Sophie in 't Veld @SophieintVeld@respublicae.eu

RT Sven op 1
Europarlementariër @SophieintVeld stopte na ruim dertig jaar D66 om over te stappen naar @VoltEuropa. Ondertussen maakt ze zich boos over de stilte in de Tweede Kamer rond de migratiedeal die met Tunesië werd gesloten. @TvanGroningen interviewt haar om 11.30ur op @NPORadio1. #WNL

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Putin’s most loyal friend @PM_ViktorOrban denying the sovereignty of Ukraine and campaigning for Trump. Note: he is not an autocrat of a far away country, but member of #EUCO with powers to take/block decisions affecting all Europeans. How much longer @eucopresident?
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Zoltan Kovacs: ❗️@PM_ViktorOrban: This war is no longer the war of the Ukrainians. Of course, they are the ones who are suffering the most, but we all know that Ukraine's sovereignty is practically gone. A country that has no financial revenue of its own, that cannot even run its own civilian…
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Watch the @EU_Commission, confronted with evidence of massive abuse of spyware for political purposes by government parties, washing its hands of any responsibility for safeguarding the rule of law in Europe. 👇
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Thanasis Koukakis: Η @Efkouts ρώτησε την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή για τις αποκαλύψεις του @insidestory_gr για τις παρακολουθήσεις πολιτικών και δημοσιογράφων με το Predator. Η Κομισιόν καταδίκασε και είπε πως παρακολουθεί την εξέλιξη της υπόθεσης.
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Weekend must-watch/read: brilliant Mario Draghi on the need for Treaty change and deeper EU integration. “Our future is entirely in our hands – and in our unity”. This is the vision and courage that marks true leadership. Stark contrast with #EUCO. Text: https://www.nber.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/15th%20Annual%20Martin%20Feldstein%20Lecture%2C%20Mario%20Draghi.pdf)
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NBER: Dr. Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank and former Prime Minister of Italy, presented the 15th Annual Martin Feldstein Lecture on "The Next Flight of the Bumblebee: The Path to Common Fiscal Policy in the Eurozone." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epV7tfhNzDc
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RT Barry Andrews MEP
Intellexa, which sells Predator spyware, was blacklisted by the US government on July 18.
Predator has been used to spy on journalists, activists and politicians and has its registered office in Foley Street, Dublin 1.
The next day, Intellexa’s Irish auditor resigned.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/BarryAndrewsMEP/status/1685229600748535808

Fresh details on #Predatorgate: the sms’ containing the spyware infection were sent to 92 phones through three Greek companies, with the use of prepaid cards. Unclear whether the names of the two buyers are real or fake. @EP_PegaInquiry @jeansouliotis @Kathimerini_gr
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Thanasis Koukakis: O @jeansouliotis αποκαλύπτει στην @Kathimerini_gr πως η αποστολή μηνυμάτων με Predator έγινε από 3 ελληνικές εταιρείες. Αυτές πληρώθηκαν με 3 προπληρωμένες κάρτες. Οι 2 προπληρωμένες κάρτες έχουν αγοραστεί από άτομα με στοιχεία «Κωνσταντίνος Κοσμίδης» και «Δημοσθένης Καλέλης».
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RT Kamala Harris: Women know what’s in their best interests. They don’t need to be told by their government.

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The #AbuDhabiSecrets https://eic.network/projects/abu-dhabi-secrets.html reveals how the UAE 🇦🇪 hired Swiss firm Alp Services for a smear &amp; disinfo campaign against ao politicians and activists in Europe, wrongfully connecting them to the Muslim Brotherhood. My questions to @EU_Commission @JosepBorrellF 👇

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Putin’s poodle
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Zoltan Kovacs: ❗️FM Szijjártó: Now we have a war in Europe, the position is that peace is not something that can be talked about at any time. So while there's a war outside Europe, we say stop it, now that there's a war in Europe, here they say "carry on".
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The Italian government stripping children of their rights as part of its homophobic crusade. So does @GiorgiaMeloni really feel she has made the world a better place with this cruel and cowardly measure?
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PinkNews: Italy has begun removing lesbian mums’ names from their children’s birth certificates, as part of the government’s crackdown on the rights of LGBTQ+ parents.
Read more: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/18/italy-lesbian-mums-removed-birth-certificates/ https://t.co/f84I3S8Y4F
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While the US has blacklisted #Intellexa and #Cytrox entities in Greece, Ireland, Hungary and North-Macedonia as risk to national security, Europe is still a comfy home to these vendors of mercenary #spyware. Will @EU_Commission finally take action? My questions 👇 https://t.co/rQ23NXtTZR

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/SophieintVeld/status/1682358169538904064

RT Eliza Triantafillou
💥Πολλά και σημαντικά τα ευρήματα από την πολύμηνη έρευνα της Αρχής Προστασίας Δεδομένων για το spyware #Predator.
📌Ίσως το πιο σημαντικό ότι δεν ήταν μόνο η @ArtemisSeaford που έπεσε θύμα παρακολούθησης με αξιοποίηση των στοιχείων του εμβολιασμού της. https://t.co/VeFlv8pvSk

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/e_triantafillou/status/1681990361508347906

RT Thanasis Koukakis
The Data Protection Authority of Greece revealed today that it has sent a detailed update to users of 92 phone numbers who received an SMS message with a Predator link. This means that it has already identified 92 Intellexa spyware targets. https://www.dpa.gr/el/enimerwtiko/deltia/energeies-tis-arhis-se-shesi-me-drastiriotites-egkatastasis-kai-hrisis https://t.co/3FezgD3g5t

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/nasoskook/status/1681996496156196869

Surveillance and Patriarchy are a diabolical combination
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Meredith Whittaker: This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.
If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less. https://t.co/HoSbq0pesq
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/SophieintVeld/status/1682315740307771395

Naast de inhoudelijke problemen die ik heb met de Tunesië-deal, ben ik van mening dat dit soort houtje-touwtje-deals met publiek geld de parlementaire democratie onder druk zet. Waarom? Omdat er nauwelijks verantwoording voor wordt gegeven. Mijn blog: http://open.substack.com/pub/sophieintv… https://t.co/BBA6qeN9Gs

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Today I commented on ‘Team Europe’s’ super-duper special mission to Tunisia:
Agreements with third countries are fine, but this deal does not align with our value, it will not be effective, and it is not concluded in a transparent and democratic way. https://t.co/f4Fudva4Rq

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Re Saied is not a good partner. He is an authoritarian ruler who has actually boosted the number of departures from his country. https://t.co/f5h14ScaLK

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Re In short, we are doing a deal with a dictator who is cruel and unreliable. As the negotiations went on, he was pushing people back into the desert. The European Commission cannot prevent push-backs within the EU; how will it do so with a third country?
It’s a joke; a bad one. https://t.co/1FS4XgZj4u

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Re On top of that, we are giving this unreliable partner budget support, and we will be paying off a chunk of Tunisia’s debt. That is money for him, not the Tunisian people. All the while we are undercutting the IMF. https://t.co/WKemhE2wec

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Re Giving money to the Saied regime, is like investing in a failing project. It’s plain stupid. The ‘funny’ thing is that pumping money in this failing regime, will probably increase the will in people to leave. https://t.co/LoqXeMCBNl

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