Jules Maaten
@julesmaaten.bsky.social
Liberal, European, Rotterdam, Brussel, Berlin
Seminar at the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Gummersbach. Three days discussing the Liberal response to right-populism. Also the last ever seminar here, at what had become the centre of global Liberalism. What remains are the many inspiring memories. Thank you!
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Seminar at the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Gummersbach. Three days discussing the Liberal response to right-populism. Also the last ever seminar here, at what had become the centre of global Liberalism. What remains are the many inspiring memories. Thank you!
Western European liberals can learn much from their East European friends about safeguarding liberal democratic institutions. The merger of the two European FNF regions is an exciting opportunity. I am thrilled to be in Sofia at the regional meeting of my colleagues in southeast and east Europe.
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Western European liberals can learn much from their East European friends about safeguarding liberal democratic institutions. The merger of the two European FNF regions is an exciting opportunity. I am thrilled to be in Sofia at the regional meeting of my colleagues in southeast and east Europe.
Five generations of Liberal International secgens meeting up 😃 Great to see Federica Sabbati, Jasper Veen, Emil Kirjas and incumbent William Townsend at the Liberal International event at De Witte in Den Haag.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Five generations of Liberal International secgens meeting up 😃 Great to see Federica Sabbati, Jasper Veen, Emil Kirjas and incumbent William Townsend at the Liberal International event at De Witte in Den Haag.
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We condemn Russia's interference in Moldovan democracy, including the use of disinformation, cyber-attacks and illicit financing.
The 🇲🇩 people should be free to choose their own path without outside interference!
@valeriehayer.bsky.social & Dan Barna
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2025-09...
The 🇲🇩 people should be free to choose their own path without outside interference!
@valeriehayer.bsky.social & Dan Barna
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2025-09...
Russia’s interference in Moldova’s democracy… - Renew Europe
Ahead of this weekend’s pivotal elections in Moldova, Renew Europe condemns ongoing attempts by Russia to interfere in the election and reaffirms its…
www.reneweuropegroup.eu
September 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We condemn Russia's interference in Moldovan democracy, including the use of disinformation, cyber-attacks and illicit financing.
The 🇲🇩 people should be free to choose their own path without outside interference!
@valeriehayer.bsky.social & Dan Barna
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2025-09...
The 🇲🇩 people should be free to choose their own path without outside interference!
@valeriehayer.bsky.social & Dan Barna
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2025-09...
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Peilingen bepaalden de vorige verkiezingen mede de uitslag. Daar hebben we niks van geleerd, want woensdag werd wederom een peiling live "onthuld" in 'n talkshow.
Peilingen als show-element, alsof we naar de Champions League-loting kijken.
Nieuwe column en 🧵
www.ewmagazine.nl/politiek/opi...
Peilingen als show-element, alsof we naar de Champions League-loting kijken.
Nieuwe column en 🧵
www.ewmagazine.nl/politiek/opi...
Stop met peilingen als showelement
Peilingen maken van verkiezingen een mediaspektakel. Waarom talkshows en journalisten hiermee moeten stoppen om de democratie te beschermen.
www.ewmagazine.nl
September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Peilingen bepaalden de vorige verkiezingen mede de uitslag. Daar hebben we niks van geleerd, want woensdag werd wederom een peiling live "onthuld" in 'n talkshow.
Peilingen als show-element, alsof we naar de Champions League-loting kijken.
Nieuwe column en 🧵
www.ewmagazine.nl/politiek/opi...
Peilingen als show-element, alsof we naar de Champions League-loting kijken.
Nieuwe column en 🧵
www.ewmagazine.nl/politiek/opi...
What do you think a free and tolerant Europe should look like in 25 years time? FNF Europe @fnfeurope.bsky.social is looking for your ideas.
www.freiheit.org/europe/persp...
www.freiheit.org/europe/persp...
Europe 2050: Perspectives for Europe 2050
What will a liberal Europe look like in 2050? How can we shape our continent’s future to reflect the values of freedom, democracy, and prosperity?
www.freiheit.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What do you think a free and tolerant Europe should look like in 25 years time? FNF Europe @fnfeurope.bsky.social is looking for your ideas.
www.freiheit.org/europe/persp...
www.freiheit.org/europe/persp...
The European area of free movement, organised in the Schengen Treaty forty years ago, is more important than ever in today's increasingly fragmented world, both for our citizens and for our economy.
www.freiheit.org/europe/40-ye...
www.freiheit.org/europe/40-ye...
40 Years Schengen Treaty: 40 Years Schengen Treaty
40 years ago, the Schengen Agreement was signed by Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. A review by Jules Maaten.
www.freiheit.org
June 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The European area of free movement, organised in the Schengen Treaty forty years ago, is more important than ever in today's increasingly fragmented world, both for our citizens and for our economy.
www.freiheit.org/europe/40-ye...
www.freiheit.org/europe/40-ye...
The Netherlands — a government led by a party that made migration central to its platform couldn’t agree with itself on migration. A train crash in slow motion.
www.freiheit.org/europe/dutch...
www.freiheit.org/europe/dutch...
Netherlands: Netherlands: Government Falls Over Internal Migration Row
Less than a year after its formation, the Dutch government collapsed on Tuesday after far-right party leader Geert Wilders withdrew his party PVV and all of his ministers from the ruling coalition. Th...
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June 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Netherlands — a government led by a party that made migration central to its platform couldn’t agree with itself on migration. A train crash in slow motion.
www.freiheit.org/europe/dutch...
www.freiheit.org/europe/dutch...
Remarkable how well the Liberal Democrats are doing in the UK - the only serious alternative to Farage’s Reform and overtaking the Tories in the latest polls. Meeting with Europe Spokesman James MacCleary MP and looking forward to FNF Europe’s further UK-EU Liberal Dialogues.
June 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Remarkable how well the Liberal Democrats are doing in the UK - the only serious alternative to Farage’s Reform and overtaking the Tories in the latest polls. Meeting with Europe Spokesman James MacCleary MP and looking forward to FNF Europe’s further UK-EU Liberal Dialogues.
The results of the recent EU-UK summit in London offers a glimpse of hope. But more than five years after the UK left the bloc, is a glimpse of hope enough for Europe? www.freiheit.org/europe/how-b...
Brexit: EU-UK relations
How can two separated partners find to one another after a break-up? How much time do they need? Where do they start? And might external factors accelerate the process of regaining trust? When looking...
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May 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The results of the recent EU-UK summit in London offers a glimpse of hope. But more than five years after the UK left the bloc, is a glimpse of hope enough for Europe? www.freiheit.org/europe/how-b...
3 days in Berlin/Potsdam with our colleagues from Germany and abroad to assess how at these testing times we best promote international security, global trade and liberal-democratic institutions and revitalise liberalism. Challenge accepted, opportunities aplenty!
@fnfreiheit.bsky.social
@fnfreiheit.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
3 days in Berlin/Potsdam with our colleagues from Germany and abroad to assess how at these testing times we best promote international security, global trade and liberal-democratic institutions and revitalise liberalism. Challenge accepted, opportunities aplenty!
@fnfreiheit.bsky.social
@fnfreiheit.bsky.social
It is not too late to get our act together and for Europe to seriously compete with Chinese electric vehicles, but we have to be fast - particularly in promoting a far higher level of innovation and of cooperation in the European car industry. This was the message of Sam Goodman today.
April 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It is not too late to get our act together and for Europe to seriously compete with Chinese electric vehicles, but we have to be fast - particularly in promoting a far higher level of innovation and of cooperation in the European car industry. This was the message of Sam Goodman today.
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🕊️ Am 9. April 1945 wurde Hans von #Dohnanyi im KZ-Lager Sachsenhausen ermordet. Er zeigt, dass es auch auf bürgerlich-liberaler Grundlage viele Möglichkeiten des Widerstandes gegen den Nationalsozialismus gab.
www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
April 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🕊️ Am 9. April 1945 wurde Hans von #Dohnanyi im KZ-Lager Sachsenhausen ermordet. Er zeigt, dass es auch auf bürgerlich-liberaler Grundlage viele Möglichkeiten des Widerstandes gegen den Nationalsozialismus gab.
www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
More democratic backsliding threatens Hungary, the banning of Budapest Pride and a foreign agents type law just being an example.
This affects the democratic fabric of the entire values based EU, it may not continue unopposed.
FNF Europe in Budapest, with the brave MPs of Momentum in Parliament.
This affects the democratic fabric of the entire values based EU, it may not continue unopposed.
FNF Europe in Budapest, with the brave MPs of Momentum in Parliament.
March 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
More democratic backsliding threatens Hungary, the banning of Budapest Pride and a foreign agents type law just being an example.
This affects the democratic fabric of the entire values based EU, it may not continue unopposed.
FNF Europe in Budapest, with the brave MPs of Momentum in Parliament.
This affects the democratic fabric of the entire values based EU, it may not continue unopposed.
FNF Europe in Budapest, with the brave MPs of Momentum in Parliament.
We are fortunate to be part of a movement that stands against the breakdown of the liberal world order, of liberal-democracy and of fundamental freedoms. We are Europeans for the future of freedom. And we shout it from the rooftops at the FNF Europe regional meeting in Budapest.
March 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
We are fortunate to be part of a movement that stands against the breakdown of the liberal world order, of liberal-democracy and of fundamental freedoms. We are Europeans for the future of freedom. And we shout it from the rooftops at the FNF Europe regional meeting in Budapest.
Discussion on Foreign Interference, organised by FNF Europe in Berlin. Focussing on Russian and Chinese interference in European democratic processes, and inevitably on Musk and the MAGA-crowd. Europe must not be intimidated by a false plea for freedom of expression that in practice is anything but.
February 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Discussion on Foreign Interference, organised by FNF Europe in Berlin. Focussing on Russian and Chinese interference in European democratic processes, and inevitably on Musk and the MAGA-crowd. Europe must not be intimidated by a false plea for freedom of expression that in practice is anything but.
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Congratulations to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, this year's winners for the #SakharovPrize!
We stand with the Venezuelan opposition! 🇻🇪🇪🇺
The repression of the opposition in Venezuela must stop and the election results must be transparent & respected.
We stand with the Venezuelan opposition! 🇻🇪🇪🇺
The repression of the opposition in Venezuela must stop and the election results must be transparent & respected.
December 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Congratulations to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, this year's winners for the #SakharovPrize!
We stand with the Venezuelan opposition! 🇻🇪🇪🇺
The repression of the opposition in Venezuela must stop and the election results must be transparent & respected.
We stand with the Venezuelan opposition! 🇻🇪🇪🇺
The repression of the opposition in Venezuela must stop and the election results must be transparent & respected.
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Unwavering support for President
Salome Zourabichvili in defending Georgia's European future! 🇬🇪🇪🇺
We call for EU sanctions against officials in the illegitimate regime that's corrupting Georgia's future.
Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
Salome Zourabichvili in defending Georgia's European future! 🇬🇪🇪🇺
We call for EU sanctions against officials in the illegitimate regime that's corrupting Georgia's future.
Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
Unwavering Support for President Salome Zourabichvili… - Renew Europe
The Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament warmly welcomes the presence of Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili in Strasbourg today. President…
www.reneweuropegroup.eu
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Unwavering support for President
Salome Zourabichvili in defending Georgia's European future! 🇬🇪🇪🇺
We call for EU sanctions against officials in the illegitimate regime that's corrupting Georgia's future.
Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
Salome Zourabichvili in defending Georgia's European future! 🇬🇪🇪🇺
We call for EU sanctions against officials in the illegitimate regime that's corrupting Georgia's future.
Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
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#Mazan trial: all defendants found guilty, no acquittals!
EU Member States continue to fail us with empty promises to end #violenceagainstwomen. We need action at EU level now!
"It's not for us to be ashamed - it's for them." - Gisèle Pelicot
EU Member States continue to fail us with empty promises to end #violenceagainstwomen. We need action at EU level now!
"It's not for us to be ashamed - it's for them." - Gisèle Pelicot
December 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
#Mazan trial: all defendants found guilty, no acquittals!
EU Member States continue to fail us with empty promises to end #violenceagainstwomen. We need action at EU level now!
"It's not for us to be ashamed - it's for them." - Gisèle Pelicot
EU Member States continue to fail us with empty promises to end #violenceagainstwomen. We need action at EU level now!
"It's not for us to be ashamed - it's for them." - Gisèle Pelicot
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Het bewijs dat de liberale democratie onder druk staat, ligt inmiddels voor het oprapen. Daarover kunnen we niet langer naïef zijn. Anders gaan we in het komende jaar ontdekken hoe kwetsbaar de democratie werkelijk is, schrijft @thiessenmark.bsky.social.
Vindt u dat hij een punt heeft?
Vindt u dat hij een punt heeft?
December 10, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Het bewijs dat de liberale democratie onder druk staat, ligt inmiddels voor het oprapen. Daarover kunnen we niet langer naïef zijn. Anders gaan we in het komende jaar ontdekken hoe kwetsbaar de democratie werkelijk is, schrijft @thiessenmark.bsky.social.
Vindt u dat hij een punt heeft?
Vindt u dat hij een punt heeft?
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🚨Breaking News! Romania & Bulgaria will finally take their rightful place in #Schengen.
🇷🇴 & 🇧🇬 accession to the Schengen Area is a a good day for Europe!
🗞️Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
🇷🇴 & 🇧🇬 accession to the Schengen Area is a a good day for Europe!
🗞️Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
December 12, 2024 at 9:55 AM
🚨Breaking News! Romania & Bulgaria will finally take their rightful place in #Schengen.
🇷🇴 & 🇧🇬 accession to the Schengen Area is a a good day for Europe!
🗞️Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
🇷🇴 & 🇧🇬 accession to the Schengen Area is a a good day for Europe!
🗞️Read more 👇
www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-12...
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Gaat het hier echt zo veel aardiger en fijner aan toe dan op X?
Ik kan de laatste dagen mijn tijdlijn niet openen of ik zie Bsky'ers politici - met name rechtse - verrot schelden omdat ze het niet met hen eens zijn.
Ik kan de laatste dagen mijn tijdlijn niet openen of ik zie Bsky'ers politici - met name rechtse - verrot schelden omdat ze het niet met hen eens zijn.
December 5, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Gaat het hier echt zo veel aardiger en fijner aan toe dan op X?
Ik kan de laatste dagen mijn tijdlijn niet openen of ik zie Bsky'ers politici - met name rechtse - verrot schelden omdat ze het niet met hen eens zijn.
Ik kan de laatste dagen mijn tijdlijn niet openen of ik zie Bsky'ers politici - met name rechtse - verrot schelden omdat ze het niet met hen eens zijn.