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.

Here's a seven-point peace plan:

Feels like we should be calling it the #PutinPeacePlan in order to derail it.

My latest #cartoon for Encompass, 22/11/25. I hope he won't touch it, but then what? #zelensky #Putin #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #UkrainePeace

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

Macron passionate on why we shouldn’t let US and Chinese Big Tech decide what our kids watch online every day. youtube.com/shorts/Unk_u...

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros. Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla

Such a desperately sad headline. I feel like every time politicians think of something like this, they should go through the mental exercise of replacing the words "asylum seekers" with "Jews fleeing the Nazis" and see how that resonates with their conscience. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This will become a major issue in Europe too - in some places it already is. Data centres drive up the price of elecricity and suck up scarce water resources. The profits that are generated by Big Tech flow out of Europe largely untaxed. www.wired.com/story/the-da...

🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus. The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to: ❌Pause the AI Act ❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data This would be a major Big Tech win 👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...

Mijn gesprek bij het Oog gisteravond over de leiderschapscrisis van Keir Starmer. Spoiler: het ziet er niet goed uit voor Starmer, maar voorlopig blijft hij zitten waar hij zit. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/n...

If today’s vote on Omnibus I passes with EPP+ECR+Patriots support, it establishes the operational majority for the rest of von der Leyen's term This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...

When industry says “simplify” they mean “deregulate”. ‘Deregulation’ means less privacy, more consumer harms, less competition, and fewer safeguards. The tech bros will get even richer and Europeans will pay the price. Let’s not allow Big Tech and its authoritarian allies to tell the EU what to do.

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI infringed copyright law by using song lyrics to feed its chat models in a case that could have wide implications for European artists ➡️ u.afp.com/Snp6

Let’s take women security seriously, also online!

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

We are letting Big Tech steal our data, undermine our privacy, avoid our taxes, kill our companies, exhaust our natural resources, harm our kids, prop up the Kremlin, and enable scammers. And the EU responds by *deregulating*?

Can you think of a connection between these two FT headlines?

Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I see your worthy "why are you still on X" posts and sorry but we've gone way beyond that, no such incendiary publication would be allowed in printed form so why are we still thinking this should be allowed online?

On my flight from NL to UK today there was a passenger wearing a big traffic cone on his head. Not sure if this was a stag do outfit or a Halloween costume.

Timmermans het grootste doelwit van online toxische reacties. En Facebook speelt een opvallende rol. Nieuwe analyse: www.web-watch.org/news/timmerm... #TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen #PvdA @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

Latest tally sees D66 & PVV neck-and-neck. A centrist coalition has a big majority but faces hurdles. 4-party rightwing coalition is now just short of a majority. Talks will take time, but caretaker govt now only has 26 seats (out of 150), and parliamentary dynamics change immediately. (NOS image)

Frans Timmermans has just resigned as leader of the Greens/Labour alliance, following a poor election performance.

Forming a new government will be tricky as usual in the fragmented and polarised Dutch political context. But one thing looks certain: the new Dutch government, whatever its exact shape, will be a lot more pro-EU than the current one (admittedly a low bar). It may even be led by a strongly pro-EU PM

Dutch exit poll: centrist-liberal D66 leading.

We continue the Kremlin's long tradition of alliances with Europe's far right.

Don’t want to jinx it by saying it out loud, but following tonight’s final Dutch election tv debate and based on latest polls it now looks distinctly possible that the far right will *not* win tomorrow’s parliamentary elections. The Netherlands may get a government that is willing and able to govern

BREAKING: Russian propaganda site promotes far-right party ahead of Netherlands elections. "The party's channel is also in the top 10 sources on which the website has relied since its inception." defenddemocracy.eu/russian-prav... #TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen

This is the final 'poll of polls' before the Dutch elections. Three parties at the same level, and two more not much smaller. Given the high percentage of late deciders and voters in doubt, the outcome is still very much uncertain. 🧵

"Russische propaganda site 'Pravda' promoot FvD in aanloop naar verkiezingen" #NOSdebat #NLkiest #TK2025

One of the last polls ahead of tomorrow’s Dutch elections has the far-right PVV (Wilders), centre-left GroenLinks-PvdA (Timmermans), and centrist-liberal D66 (Jetten) on 23 seats each. Nailbiter finish to a campaign marked by the algorithm-fuelled spread of falsehoods and hate speech on social media

In a brazen display of monopolist behaviour, Amazon is “investing” 1.4 billion euros in NL to seek to dislodge one of its few remaining national-level competitors, current Dutch market leader Bol. www.nu.nl/economie/637...

Voor de kijkers naar #EenVandaag: Die negativiteit over migratie op sociale media wordt veroorzaakt door een hyperactieve minderheid. En krijgt dus onterecht zuurstof van veel traditionele media (en extreem-rechtse politici). www.web-watch.org/news/minderh... #TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen2025

Dutch election TV debate. Wilders: “Abolish development aid to cut VAT [on food]. They’ll be more hungry in Africa, but not here.”

Find out how to say it tonight on @thedailyshow.com!

15 minutes of your time, but worth every minute.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

TK25 Trend Tracker tussenstand: Rechtse partijen online dominant; @d66.nl ook online dé verrassing van de campagne. crm.defenddemocracy.eu/civicrm/?civ... #TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen

Just a great ad. youtu.be/pABUi669v3g?...

#TikTok and #Meta are in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the #DigitalServicesAct - #Instagram and #Facebook are in breach of its obligations to provide users simple mechanisms to notify illegal content ec.europa.eu/commission/p... #FakeNews

Today's Amazon outage should be a wakeup call. We've put too many internet eggs into a single basket.

The rise of AI threatens to deepen Europe’s dependence on American tech companies. Dimitar Lilkov argues that decoupling from the US is the only viable option if the EU wants to stay secure and geopolitically relevant. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Make tech executives liable if platforms don’t protect kids, say EU lawmakers www.politico.eu/article/tech...

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills. The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Belgo-Dutch media giant DPG is giving students in BE and NL aged 16-25 free access to its newspaper apps. What a great move.