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Alice Stollmeyer

@stollmeyer.eurosky.social
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Founder of DefendDemocracy.EU Busy defending democracy against hybrid & technological threats. Open for new opportunities. 🏆Politico’s #Power40

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the appropriate way to convey this is that trump, musk, huang, amodei, zuck, altman, bezos & pichai agree to maintain a system of impunity for AI harms.
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Donald Trump says US tech bosses agreed to ‘self-regulation’ of AI risks
President says chief executives have signed a ‘morally binding’ accord following White House lunch
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Great to be back in Brussels! 🇪🇺 Starting with reopening of Finland’s Permanent Representation to the EU after renovations. With ribbon-cutting by EU Commission VP @hennavirkkunen.wsocial.eu & Ambassador Arvonen 🇫🇮 Looking forward to a week of moderating roundtables, giving a workshop, & coffees 😊
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Florian Schweitzer @flosch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Auch österreichische Gerichts-Sachverständige gehören zu den Kunden. Wir werden vermutlich nie erfahren, in welchen Gerichtsverfahren die Software eingesetzt wurde. Einer der SVs dürfte ein besonderes Pech bei IT-Security haben. Er veröffentlichte Kontoauszüge und ließ sie von Google indexieren.
Screenshot Kontoauszug. Absender geschwärzt. "1 Oxygen Forensics Limited LV85 RTMB 0000 6468 0658 1 2.399,00 EUR
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License fees Sale ID 109159
Verwendungszweck:
1 SEPA Überweisung Gesamtsumme: 2.399,00 EUR"
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies. U.S.-based data-extraction firm, accused of being secretly run from Russia, sold its services to European law enforcement. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺 #TechSovereignty www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
The writing has been on the wall for more than a decade. We must acknowledge that Russia is waging a hybrid war against democracies, especially in Europe* Hybrid threats and attacks are real and know no border. The frontline is everywhere. And everyone is on it. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
European Parliament demands firmer EU response to hybrid threats. 'EU must move from a reactive to a proactive strategy.' 'Cooperation with NATO needed to strengthen European preparedness, resilience and deterrence.' #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺 www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Netherlands' annual State of the Union coincides with International Democracy Day. King Willem Alexander urges all of us to protect and maintain democracy, as: "Democracy is a state of mind, which needs to be alive in all of us."
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 13/09/2026
Joseph Stiglitz’s pillars for a progressive AI agenda for the economy: First one is competition policy. Second one is regulation & accountability. The most important (third) one: using the increased productivity to create a better society — to get what we value. 💪 www.ft.com/content/49c0...
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Joseph Stiglitz’s ‘progressive AI agenda’ for the economy
A slow rollout will disappoint investors. A fast one risks undermining the industry’s own foundations. But managed carefully, this technology could benefit us all
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Kim van Sparrentak @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The fact that AI is sending unintendedly pregnant women to anti-abortion clubs is a direct danger to women in Europe. And it happens to play right into the agenda of Trump and his tech oligarchs. Together with @maritmaij.bsky.social and 74 other colleagues, I am submitting written questions today.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Just found out about #bloomscrolling 😍 My first #bloomscrolling contribution is dedicated to Ukraine. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine (pic taken on 3 July, in 🇳🇱)
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
‘Even today [in the Trump & Putin era], Europeans are “children of an age of comfort”.. who scarcely realise that humanity is not a passive state but a conscious act.’ * To use the words of Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince by @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social euobserver.com/235975/why-i...
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Why is the courage lacking to stand up to Trump? French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s wartime writings offer a clue
As the French pilot and author of The Little Prince noted in his Wartime Writings, if men are unwilling to fight for the greater good, all they will ultimately be left with is a peace anchored in sham...
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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
20,000 mail accounts. 20,000 blogs. 5,000 mailing lists. 1,500 websites. In Europe. Run by volunteers, perfectly legal, and decidedly antifascist, feminist, queer. Destroyed and shut down by Trump's administration, extra legally. It is astonishingly quiet. ⁨#Autistici⁩
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Trump administration is building the case for cracking down on the left by commissioning a study that contradicts everything else we know about political violence in the US, which comes overwhelmingly from the right. Here's the real science: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...
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The Rise of Political Violence in the United States | Journal of Democracy
In a deeply polarized United States, ordinary people now consume and espouse once-radical ideas and are primed to commit violence.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
Vooruitgang is helaas niet langer zeker. 'Wat overblijft is.. "Pessimisme van het intellect, optimisme van de wil." De werkelijkheid zonder illusies onder ogen zien en toch handelen. Juist omdat het niet vanzelf goed komt.' Heel herkenbaar, door @sbeverts.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Opinie | ‘Nu weet ik: het is helemaal niet zeker dat de geschiedenis zich richting vooruitgang beweegt’
Geopolitiek: Als scholier demonstreerde Steven Everts tegen Amerikaanse kruisraketten. Veertig jaar later pleit hij voor een sterker bewapend Europa. Wat gebeurde er met het wereldbeeld waarmee zijn g...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Climate crisis wipes out EU's economic growth. Brutal summer set to cost EU economy €180 billion this year — equivalent to 1 % of GDP, which is all the growth expected in 2026. “Every year adaptation without mitigation is a year borrowed against a hotter baseline.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe’s scorching summer is erasing its economic growth, says report
Dutch growth is set to be almost entirely wiped out, and France could be pushed into a contraction.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Each new attack on Ukraine is another reason for Europe to tighten the screws on Russia. As a response to the recent series of Russian airstrikes, the EU today adopted new sanctions listings targeting five individuals involved in Russia's military-industrial complex. (1/2)
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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
'Western officials also observed that actors within the Russian disinformation ecosystem reacted “very quickly and on a massive scale” to the events at the Spanish-Moroccan border.' Waiting for the investigation results...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The far-right reactions are not the real problem. They do what they believe in. The big problem is the similar reactions from liberal democratic parties from left to right. And thát, more than anything, is the problem of the 21st century!
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 03/08/2026
Massive heat wave, thousands dead, one of the worst fire seasons on record: 🦗🦗🦗. Morocco playing games amplified by Russian propaganda: 20 EU heads of state write outraged letters. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 This is how you lose a hybrid conflict.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Graag bereid om onze huidige en vorige Minister van Defensie een opfriscursus hybride oorlog te geven. "United we stand, divided we fall." @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social @minvandefensie.bsky.social #StrongerTogether #WeAreEU🇪🇺
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 31/07/2026
Weaponising migration was the first topic we discussed in the current mandate of the COM. It was during the very first meeting of this College, 11/12/2024. It’s not a new issue. Beyond facts & treaties,we proposed solidarity and unity. Acting always as an Union. commission.europa.eu/news-and-med...
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Commission proposes measures to strengthen border security and counter hybrid threats
The Commission proposes new actions countering hybrid threats from weaponising migration and strengthening security at the EU’s external borders. Find out more.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
🔥 €890 million fine for Google, for breaches of the EU's Digital Markets Act. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
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Nederlandse Democratie Coalitie @democratiecoalitie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Al is de leugen nog zo snel.. nouja dat is het probleem dus eigenlijk @stollmeyer.eurosky.social
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
“Climate breakdown is not a natural disaster. It is a business model that privatises profit and socialises cost.” #StopFossilFuelSubsidies #MakePollutersPay #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #GreenDeal euobserver.com/226432/as-eu...
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As Europe swelters, Paris judges say consumers aren’t to blame — TotalEnergies is
A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris. The judgment does not halt the company's fossil-fuel expansion. But it d...
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
Great write-up of our #DemocracyDrinks exchange with political scientist @casmudde.bsky.social: "Defeating the far-right is not enough. Unless the mainstream democratic parties not only deliver but also start to inspire." #DefendDemocracy voxeurop.eu/en/cas-mudde...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026
Got an invitation to Brussels #Freedom250🇺🇸 party? If you can't decline out of principle (like I did) for racism, corruption and U.S. interference with our laws & elections, here's a legit excuse: The venue will be a furnace. Been there 3x during Biden admin. www.brusselstimes.com/2121018/got-...
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Got an invite to the 'Freedom 250' party?
Forgive me. I’m trying to spoil a party. I'm referring here to Independence Day celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. If you're...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026
Teresa Ribera —EU Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just & Competitive Transition and EU Commissioner for Competition— responds to Trump threatening additional tariffs on EUropean countries using digital service taxes: “We Europeans will always defend our regulatory autonomy.” #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
We were honoured to host political scientist @casmudde.bsky.social at our monthly #DemocracyDrinks. We covered a lot of ground —from politics to populism to firewall to football— the audience would have loved to exchange for hours! Also, check this out: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/whats-wrong-...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to @kajsaollongren.bsky.social, Netherlands' former Minister of Defence, Minister of Interior and General Affairs Sec Gen, for becoming the next Secretary General of @eudiplomacy.bsky.social (EU's Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Nice move, @kajakallas.bsky.social #WeAreEU #WeAreNATO
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
Proud to represent @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social at today’s EU Commission high-level event on democracy. It’s the last event before taking a mini sabbatical & going offline. Have a great summer; see you on the other side. From 1 September I’m available for coffees & new opportunities 😊
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026
10 years ago today, I spent Brexit evening with some very concerned Brits. While the result of the referendum was not yet clear when I walked home, a thunderstorm seemed to capture the mood. If I remember well, @jameskanter.bsky.social posted the most impressive picture of the purple sky that night.
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026
As EU leaders meet at #EUCO today, pressure is mounting to roll back hard-won digital laws. EUrope must not weaken its digital rulebook to satisfy the interests of tech billionaires. This is the moment to defend democracy, competition, and digital sovereignty. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”
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Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026
Yay for Eurosky! 😍 #DefendDemocracy #TechSovereignty #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026
… and already running into a pretty bad security issue. “If someone told me this were a credential harvester and not a supposedly real project that the European Commission now runs on I'd believe them.” cc @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
W seems for Boomers who don't get tech? 🤑 for-profit 🔒 now closed source? 🕵️ may use your data to train AI 🦹‍♂️ dodgy tech bro on the Board 🪪 needs govt ID verification & face scanning 🤖 40 million existing ATP users are NOT verified Building EU Big Tech won't save democracy! h/t @elenarossini.com
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
Europe has to put an end to the live-testing of dangerous products on children. To the live-testing on adults and on democracies too. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺 #BigTech www.euractiv.com/opinion/euro...
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Europe needs 'safe social' to protect children online | Euractiv
Until a regulatory body declares them safe to use, Europe has to put an end to the live-testing of dangerous products on children
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026
Inviting Big Tech to your digital autonomy / tech sovereignty event is like inviting Big Oil to your climate policy event: a waste of time. (And that is the best case scenario; it is more likely their input is outright counter-productive.) PS: Check out Big Tech funding European think-tanks :-/
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026
Our second #TransatlanticDemocracyDialogue working dinner was U.S. Ambassador Gitenstein's first Brussels dinner. We co-hosted a second one with him later that year. His last Brussels' dinner would have been with us too. Sadly, times (and some democracies) have changed...
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026
Brussels diplomats are mourning dinners of the “like-minded” that used to be held at US ambassador’s residence. "The soirées were among the most useful diplomatic forums in town." Proud that AMB Gitenstein's first one (April 2022) was co-hosted by Defend Democracy! www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Left to right: Ukraine Ambassador Chentsov, me, US Ambassador Gitenstein (with a glass of water) just before the 'Transatlantic Democracy Dialogue' working dinner started.
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
Here is #DefendDemocracy 's June newsletter! 📰 Read this edition: crm.defenddemocracy.eu/civicrm/?civ... ✏️ Sign up for future editions: defenddemocracy.eu/newsletters/ ✅ Join our democracy defenders & stay tuned!
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 13/06/2026
Congratulations Ukraine and Moldova for starting EU membership talks! 🇺🇦🇲🇩🇪🇺 The first cluster of accession negotiations is about EU values and principles, like democracy, rule of law and human rights. #DefendDemocracy #WeAreEU🇪🇺 #NAFO🪖 www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
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EU countries approve starting membership talks with Ukraine, Moldova
The first cluster of accession negotiations with the two countries will be opened on Monday.
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
…that, and the petty jealousy of national capitals who only pay lip service to a strong and united EU, while they are quietly pulling it apart. Good piece by @davekeating.substack.com on the planned reform of the EU External Action Service.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Many thanks @casmudde.bsky.social for joining the monthly #DemocracyDrinks of @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social ! We covered a lot of ground - from politics to populism to firewall to football - the audience would have loved to exchange for hours! Enjoy the next leg of your trip: our native country!
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
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Helena Malikova @helenamalikova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Big Tech firms are amassing market power through investment strategies that bypass current rules for oversight and intervention. We interrogate this shadow market power in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social with co-authors @briannarock.bsky.social &Anna Marchese. prosyn.org/27KPJov?h=AE...
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Big Tech’s Shadow Market Power
Helena Malikova, Brianna Rock and Anna Marchese explain how Silicon Valley giants are heading off potential competition without drawing antitrust scrutiny.
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