David Nosák

🇪🇺 @EPPGroup's policy advisor to @EP_Justice | ex #digital policy officer @cdteu | alumnus @cems_alliance | #dikyzemuzem | electric unicyclist | private views

[EPP Group @EPPGroup]

🎙️ A new podcast episode is out now!

With: @MikaAaltola and @OndrejKolar6

Tune in to "EU Decoded"🔗https://t.co/NIIOODy4DB

[EPP Group @EPPGroup]

📢 Press Conference: Draft EUDS Report on Findings and Recommendations

📆23.06.2026 | 11:15-11:45
🗣️Speaker: @tomastobe MEP, Parliament’s rapporteur for the European Democracy Shield
📍EP, Brussels - Anna Politkovskaya Room PHS 0A50

🔴 Streaming: https://t.co/blRW99GFQK
🔗 More info: https://t.co/Z6YpynDfXm

[EPP Group @EPPGroup]

@tomastobe “We must be bold in our commitment to defending democracy against foreign interference. The European Parliament calls for a stronger European Democracy Shield,” says EUDS rapporteur @tomastobe MEP ahead of the Committee vote.

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[EPP Group @EPPGroup]

📢 Media Invitation: In-person press briefing and Q&A session on the upcoming Committee vote on the European Democracy Shield report with Parliament’s rapporteur MEP @tomastobe

📅 Wednesday 10 June | 14:30 CEST, on-the-record

📍 European Parliament in Brussels - room details will be shared with registered participants. Registration by 9 June 2026 eob: https://t.co/EtyNu12Alj

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[Sweden in EU @SwedeninEU]

Letter from 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇨🇿 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 proposing new measures to limit EU tourist visas for Russian citizens 👇

[Jorge Liboreiro @JorgeLiboreiro]

More news: Hungary joins the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and rejoins the Erasmus programme as of the next school year.

[EPP Group @EPPGroup]

https://t.co/wYjoSUzH83

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

I welcome the political agreement on our Digital Omnibus on AI.

This provides a simple, innovation-friendly environment for our European AI ecosystem to grow.

At the same time, we are strengthening protections for our citizens.

For safe and simple AI governance in Europe.

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Follow for more on Russia's politics, the war, and what the regime is working hardest to hide.

And subscribe on Substack (it's free): https://t.co/JRypYJPV6S

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[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

When a dictator feels the need to hide half of his decisions, it's obvious that even he knows nothing he is doing is going to improve people's lives. This curtain of secrecy is designed to conceal the fragility of the regime's position.

[10/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Most governments classify information to protect it from foreign rivals. Putin's classifications protect the regime from its own citizens. Their function is to cover for incompetence and systemic failure at home.

[9/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

The peak of the absurdity: secret laws. There are now laws people are bound by but cannot know. Under Secret Decree 605, the FSB can shut down any communications that violate classified rules. You can be arrested for breaking a law you aren't allowed to read.

[8/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Putin has created an echo chamber so secure that he is losing touch with reality. Generals report "victories" in places like Kupiansk to keep the boss happy, but the situation on the ground is the opposite. He is a leader making decisions based on obsolete or false information.

[7/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Not all of the secrecy hides the war's impact. Much of it protects the elites. Real estate records have been classified, officials' income declarations abolished, and photos of MPs in the State Duma banned outright.

[6/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

By last year, over 300 datasets were concealed from the public eye. More than 30% of the national budget is now "closed" spending. We no longer know where the money is going, or how many people are actually dying at the front.

[5/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

➜ Economic Decay: Statistics on oil, gas, and trade — the lifeblood of Putin's war machine — have been scrubbed.

➜ Data on military deaths and casualties is classified to keep the human cost of the invasion out of the public record.

[4/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

What gets classified tells you what they fear. Examples:

➜ The "Cannibal Battalions": Secret decrees likely mask the mass pardoning of murderers and rapists sent to the front. The state calls them heroes but keeps the paperwork hidden because the public would revolt.

[3/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

There have been no precedents to this blackout in modern history. In 2023, Putin set a record: 49.5% of presidential decrees were secret. Even last year, almost 45% of his orders remain hidden from public view. Half of the Russian government's actions are now officially "invisible."

[2/11]

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Putin is scared.

His "fortress" is cracking and half his decrees are now secret — so Russians can't see how badly the regime is failing.

Here's what he's hiding 👇 [1/11]

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.