Trade deals work, so work on trade deals

🥳New free trade agreement between EU and Indonesia. Massive reduction of tariffs, new opportunities for export and agreements on rare earth minerals. 👏 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Ten years ago turkey shot down a Russian fighter yet in its airspace. Not one Russian fighter yet has been in Turkish airspace ever since

Apple claims to have taken a revolutionary step in the memory security of its devices. This would make hacking an Apple device significantly more expensive and difficult. Let's hope this is true and serves as an example/benchmark for other manufacturers to follow: security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

Gave several comments in @FT today: European export controls is a big deal and I fully applaud it on.ft.com/4gp53pv

New free trade agreements, please. Fast!

Brilliant move by @ASMLcompany to invest in @MistralAI: it helps to build a European AI Ecosystem. As Mistral helps determining the next generation of lithography, it can also help ASML to streamline internal processes. European tech integration. May others follow 🙏 👏

Russische hackers worden kennelijk niet warm of koud van het onklaar maken van duizenden computer servers door @europol.europa.eu (desalniettemin bravo👏!). Het doel moet daarom het hoofd van de slang zijn: uiteindelijk vinden we de daders en is er gerechtigheid pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/aanvallen-ga...

Vacation greetings from Italy 🇮🇹 Make Trade Free Again!

Unilaterale handel-consessies aan Trump worden nu weggezet als winst: onzin natuurlijk. Brussel heeft dus werk te verzetten om sterker te staan tegenover de VS en China. (1/2)

Chinese cyber militia units contribute personnel, tools, and infrastructure to the Chinese army. It blurs the line between state and private cyber capabilities and suggest that Chinese cybersecurity firms may act as vectors for state-aligned operations in a conflict. margin.re/mobilizing-c...

Nieuwe handelsakkoorden zijn noodzakelijk nu de VS en China proberen Europa af te knijpen. Maar in Brussel gaat het sluiten van die akkoorden tergend (!) langzaam. Koppel daarom onderhandelingen over handel los van andere zaken; ontkoppel de dominee en de koopman. Opinie in @fd.nl

AI models not only think in human language but also develop their own: incomprehensible for humans to understand what they mean and how they arrive at conclusions. Cause for concern for 40 people who work on it daily: keep AI under control with regulation tomekkorbak.com/cot-monitora...

Spain is making a big mistake by letting Huawei store its wiretaps www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Als u SharePoint Server gebruikt en sinds 8 juli geen patches meer hebt geïnstalleerd, onderneem dan nu actie. Voer een patch uit en voer forensisch onderzoek uit, want uw systeem is waarschijnlijk al gehackt

Om impact te maken kan het helpen om ook in buitenlandse media op te treden. De Duitse ARD zendt deze reportage over de dreiging van Chinese omvormers in kritieke infrastructuur uit. Ik bekritiseer de Duitse minister die zegt dat we er niks aan zouden kunnen doen 🤦‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcfU...

A weak European response to China cutting off our industries from rare earth materials will only encourage more coercion in the future. So show strength and determination

Europe faces dual coercion: tariffs from Trump and China’s strategic chokehold on rare earth exports. Epic picture from this morning’s breakfast meeting/prayer with Trade Commissioner Sefkovic. He got our message: be strong 💪and don’t invite future coercion

This weekend and next week in Strasbourg I will negotiate a resolution on how to tackle China’s raw materials export restrictions to Europe. It’s not in the newspapers that much, but European industries are currently shutting down because China is squeezing us. Vote on Thursday🗳️

Stop het somberen. Europa kan op termijn als sterkste uit de bus komen en er is geen enkel probleem dat we niet samen in Europa kunnen oplossen. Maar stop aub het somberen en ga aan de slag! Mijn jongste column in iBestuur Magazine ibestuur.nl/artikel/stop...

Russia increasingly uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, Dutch intelligence reveals. Next step is to identify the Russian individuals who committed these war crimes and indict them. They must understand: The Hague is the only city outside Russia you are welcome to

Hackers breached Norwegian dam and opened the valve. ‘The valve ran at full capacity for four hours before the unauthorized change was detected’. Unclear intent energiteknikk.net/2025/06/hack...

Dutch secret weapon for a succesful NATO summit: raw herring from the North Sea and strong liquor / jenever

Today in the New York Times I argue that Trump’s manoeuvres to shut down parts of the International Criminal Court in The Hague through Microsoft is the first of more accidents waiting to happen between US Tech and Europe. So we must act and become more sovereign. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

De NAVO-top komt eraan: Een nieuwe oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, Russische dreiging en miljarden aan defensie op tafel. NAVO-chef Rutte slaat alarm. Hoe vliegen we dit aan? In discussie gaan: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, @bartgroothuis.bsky.social en @michellehaas.bsky.social Via: bit.ly/m/Bureau-Bui...

The European electrical grid is too Chinese. We are too vulnerable. Make it safe again

The only reason Ayatollah Khamenei thus far remains in power in Iran, is because of the support of Russia and China. But Russia abandoned Iran today as its ally. The heat is on. Europe must stand with the brave people of Iran and put maximum pressure

The Iranian people want a different regime

This article is avoiding what needs to be said: the Australians need to go French

The Islamic Regime of Iran, supported by China and Russia, took a big hit last night because Israel did what it had to do. Europe is not part of the war, which hopefully de-escalates, but Europe is part of the conflict. Will ask for a debate next week in Strasbourg

Hoe moet de NAVO de dagelijkse cyberaanvallen vanuit Rusland pareren? Paul van Liempt bespreekt het met VVD-Europarlementariër @bartgroothuis.bsky.social en HCSS analist Hans Horan, in podcast De Strateeg op BNR.

Multiple telecom providers have invoked legal strategies to protect themselves from disclosing compromise by the hackers. Inside two major U.S. telecom operators, incident response staff have been instructed by outside counsel not to look for signs of Chinese hackers🤦‍♂️ www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Heel leuk dat alle media duiken op het relletje tussen Musk en Trump, maar er gebeurt ondertussen iets veel fundamentelers met de wet waar de rel over gaat: alle remmen los bij het reguleren van kunstmatige intelligentie www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...

Dagelijks wordt het Westen op digitale manieren aangevallen. Hoe moet de NAVO zichzelf verdedigen tegen Russische cyber attacks? Paul van Liempt praat erover met VVD-Europarlementariër @bartgroothuis.bsky.social en HCSS expert Hans Horan in podcast De Strateeg op BNR. www.bnr.nl/podcast/de-s...

Het thema waar vrijwel elke regering mee worstelt is dat het oerwoud aan (vaak goedbedoelde) regels de uitvoering van noodzakelijk beleid onmogelijk maakt. Dit probleem is groter dan Nederland of Europa en moet opgelost worden omdat anders de liberale democratie het niet overleeft

Excellent letter from Commissioner @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social to start banning risky vendors from our telecom infrastructure. 14 member states still have huge Huawei dependencies. New EU legislation is needed. Just received this good letter:

How to protect our critical infrastructure and what is the way forward for European defence? Watch the debate today with @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu, @cds-defensie.bsky.social, @bartgroothuis.bsky.social, @derk.cda.nl, @annavanzoest.bsky.social and others. 🔴https://youtube.com/live/xajMoN2Qq7o

I recently lamented the terrible communications from #Galileo, the EU "GPS", during a recent disruptive test. I'm pleased to say important questions are now also being asked in European Parliament thanks to @bartgroothuis.bsky.social & his team: www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Russian cyber ‘criminals’ steal 50 million (!) from western companies, but suddenly transform into a Russian espionage operation when they hit soldiers or diplomats, and even commit sabotage in Ukraine. Russian cybercriminals are part of the Russian state www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/me...

Het is ‘nu of nooit’ in de politiek om kunstmatige intelligentie zo vorm te geven dat het ons wat oplevert, en niet tot een digitale kolonie maakt. Er is niets in Europa wat we niet kunnen bouwen, maar dan moeten we nú handelen

Germany’s largest telecommunication provider Deutsche Telekom is owned by Chinese hackers. And its managed IT service subsidiaries are too. No media reporting on it yet. Deutsche Telekom (addicted to cheap Huawei equipment) chose not to go public. Wake up! blog.eclecticiq.com/china-nexus-...

Even groot nieuws als Trump’s stupide handelstarieven tegen Europa is dat China de deur vandaag dichtgooit voor verder handelsoverleg met de EU. Het laat zien hoe ze Europa beschouwen: geen partner (1/3)

Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account. 
But let’s keep all dependencies on US IT alive. What could possibly go wrong? www.techzine.eu/news/privacy...

Europe needs a sovereign cloud, ASAP

I am surprised this isn’t getting the attention it deserves: Hungarian military intelligence is apparently mapping what the response in parts of Ukraine will be when Orban would march in with his army (1/2) ssu.gov.ua/en/novyny/sb...

The US-UK trade deal is an empty shell, and contains important lessons for the EU. The 10% baseline tariff remains, as well as the sectoral tariffs. There is a total lack of content, and it is full of contradictions. The ‘gains’ that the White House forecasts are really minimal (5 billion) (1/2)

Wees welkom op 7 mei in Straatsburg: een liefdadigheidsconcert door het Twentse koor ‘Mardi le Vingt’ in de Thomaskerk. Daar zingt het koor uit Tubbergen Joseph Haydn’s ‘Die sieben letzten Worte’. Toegang is gratis, donatie voor de NGO Protect Ukraine wordt zeer gewaardeerd 🙏

“Spain's meltdown happened because 15 GW fell off in capacity. Now imagine what happens when Huawei takes a 100 more off the grid. That's just one Chinese vendor” (1/3)

Didn’t the Spanish prime minister recently say certain threats will not cross the Pyrenees?

Stel dat de stroomuitval een cyberoperatie is, dan is Spanje beter voorbereid dan Nederland om snel inzicht te krijgen en te herstellen. Logging/telemetrie van kritieke infrastructuur en protective DNS programma’s zijn daar veel verder ontwikkeld. Dat is een les die we nu al kunnen trekken