Yoeri Albrecht

Director @DeBalie | Founder @EuroPressPrize
@UniofOxford
@yoerialbrecht.bsky.social

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Vanavond bespreken we @DeBalie toekomst van Digitaal NL. 20.00 hrs

[De Balie @DeBalie]

Maandag in De Balie: welke keuzes maakt Nederland voor de digitale toekomst? Investeren we in eigen AI, cloud en digitale infrastructuur, of blijven we afhankelijk van buitenlandse tech? Met o.a. @frankheem (@ASMLcompany), Barbara Baarsma (@PwC) en Marleen Stikker (@waag).

https://t.co/y1aiXP4NQm

[De Balie @DeBalie]

Woensdag in De Balie: hebben de babyboomers er écht zo’n bende van gemaakt? Over torenhoge huizenprijzen, de klimaatcrisis, #neoliberalisme en de idealen van een generatie die geloofde dat de wereld maakbaar was. Prominente stemmen uit verschillende generaties gaan met elkaar in gesprek.

https://t.co/Tju18SSqHX

[De Balie @DeBalie]

Woensdag in De Balie: directeur @YoeriAlbrecht in gesprek met o.a. Jaap Goudsmit en Ronit Palache over de manier waarop oorlog, trauma en identiteit van generatie op generatie doorwerken.

https://t.co/UJSPCYjGy9

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

When you vote for the wrong candidate.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Rape of girls as young as 4 and women as old as 82. Routine genital electrocution of male Ukrainian prisoners.

This is just a fragment of the absolutely nightmarish stuff from the just-released UN report on sexual violence in Russia's invasion of Ukraine:

• Violations detailed in the report include rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks, and genital beating
• Russian forces are responsible for the vast majority of sexual violence in Ukraine
• The majority of victims are Ukrainian men. In a common form of torture against Ukrainian POWs detailed in the report, Russian forces electrocuted men's genitals using tasers or a Soviet-era military field telephone known as a 'tapik.'
• Women and children, primarily in Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces, also fell victim to rapes and sexual assault. The youngest documented rape survivor was a four-year-old girl, and the oldest was an 82-year-old woman, with both cases perpetrated by Russian forces.
https://t.co/UHn1k8MLBX

[Hidde Bouwmeester @H_Bouwmeester]

- Duizenden mensen zitten vast in Oleshky.
- Geen voedsel, water of medicijnen.
- Humanitaire hulp wordt tegengehouden door de Russische bezetter.

Je zou meer media-aandacht verwachten voor een Holodomor 2.0, niet?

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Zondag 19.30 @DeBalie Film uit de Oekraïne en gesprek met makers en brandweerlieden over de mensen in de oorlog die onder vuur het werk doen.
https://t.co/0ETeIMXEbc

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Tonight at 19.30 @DeBalie I will be speaking with Ukrainian Firefighters. They just arrived in Amsterdam by train form Kyiv. You can come and listen and watch the documentary. https://t.co/dyJlCfwpUN

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The Russians now target firefighters. This is not a war about real estate

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

@homepiggy1 Ga de laarzen van je zwarte meester Poetin likken. Lager dan dit ka je niet komen, kindermoord goedpraten.

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Russians using man-made famine on the Ukrainians. It is an old genocidal habit of the Russians. #Holodomor

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russian forces are starving out the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region.

Russian forces are blockading the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky on the left bank of the Kherson region, causing a humanitarian catastrophe and leaving the civilian population without food or medical supplies.

Approximately 6,000 people, including 200 children, still live in the city.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

I see a lot of confusion about the EU–Canada relationship:

1. “Associate membership” is not a thing in EU law but
2. It can and should go beyond CETA.
3. It can hardly go beyond EEA-level integration.
4. The likely landing zone is somewhere around the EU–Switzerland model.

But the significance may lie elsewhere:

this modest new status could make the EU an institutional hub around which other democracies organise strategic autonomy, without joining the Union.

That is more consequential than “Europe + Canada against the US” and may unleash new relations with Uk and candidate countries -#canada

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Een politicus die Goethe citeert over vrijheid. Beter dan @MarkJCarney kan het wat mij betreft niet worden!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"

"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."

"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"

"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"

"Every day"

"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."

My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As predicted, and mostly deserved. Now what is preventing Europe—Belgium, especially—from finally seizing Russia’s assets and using them to defend itself from Russian aggression? Still playing by a rulebook that Putin has ripped into confetti.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ Merz: "Anyone who thinks Ukraine should be abandoned in its fight for freedom will have abandoned freedom in all of Europe tomorrow,"

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

Russia does not always need to invade a country to take control of it. In Belarus, it found a dictator willing to trade our sovereignty for his own survival.

Russian troops are stationed on our soil. Our territory has been used to attack Ukraine. Belarusians who stand up to the dictatorship are locked in prisons and penal colonies.

Ukraine has a democratically elected government defending its independence alongside its people. In Belarus, the man controlling the state opened the door to Moscow and imprisoned those who challenged him.

A European country’s sovereignty was traded for one man’s grip on power. Belarusians never agreed to that bargain.

Our struggle for democracy is also a struggle for independence. Europe must support those fighting for a free Belarus and refuse to accept Russian control over our country as permanent.

Belarus was never Lukashenka’s to sell.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

L’alliance entre le Canada et l’Europe ne se définit pas par ce à quoi nous nous opposons, mais par ce que nous défendons : la liberté, la solidarité, la prospérité et le développement durable. Une alliance suffisamment forte pour que personne ne puisse nous dicter nos choix.

Individuellement, l’Europe et le Canada sont forts. Ensemble, ils le sont encore plus.

Ce fut un honneur de m’adresser au Parlement européen aujourd’hui.

[Frid 🇪🇺🦌 @Frid45]

Gabriel Attal, candidate in the French presidential election, calls for the creation of the “United States of Europe” to make Europe the world’s leading power. 🇪🇺

He says that voting for Marine Le Pen means supporting Donald Trump and favoring Vladimir Putin.

[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Zondag 19.30 @DeBalie Film uit de Oekraïne en gesprek met makers en brandweerlieden over de mensen in de oorlog die onder vuur het werk doen.
https://t.co/0ETeIMXEbc

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Lekcja z 17 września 1939 roku nie pójdzie na marne. Jeśli ktokolwiek odważy się nas zaatakować, spotka się ze stanowczą odpowiedzią. Naszą i naszych sojuszników.

[Trees van der Zee🇺🇦 @Annamariatrees]

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[Yoeri Albrecht @YoeriAlbrecht]

Zondag 19.30 een avond in @DeBalie over de realiteit van Brandweerlieden, soldaten, piloten in oorlogstijd. https://t.co/dyJlCfwpUN
Ik spreek onder andere met Oekrainse brandweerlieden Artur Morkotenko en Pavlo Petrov over de realiteit van de oorlog.