Han ten Broeke

Chef de Cabinet Wopke Hoekstra, Eurocommissaris voor Klimaat, Net Zero en Schone Groei. 🌍 Voorheen commentator en politicus. Nu passieve volger op X.

[Han ten Broeke @HanTenBroeke]

Dit profiel over mijn vertrek bij @BOVAG en @hcssnl en mijn start als Chef de Cabinet bij eurocommissaris @WBHoekstra verscheen vandaag in @FD_Nieuws: https://t.co/clKl5Uo297

[Han ten Broeke @HanTenBroeke]

@ajboekestijn @lexhoogduin Uitsluitend en alleen met Bach.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Last night, Russia launched one of its longest and most relentless drone attacks against Ukraine.

Another night of death and destruction.

And the indiscriminate targeting of civilians.

While Russia openly mocks diplomatic efforts, we continue to strengthen Ukraine.

We are finalising a €6 billion drone support package.

And we keep the pressure on Russia’s war economy with ever tougher sanctions.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

EU Foreign Ministers just gave the go-ahead to sanction Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians.

They also agreed new sanctions on leading Hamas figures.

It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery.
Extremisms and violence carry consequences.

[MagellanQuest 🇪🇺/acc @MagellanQuest]

People mock the EU as “bureaucracy”.
But that bureaucracy turned a continent of borders, currencies and wars into a space where 450 million people can travel, pay, call, study and work almost as if it were domestic.
That is not boring.
That is civilization becoming usable.

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Gosh this is good. Thank you @spectator

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Europe Day 2026 Trailer 🇪🇺

The EU has launched their promotion video for Europe Day, and it is filled with optimism for the future.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

The US just secured control of one of the largest heavy rare earth deposits on earth outside China.

It's in Greenland.

American mining company Critical Metals Corp has received formal approval from the Greenland government to acquire 70% of the Tanbreez deposit in southern Greenland.

Estimated resource: 4.7 billion tonnes of rare earth bearing material.

27% of those rare earths are heavy rare earth elements (dysprosium, terbium, yttrium ) the ones used in EV motors, wind turbines, and advanced military systems.

For context:
Mountain Pass, California (the main US deposit): 0.49% heavy rare earths

Bayan Obo, China's largest deposit: 1.13%

🚨Tanbreez: 27%

It also has exceptionally low uranium and thorium content 10–20 ppm uranium, under 100 ppm thorium.

That matters because radioactive contamination has killed other Greenland projects.

Tanbreez already holds a mining licence valid until 2050 one of only 2 sites out of 140+ active licences on the island to have received it.

The supply chain logic is straightforward:
Extract in Greenland → process in the US → supply defence and advanced technology sectors

Production is expected to begin 2027–2028, starting at 85,000 tonnes of rare earth oxides per year, scalable to 425,000 tonnes.

Project value estimated at $3 billion.

China controls 85% of global rare earth processing capacity.

The US currently imports 80% of its rare earths from China.

[Simon Nixon @Simon_Nixon]

It’s funny, when you consider that Brexiteers used to complain that the EU was too bureaucratic, to learn that the UK civil service has ballooned since 2016 from 385,000 to 516,000. That increase of 130,000 compares with an entire EU staff of just 60,000!
https://t.co/rb9N4xIKCd

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

brexit: who knew?

[Jason Corcoran @jason_corcoran]

"This has never happened in modern Russian history."
● Putin's Central Banker Elvira Nabiullina declared an unprecedented labor shortage in the economy caused by driven by an exodus of 1.5m people and 1.3m in the meat grinder.
@MoscowTimes_ru
https://t.co/RcrICAijqg

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

I had a highly constructive and productive meeting with the President of the European Commission.

We agreed that, as Prime Minister of Hungary, I will return to Brussels in the week of 25 May to conclude the political agreement necessary for Hungary and the Hungarian people to receive, as soon as possible, the EU funds they are entitled to — amounting to several thousand billion forints.

I would like to reassure everyone that the European Union is not imposing any conditions that would be contrary to Hungary’s national interests.

In one sentence: EU funds will soon start arriving in Hungary, enabling us to kick-start the Hungarian economy and to deliver what is needed for a functioning and humane country.

[Han ten Broeke @HanTenBroeke]

@ajboekestijn Zoals @EdwardGLuce opmerkte .. hij had zijn speech kunnen afsluiten met “No Kings”! ;-)

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Charles is preaching tolerance, executive restraint, decency, accountability, international peace......Half expect him to chant "No Kings" at any moment.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Excellent speech by King Charles. So good to hear the clarion cry for Ukraine, for NATO, for nature and the environment, for democracy and the checks on power. JFK mentioned more than Trump. Starmer directly quoted. Europe mentioned several times. Vance looked ill. I loved it. Loved the confidence in British and European values

[Han ten Broeke @HanTenBroeke]

Ben Sasse. Just this.

[Judge Stephen Dillard @JudgeDillard]

Every American should watch every second of this video.

Thank you, @BenSasse.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.”

What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khamenei Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.

This war has made America weaker - and less trusted on the world stage.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Today, the Iranian regime is still in place. They still have thousands of missiles and retain their highly enriched uranium and now they're negotiating for a firm grip on the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity to end the war.
Meanwhile, we've lost 14 U.S. servicemen and women and hundreds more have been wounded; spent tens of billions of dollars; and badly depleted our supplies battering Iran.
At the same time, inflation is raging again and gas is at $4.15 a gallon and rising--$1.20 more than the day before we decided to launch a war against Iran.
Remind me again why this was a good idea?

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Reminder that under Obama's Iran Deal the Iranians shipped 98 percent of their enriched uranium out of the country - without a pointless and devastating war.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

iran’s nuclear & ballistic missile programs were a real threat. more to israel and the gulf states than than to the united states, but real nonetheless.

responding to that threat with an all out regime change war is one of the most irresponsible foreign policy decisions the united states has made in my lifetime.

we will suffer the consequences of this mistake for years for years to come.