further" @nathalieloiseau.bsky.social.

Details: link.europa.eu/7JxNyC

Theoloog hier. Er is niet zoiets als een joods-christelijke cultuur. Die term is bedacht als propaganda om Amerikanen te motiveren om ook in Europa te vechten in WO2. Tegenwoordig is het ook propaganda, maar dan anti-islamitisch. Ik zal dit blijven herhalen.