Hester Groen

🇳🇱🇪🇺 (Public) Diplomacy - Foreign Affairs - EU - NATO - Human Rights - Security politics. Tweets NL FR ES EN DE - URLs, Follows & RTs ≠ endorsement

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@GambLuca @ilfoglio_it Che situazione assurda😢

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@GabrielaDancau Ambassador Dancau and Ambassador @KWursterova super beautifully dressed, as always!

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@fedefaziof @DCU @LawGovDCU @DELI_DCU Grandissima!! Tantissimi auguri Federica👏👏👏

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Dutch: calmed where it can be, protected where it must—always comfortable and connected.

The result? You can now ride across the city on infrastructure for everyone—not just the fit and brave.

[George Tsitati @Tsitati_George]

Fall in love with your life. Wake up early, buy your favourite coffee, go for walks, eat good food, wear what makes you feel confident, and listen to your favourite music. Purposefully create these small moments that make you fall in love with your life.

Happy New Month.

[Ambasciata e Consolato dei Paesi Bassi in Italia @NLinItaly]

I Paesi Bassi sono terzi nel medagliere ai Giochi di #MilanoCortinaOlympics2026, con 10 ori nel pattinaggio.

Cosa rende i Paesi Bassi una tale potenza del ghiaccio? L’Ambasciatore olandese in Italia Michael Stibbe lo spiega in un’intervista alla RAI. ❄️🇳🇱

[Sophia Besch @SophiaBesch]

If you have missed this and if you read German: @jana_puglierin, brilliant analyst and crystal clear explainer of European security and defense challenges wrote a book. You can buy it now, and read it, gift it, assign it to your students. Highly recommend.

[Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱 @DutchMFA]

In 2020 the Netherlands submitted an inter-State application to the @ECHR_CEDH regarding Russia’s responsibility for the downing of flight MH17 and the deaths of everyone on board, including 196 Dutch nationals. The Court ruled in the Netherlands’ favour: https://t.co/byF7Zt3izc

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@PeterWilson Congratulations Ambassador!!

[Annalena Baerbock @ABaerbockArchiv]

#TheHeartOfNATO - because it‘s 2024. #FFP

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

Day 1000. My life changed drastically since day 1.

Everyone said Ukraine will fall in 3 days. Not a single person believed in us, but we fought fiercely in 2022, against all odds, and we won the battle of Kyiv.

My thoughts on 1000 days, as a soldier of Ukrainian Army now🧵

[Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake]

Talent and academics will leave the US. The EU (Member States)
should initiate (tech) talent visas that can be expedited swiftly

[Sophia Besch @SophiaBesch]

Europeans cannot afford to panic now. Unite, don’t scramble. Get our own people in line and our own houses (Defense budgets) in order. Consider our strengths, have your opening offers ready but don’t rush to give up all leverage. It’s going to be a long 4 years.

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@lunaenmaus Wat vreselijk verdrietig! Heel veel sterkte.

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@Soofco Altijd! Een van de gezelligste dingen die je op een dag mee kan maken☺️

[Hester Groen @hestermgroen]

@Soofco Beter ten halve gekeerd dan ten hele gedwaald😘

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

Spent the evening with over 50 young Afghan women on Zoom.

Many of us wore our favorite clothing in protest of the Taliban's ban. Their resilience is astounding.

As one girl named Hadia said, “Borders divide us, but the fight for women's rights unites us all.”

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

The 2024 Summer Olympics officially begin today in Paris 🇫🇷

A thread of the best uniforms of the Paris 2024 Olympics 🧵

1. Team Mongolia 🇲🇳

[Gro-Tsen @gro_tsen]

I think non-French and non-French-speaking readers should be told about how utterly insane things are now in and around Paris because of the Olympics are. The opening ceremony is one week away and they've already barred any access to the Seine! 🧵⤵️ •1/19

[Ben Coates @bencoates1]

Quietly devastating, this:
A series of photographs by Ilvy Njiokiktjien of the empty bedrooms, work desks and classrooms left behind by the people murdered on #MH17

https://t.co/5EHAOxLDLc