Alice Stollmeyer
@stollmeyer.bsky.social
Founder & Executive Director of https://DefendDemocracy.EU/
Busy defending democracy against hybrid & technological threats.
🏆Politico’s #Power40
Support #DefendDemocracy: https://defenddemocracy.eu/get-involved/donate
Busy defending democracy against hybrid & technological threats.
🏆Politico’s #Power40
Support #DefendDemocracy: https://defenddemocracy.eu/get-involved/donate
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Alice Stollmeyer
@stollmeyer.bsky.social
· Apr 16
#HandsOFF our democracy — Defend Democracy
Speech by Defend Democracy at the 'Hands Off Our Democracy' protest in front of the European Commission, urging to them defend our democracy and our Europe.
defenddemocracy.eu
"Since at least 2014 we are watching a coup against democracy unfold. It is the combination of hybrid warfare, rise of the far-right, and tech coup.
How long can Europe hold the line if we don’t take defending our democracy as serious as defending our territory?"
defenddemocracy.eu/handsoff-our...
How long can Europe hold the line if we don’t take defending our democracy as serious as defending our territory?"
defenddemocracy.eu/handsoff-our...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Proud to join Netherlands' citizens in donating to heat generators and power stations for Ukraine's frontline.
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Naar dit soort plekken gaat, heel concreet, je geld als je doneert voor generatoren aan het front. Deze man studeerde ooit in Utrecht. Nu vecht hij voor zijn land. Als je iets kunt missen, de generator is er binnen een week. We hebben al 3 ton! Het is belasting aftrekbaar (ANBI)
vvodiel.nl/doneren/
vvodiel.nl/doneren/
February 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Proud to join Netherlands' citizens in donating to heat generators and power stations for Ukraine's frontline.
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.
Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.
Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓
Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.
Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓
February 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.
Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.
Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓
Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.
Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
www.state.gov
February 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Zelenskyy throwing shade at Hungary’s pro-Putin PM Viktor Orban in his #MSC speech
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Zelenskyy throwing shade at Hungary’s pro-Putin PM Viktor Orban in his #MSC speech
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
16 US Ambassadors to NATO & Supreme Allied Commanders in a joint statement:
"NATO is vital to U.S. national security. It is not an act of American generosity. It is a strategic bargain.. at a fraction of the cost of going it alone."
#MSC2026 #StrongerTogether
www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...
"NATO is vital to U.S. national security. It is not an act of American generosity. It is a strategic bargain.. at a fraction of the cost of going it alone."
#MSC2026 #StrongerTogether
www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...
NATO is Vital to U.S. National Security
A joint statement by 16 U.S. Ambassadors to NATO and Supreme Allied Commanders, arguing "NATO is not an act of American generosity. It is a strategic bargain that ensures the United States remains the...
www.belfercenter.org
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 AM
16 US Ambassadors to NATO & Supreme Allied Commanders in a joint statement:
"NATO is vital to U.S. national security. It is not an act of American generosity. It is a strategic bargain.. at a fraction of the cost of going it alone."
#MSC2026 #StrongerTogether
www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...
"NATO is vital to U.S. national security. It is not an act of American generosity. It is a strategic bargain.. at a fraction of the cost of going it alone."
#MSC2026 #StrongerTogether
www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...
Why invite Big Tech lobbyists on panels when all they do is parrot the same bullshit propaganda? 🤮
#MSC2026
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#MSC2026
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
February 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Why invite Big Tech lobbyists on panels when all they do is parrot the same bullshit propaganda? 🤮
#MSC2026
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#MSC2026
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Sunlight illuminating the European Parliament in Brussels this morning…
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Sunlight illuminating the European Parliament in Brussels this morning…
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Internal market, energy and economic policies are subject to the ordinary legislative procedure. #EUCO is explicitly barred from legislative activity. With the flimsy pretext of an industry "emergency" EUCO is vastly overstepping its powers in Alden Biesen. EU Treaties reduced to a pick&choose menu
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Internal market, energy and economic policies are subject to the ordinary legislative procedure. #EUCO is explicitly barred from legislative activity. With the flimsy pretext of an industry "emergency" EUCO is vastly overstepping its powers in Alden Biesen. EU Treaties reduced to a pick&choose menu
Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
"Even EU Commission estimates that the cost savings from its regulatory simplifications — the so-called Omnibuses — will amount to just €12 billion per year, or around 0.07% of EU GDP. That isn’t a growth strategy, it’s a rounding error."
#EUCO
"Even EU Commission estimates that the cost savings from its regulatory simplifications — the so-called Omnibuses — will amount to just €12 billion per year, or around 0.07% of EU GDP. That isn’t a growth strategy, it’s a rounding error."
#EUCO
EU leaders face a clear choice:
Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.
Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.
Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.
www.politico.eu
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
"Even EU Commission estimates that the cost savings from its regulatory simplifications — the so-called Omnibuses — will amount to just €12 billion per year, or around 0.07% of EU GDP. That isn’t a growth strategy, it’s a rounding error."
#EUCO
"Even EU Commission estimates that the cost savings from its regulatory simplifications — the so-called Omnibuses — will amount to just €12 billion per year, or around 0.07% of EU GDP. That isn’t a growth strategy, it’s a rounding error."
#EUCO
Proud to join Netherlands' citizens in donating to heat generators and power stations for Ukraine's frontline.
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Naar dit soort plekken gaat, heel concreet, je geld als je doneert voor generatoren aan het front. Deze man studeerde ooit in Utrecht. Nu vecht hij voor zijn land. Als je iets kunt missen, de generator is er binnen een week. We hebben al 3 ton! Het is belasting aftrekbaar (ANBI)
vvodiel.nl/doneren/
vvodiel.nl/doneren/
February 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Proud to join Netherlands' citizens in donating to heat generators and power stations for Ukraine's frontline.
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Modern warfare is not about large armies, but about small units of engineers mastering high tech in tiny, mobile places.
#SlavaUkraïni🇺🇦 #NAFO🪖 #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
EU leaders face a clear choice:
Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.
Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.
Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.
www.politico.eu
February 11, 2026 at 8:46 AM
EU leaders face a clear choice:
Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.
Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.
Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Further working on my analytical tool for EU-Analytics. If you look at the (just 11) main votes in the European Parliament on migration in this legislature, the EPP now votes more often together with the ECR, PfE and ESN than with its 'von der Leyen' platform partners:
February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Further working on my analytical tool for EU-Analytics. If you look at the (just 11) main votes in the European Parliament on migration in this legislature, the EPP now votes more often together with the ECR, PfE and ESN than with its 'von der Leyen' platform partners:
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
I had missed this in the FT from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social, on digital sovereignty, the European digital stack, dependence on US tech—and the example of Solvinity, the cloud company that hosts all Dutch citizens’ digital IDs, acquired by US company Kyndryl last November.
Tech sovereignty is an inherent right of democratic states, not a subscription model provided at the mercy of foreign entities.
Decisions about true value of sovereignty will determine whether countries retain meaningful autonomy or become clients of foreign imperialism.
www.ft.com/content/8fc2...
Decisions about true value of sovereignty will determine whether countries retain meaningful autonomy or become clients of foreign imperialism.
www.ft.com/content/8fc2...
Tech sovereignty should not be a subscription model
Concern about the loss of jurisdiction and agency to US companies is becoming more pressing for Europeans
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:46 AM
I had missed this in the FT from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social, on digital sovereignty, the European digital stack, dependence on US tech—and the example of Solvinity, the cloud company that hosts all Dutch citizens’ digital IDs, acquired by US company Kyndryl last November.
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
📍Today, the EC informed Meta that blocking third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission notifies Meta of possible interim measures to reverse exclusion of third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp
The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Meta, setting out its preliminary view that Meta breached EU antitrust rules by excluding third party Artificial Intelligence (‘AI\') assi...
ec.europa.eu
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 AM
📍Today, the EC informed Meta that blocking third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
It’s time to stop worshipping Mario Draghi as the leading advocate of European technological sovereignty: his conclusions are deeply flawed.
techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...
techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...
It’s Time to Stop Worshipping Mario Draghi | TechPolicy.Press
Mario Draghi is steering Europe toward tech sovereignty. But his vision for industrial reform may repeat old and costly mistakes, writes William Burns.
techpolicy.press
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It’s time to stop worshipping Mario Draghi as the leading advocate of European technological sovereignty: his conclusions are deeply flawed.
techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...
techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles.
We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive.
Today, we present our 20th sanctions package.
Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy.
And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)
We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive.
Today, we present our 20th sanctions package.
Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy.
And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)
February 6, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles.
We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive.
Today, we present our 20th sanctions package.
Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy.
And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)
We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive.
Today, we present our 20th sanctions package.
Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy.
And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Zou er niet gewoon zo'n ouderwetse, grootse, avondvullende tv-actie moeten komen voor 'Help Oekraïne deze winter door'?
Goed idee, NPO?
vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...
Goed idee, NPO?
vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...
Winteractie Oekraïne - VVO Diel
vvodiel.nl
February 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Zou er niet gewoon zo'n ouderwetse, grootse, avondvullende tv-actie moeten komen voor 'Help Oekraïne deze winter door'?
Goed idee, NPO?
vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...
Goed idee, NPO?
vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
Mooi interview over @defenddemocracy.bsky.social !
Dit voorjaar geef ik voor WeerbaarNL een Brusselse Masterclass ‘Internationale lessen resilience’, voor de weerbaarheid en veerkracht van Nederland.
Zin in!
weerbaarnl.nl/nieuws/32043...
Dit voorjaar geef ik voor WeerbaarNL een Brusselse Masterclass ‘Internationale lessen resilience’, voor de weerbaarheid en veerkracht van Nederland.
Zin in!
weerbaarnl.nl/nieuws/32043...
February 2, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Mooi interview over @defenddemocracy.bsky.social !
Dit voorjaar geef ik voor WeerbaarNL een Brusselse Masterclass ‘Internationale lessen resilience’, voor de weerbaarheid en veerkracht van Nederland.
Zin in!
weerbaarnl.nl/nieuws/32043...
Dit voorjaar geef ik voor WeerbaarNL een Brusselse Masterclass ‘Internationale lessen resilience’, voor de weerbaarheid en veerkracht van Nederland.
Zin in!
weerbaarnl.nl/nieuws/32043...
BREAKING: TikTok's addictive design breaches EU law.
(Features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, highly personalised recommender system.)
We should be in control of our own time & attention, not Big Tech, be it 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
(Features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, highly personalised recommender system.)
We should be in control of our own time & attention, not Big Tech, be it 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
BREAKING: TikTok's addictive design breaches EU law.
(Features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, highly personalised recommender system.)
We should be in control of our own time & attention, not Big Tech, be it 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
(Features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, highly personalised recommender system.)
We should be in control of our own time & attention, not Big Tech, be it 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Een dictatuur van de meerderheid —zonder rechtsstatelijk systeem— is geen democratie.
"Politiek is verworden tot mediacratie, een permanente campagne waarin de peiling van morgen zwaarder weegt dan het landsbelang op lange termijn."
#DefendDemocracy #formatie
www.overheidvannu.nl/actueel/nieu...
"Politiek is verworden tot mediacratie, een permanente campagne waarin de peiling van morgen zwaarder weegt dan het landsbelang op lange termijn."
#DefendDemocracy #formatie
www.overheidvannu.nl/actueel/nieu...
February 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Een dictatuur van de meerderheid —zonder rechtsstatelijk systeem— is geen democratie.
"Politiek is verworden tot mediacratie, een permanente campagne waarin de peiling van morgen zwaarder weegt dan het landsbelang op lange termijn."
#DefendDemocracy #formatie
www.overheidvannu.nl/actueel/nieu...
"Politiek is verworden tot mediacratie, een permanente campagne waarin de peiling van morgen zwaarder weegt dan het landsbelang op lange termijn."
#DefendDemocracy #formatie
www.overheidvannu.nl/actueel/nieu...
February 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
#WorldFactBook
#DefendDemocracy
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
#WorldFactBook
#DefendDemocracy
February 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
#WorldFactBook
#DefendDemocracy
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
#WorldFactBook
#DefendDemocracy
Kicking off the EU Tech Stars Summit!
"Technology has become a weapon in the hands of autocrats.
Fortunately, we have our own alternatives in Europe."*
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#FoShure😎
* www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/e...
"Technology has become a weapon in the hands of autocrats.
Fortunately, we have our own alternatives in Europe."*
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#FoShure😎
* www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/e...
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Kicking off the EU Tech Stars Summit!
"Technology has become a weapon in the hands of autocrats.
Fortunately, we have our own alternatives in Europe."*
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#FoShure😎
* www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/e...
"Technology has become a weapon in the hands of autocrats.
Fortunately, we have our own alternatives in Europe."*
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#FoShure😎
* www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/e...
Reposted by Alice Stollmeyer
PM Tusk on Epstein: it is very likely that this was a planned operation by the Russian KGB.
More and more leads are pointing to suspicions that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was co-organized by Russian intelligence services.
More and more leads are pointing to suspicions that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was co-organized by Russian intelligence services.
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
PM Tusk on Epstein: it is very likely that this was a planned operation by the Russian KGB.
More and more leads are pointing to suspicions that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was co-organized by Russian intelligence services.
More and more leads are pointing to suspicions that this unprecedented pedophilia scandal was co-organized by Russian intelligence services.