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Europe must tackle the major challenges of the future together. I am working for a Europe that is more sustainable, more supportive, fairer and more responsible towards the world and its citizens. This also applies to digitisation. The agenda for most digital issues is set in Brussels and I am fighting for Europe to assert its democratic values in technological terms too.
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He did it again: Manfred Weber’s EPP votes with the far right and blocks the new EU climate law
Dear friends! They’ve done it again. The EPP Group, the political group led by Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) and Manfred Weber (CSU), is continuing to expand its alliance with the far right in the European Parliament. Today, the EPP voted with the far right to prevent the new EU climate law from being passed […]
Why Pride in Budapest could shake Orban
Dear friends! It was truly incredible. On Saturday, I joined 70 other MEPs from all democratic political groups at Pride in Budapest, Hungary. In response to Orban’s ban, Budapest’s Green mayor Gergely Karacsony organised Pride as a municipal event, openly challenging the autocratic regime. Well over 200,000 people from Hungary and across Europe turned up […]
New study: How the men‘s internet is censoring women‘s health
Dear friends! A new and groundbreaking study by the Centre for Intimacy Justice shows how Amazon, Google, Meta and Tiktok suppress content related to women‘s health. Take Meta, for example, which rejects ads about breast cancer prevention, but accepts explicit advertising for male sexual performance. A staggering 63% of the reproductive and sexual health groups […]
Success on the road to technological independence from Musk, Meta & Microsoft
My long read for the long weekend Dear friends! Past week, we took the first step towards independence from the big digital corporations in the US and China. Their platforms and services, from social media to clouds, are the digital backbone of Europe. These are companies that use the US government to threaten Europe in […]
After Poland, Portugal and Romania: Change the algorithms now!
Take part in the public hearing on the EU Democracy Shield here and demand a change to the algorithms! Dear friends Only at first glance do the results of the European Super Election Sunday seem like a relief. Even though pro-European parties and candidates are in the lead, far-right parties are stronger than ever in […]
Zuckerberg meets Virkunnen – Facebook class action lawsuit underway in Germany
Join the Facebook class action lawsuit now (German residents only)! Dear friends! This meeting is a big one. Today, Henna Virkunnen, Vice-President of the European Commission for Technical Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, meets wth Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, in the United States. After the €200 million fine for Facebook’s anti-competitive practices in April, the […]
Independence ≠ Pandering
Dear friends! On this Europe Day, I am writing to you with joy in my heart about this day. 75 years after the Schuman Declaration and 80 years after the end of the war, we in Europe can be proud of what we have achieved. But this day is also a mission. Because the powers […]
EU countries are harming European competitiveness by bowing to Trump on global minimum tax
Dear friends! If I didn’t believe so strongly in Europe, I would be despairing: just last week, the EU Commission finally imposed penalties on US corporations Apple and Meta for distorting competition, only to do exactly the opposite this week and throw the European economy under the bus. What happened? Today it was announced that […]
Europe Calling “Free opinions? – How X and TikTok influenced the German federal election”
Register here! Dear friends! Free and fair elections require not only the ballot box but also the space in which people form their voting decisions beforehand. In view of X-owner Musk’s support for the AfD and Zuckerberg and TikTok’s cosy relationship with Trump, one question is becoming increasingly important: Is the way information reaches people […]
Turkey: Elon Musk is restricting freedom of expression
Dear friends, Elon Musk is once again showing his true colours. He doesn’t care about the freedom of expression, but only about the suppression of democratic voices. In Turkey, he has blocked over 300 accounts used by the country’s democratic opposition to protest the unlawful arrest of presidential candidate İmamoğlu. Musk is working with dictator […]
Behind the deliberate infection of ChatGPT & Co. with Russian propaganda
Dear friends, This report from the disinformation experts at ‘NewsGuard’ is really something. If you have 10 minutes today, read this report here. The study examined 10 AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Copilot to see if they spread disinformation from the pro-Kremlin propaganda network ‘Pravda’. The result: depending on the chatbot, 6% to over […]
Trump/Musk: These words are now forbidden
Dear friends! Woman. Black. LGBT. Climate. Bias. Equality. These words are now forbidden for many scientists in the USA. White and Man, on the other hand, are not on the list of forbidden words that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is now scanning all funding applications and publications for. You can find the entire list […]
