Moldova showing us how it is done: the democratic pro-European forces in Moldova win the elections, against aggressive election interference by the Kremlin. Thank you Moldova for being an inspiration to Europe! 🇲🇩🇪🇺

Join us? 💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social 💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech 💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social &Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social

The harassment of @panayote.bsky.social of the Greek Helsinki Monitor must stop. For years he has been the target 🎯 of the authorities. He is punished for defending European values. @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu should speak out

Political capture of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office by national governments. National governments are annoyed by the highly effective fight against corruption by #EPPO and try to neuter it. Law professors ring the alarm bells in open letter 👇 We should all support EPPO

🎧🚨 New Podcast Alert! "The Right to Decide"is our brand-new #podcast exposing how sexual and reproductive rights are under attack across #Europe — and why this fight is about much more than health! #SRHR 🎙️ Hosted by former MEP @sophieintveld.bsky.social youtu.be/kMRzpTsJIRo?...

Journalists doing their job - asking questions - are facing smear attacks not just by politicians or business people, but even from fellow journalists. (In the country where the murder of a journalist and spyware attacks on journalists remain unsolved). Free media are vital. (Not only in the US)

Greek government denies any involvement with #Predator spyware scandal, but it has scuppered all efforts to shed light on it and its fingerprints are all over it. Still one case is going forward in court today. Spyware is used to silence critics and eliminate scrutiny @kostaskallergis.bsky.social

The last time @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu bought off Orbàn's veto, @europarl.europa.eu did much huffing and puffing and took her to court in a purely symbolic and meaningless move. #EUCO could have solved the problem years ago by stripping Orbàn of his veto, but the government leaders refuse to do so

"Allies need to understand that flattery isn’t a strategy — it’s a coping mechanism. Trump’s transactionalism can be dealt with, but only by collective, consistent and credible strength. Trump isn’t persuaded by flattery. He’s deterred by resolve" Great OpEd by @jyshapiro.bsky.social @politico.eu

Mona Keijzer gezakt als een baksteen voor haar inburgeringsexamen. De Grondwet is geen vrijblijvende suggestie maar bindend. Bewindspersonen horen garant te staan voor het naleven van de Grondwet.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. It is understandable if you are feeling anxious and helpless, but you have more power than you think. Each of us can do something, and together we will have a Mighty Roar. Read my pep talk here: open.substack.com/pub/sophiein...

The main issues in the revision of the e-Privacy Directive is not cookies but governments aiming to further widen the scope for (mass) surveillance. And of course the @ec.europa.eu is happy to oblige.

Extreem geweld met politiek oogmerk en vooraf gepland, en aanvallen op democratische instituties zijn terroristische acties. Geen hooliganisme.

Europa slaapwandelt. Een overwinning van Rusland is niet denkbeeldig. @carlomasala1.bsky.social beschrijft hoe aan de hand van een scenario in 2028. Gaan we nog tijdig wakker worden? Zijn interview in @standaard.be 👉 www.standaard.be/buitenland/e...

Dutch @vvdonline.bsky.social party voting a motion tabled by the far right FVD. Any views on this @reneweurope.bsky.social @aldeparty.bsky.social?

That only shows Parliament is not willing to do more than symbolic measures. But there are more tools in the toolbox than the nuclear option of a motion of censure. If Parliament does not play its role of democratic watchdog, it becomes redundant. Use it or you lose it.

🚨 BREAKING: Three Russian fighter jets flew into Estonian airspace today in a serious escalation on NATO’s eastern border. Read the developing story: ow.ly/rBwh50WZpov

The @europarl.europa.eu should use its political powers to hold the Commission to account, not outsource its responsibilities to the court.

Minister #Jambon @de-nva.bsky.social gaat fraude opsporen met algoritmen. Want dat was in NL ook zo'n succes. #Toeslagenaffaire. 🤦‍♀️

⚠️ @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de is taking 🇩🇪Federal Intelligence Service's use of #spyware to ⚖️ @echr.coe.int. RSF argues that spyware violates journalists’ rights in an inadmissible way & German law makes it too hard to fight surveillance by intel. agencies. www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/pressemittei...

U.a. mit @donncha.is, @frederikobermaier.com, @jurrevanbergen.nl, @sophiabaumann.bsky.social, @sophieintveld.bsky.social, @davidyambio.bsky.social, Rebecca White, Ruairi Nolan

Mario Draghi on integration and debt: "In other areas, deeper reform is needed: of competences, decision-making and financing. Ultimately, in some crucial areas, Europe must start acting less like a confederation and more like a federation. But such reform will take time—time we may not have."

Europe's independence moment or the long road to agony? This year’s #SOTEU was the perfect opportunity to launch a bold new vision for Europe. Instead, we were offered the status quo with a lick of fresh paint. 👇 My OpEd in @euractiv.com

What took them so long?

Mario Draghi on rising weaponisation: "So far, Europe's response has fallen into two traps: uncoordinated national efforts or blind faith that market forces will build new sectors. The first can never deliver scale. The second is impossible when others distort markets and tilt the playing field."

When Europe's leaders attack the European Court of Human Rights, we all lose. My new piece in @euobserver.com With Europe facing some of the gravest threats since the end of WW2, govts should be commending & strengthening regional institutions, not undermining them euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

EU leaders remain accountable to national constituencies, not European ones, making consensus-seeking their rational survival strategy. Until Europe creates genuinely transnational democratic parties, it’ll remain structurally incapable of decisive action. My letter to @financialtimes.com

Political abuse of spyware funded by taxpayer money. Essentially Europeans are paying for the destruction of their own democracy. Governments targeting journalists, NGOs, opposition politicians with spyware in order to silence them. Instead of tackling the abuse, the @ec.europa.eu is funding it

Total impunity for spyware abuse in the EU. European governments have targeted hundreds of critical journalists and NGOs, opposition leaders and lawyers, but @ec.europa.eu refuses to act. (makes @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu #SOTEU2025 words on "our values and democracies" sound rather hollow)

If the old world order is dead, then why does Europe believe the governance model designed for the 19th century would be the most suitable answer?

EUxit or EU-turn? A new, improvised, amorphous Europe is emerging, one without structures, rules, checks and balances, while the EU as a constitutional framework is becoming an empty shell. #SOTEU should usher in a new era of integration. My thoughts: sophieintveld.substack.com/p/euxit-or-e...

Brekelmans die het taboe op regeren met de PVV doorbrak en zo het huidige rampenkabinet mogelijk maakte? Díe Brekelmans? Misschien moeten we zijn oordeelsvermogen over de stabiliteit van coalities niet overschatten.

Hallo @nu.nl gaat het nog een beetje? Sinds wanneer is het handhaven van de wet “Trump tarten”?

The EU Commission has to stick to its guns and defend Europe.

Some very welcome muscle flexing by @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu this week. First on Gaza, now on Google.

Boeiend hoe #GLB bij @deafspraak.bsky.social met twee maten meet: in onze relaties met China, Noord-Korea, Rusland en Trump moeten we pragmatisch zijn en vooral niet zeuren over principes, maar inzake Palestina heeft hij morele bezwaren. Hypocrisie ten top. Zonder met de ogen te knipperen.

Quand la police se prend pour la service secrète et utilise des technologies de surveillance israéliennes c'est une pente savonneuse.

De aanval op de onafhankelijkheid van rechters is ingezet. Terwijl Europa schande spreekt van Trump's aanval op de rechterlijke macht, doen de politieke leiders hier exact hetzelfde. Met minder misbaar, maar net zo desastreus @knack.be www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...

Why does @europarl.europa.eu accept that the @ec.europa.eu is represented by a civil servant for such a super political debate?

Volksvertegenwoordigers zijn rekenschap verschuldigd aan de burgers, niet aan de partijvoorzitter. #GLB ondermijnt de onafhankelijkheid van parlementariërs en daarmee de parlementaire democratie zelf.

Kiezers vragen meer Europese integratie, vooral op het gebied van defensie. Gaat de verkiezingscampagne daar al over of blijft men weer lekker onder de Haagse kaasstolp zitten?

Vandaag opname van @epfsrr.bsky.social’s podcast over de anti-genderbeweging: conservatief geld, extreemrechtse manosphere, culturele oorlogjes van de tradwives. Als ik met iemand podcastbro wilde spelen, dan wel @sophieintveld.bsky.social die mensenrechten en liberale democratie altijd verdedigt.

Art 15 EU Treaty: the European Council “shall not exercise legislative functions”. This 👉 www.politico.eu/article/fran... is a power grab in broad daylight. #EUCO is systematically overstepping its powers, in breach of the Treaties. Will anyone defend the constitutional order of the EU?

While Europe is snoozing, Trump wants regime change in Europe. (Not necessary really, as EU Commissioners already obey his commands) 👇 @davekeating.substack.com

This should be reason for dismissal.

This is exactly how it works: @ec.europa.eu declares that the US cannot interfere with EU legislation, but enforcement will be so weak and slow that legislation becomes effectively null and void. The result of @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu using enforcement as political currency @douwekorff.bsky.social

“Change does not happen all by itself. We all need to act and take ownership of our own future. High time to talk Europe!” My column on the future of Europe 🇪🇺 featured in the ACADEMY® Magazine 2025 from Speakers Academy® 👉 magazine.speakersacademy.nl/int-mag/soph...

"The main thing to keep in mind is that we’re not powerless, even if our leaders have been acting like we are. Europe could be strong. It has all the tools necessary to be independent. The problem is that we don’t use them". @davekeating.substack.com on the European lack of self-confidence

The PM of Malta could have chosen to make a clean break with the past, but instead he is hiring several protagonists of that murky episode. Meanwhile the corruption exposed by Daphne still goes unpunished, and the mastermind of her murder is still free. Any thoughts @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social?

The EU meekly accepting US blackmail is not new. Since 9/11 the US literally dictated EU security policies, using inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program as leverage.