Bart Groothuis
@bgroothuis
🇳🇱 Europarlementariër MEP / VVD / Rapporteur Cyber Security / Chips Act / Defence / disinformation / H2 / 🎼Gregorian / ‘(N)iemand die het ziet’
Vanavond om 20:30 uur op NPO2 wordt de derde aflevering van de documentaire ‘Niemand die het ziet’ uitgezonden. Online kun je stiekem alvast de vierde en laatste aflevering streamen. Veel kijkplezier! 🍿 npo.nl/start/serie/ni…
The socialist government of Spain is going bonkers. They let the Chinese do their wiretapping. What could possibly go wrong? therecord.media/spain-awards-c…
Spain is making a big mistake by letting Huawei store its wiretaps
Spain clearly competes for Darwin Award in category of states with Hungary and Slovakia. - Spain says giving Chinese intelligence proxy (Huawei) access to Spanish intelligence intercepts is safe. How strategically stupid or corrupted to you have to get?…
On German ARD television I gave my assessment that our electrical grid is becoming too dependent on Chinese products. Why are we letting these vulnerabilities grow in our critical infrastructure? Wake up!
“Geef ruimte aan diplomatieke onderhandelingen, escaleren is het domste wat we kunnen doen. Wij zijn elkaars vijand niet en dat besef moet ook bij Trump tussen de oren komen. De EU moet het proberen te rationaliseren.” Europarlementariër @bgroothuis over het belang van een…
China beperkt de export van kritieke aardmetalen. Deze beperkingen raken onze industrieën hard, fabrieken dreigen te sluiten. Het Europees Parlement heeft een resolutie van Europarlementariër @bgroothuis aangenomen, waarin hij pleit voor een stevige Europese reactie. Het roer…
A weak European response to China cutting off our industries from rare earth materials will only encourage more coercion in the future. So show strength and determination
Europe faces dual coercion: tariffs from Trump and China’s strategic chokehold on rare earth exports. Epic picture from this morning’s breakfast meeting with Trade Commissioner Sefkovic. He got our message: be strong 💪and don’t invite future coercion
This weekend and next week in Strasbourg I will negotiate a resolution on how to tackle China’s raw materials export restrictions to Europe. It’s not in the newspapers that much, but European industries are currently shutting down because China is squeezing us. Vote on Thursday🗳️
Russia increasingly uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, Dutch intelligence reveals. Next step is to identify the Russian individuals who committed these war crimes and indict them. They must understand: The Hague is the only city outside Russia you are still welcome to @ICC @OPCW
Our Dutch intelligence agencies reveal: Russia is increasingly using chemical weapons in Ukraine. After tear gas it is confirmed Russia deploys the more potent and prohibited chloropicrin. This is unacceptable: more sanctions and isolation of Russia, more support to Ukraine! ⤵️
Trump’s ‘big and beautiful bill’ isn’t about taxes, it’s about the ban on regulating AI snopes.com/fact-check/big…
Dutch secret weapon for a succesful NATO summit: raw herring from the North Sea and strong liquor / jenever
Hackers breached Norwegian dam and opened the valve. ‘The valve ran at full capacity for four hours before the unauthorized change was detected’. Unclear intent energiteknikk.net/2025/06/hacker…
Today in the New York Times I argue Trump’s manoeuvres to shut down parts of the International Criminal Court in The Hague through Microsoft only demonstrates Europe must become more sovereign nytimes.com/2025/06/20/tec…
The European electrical grid is becoming too Chinese. We are too vulnerable. Make it safe again:
The only reason Ayatollah Khamenei thus far remains in power in Iran, is because of the support of Russia and China. But Russia abandoned Iran today as its ally. The heat is on. Europe must stand with the brave people of Iran and put maximum pressure
The Islamic Regime of Iran, supported by China and Russia, took a big hit last night because Israel did what it had to do. Europe is not part of the war, which hopefully de-escalates, but Europe is part of the conflict. Will ask for a debate next week in Strasbourg
‘If the Shah had remained on his throne in Iran in 1979, Iran might have evolved in the late 20th century into a pro-Western constitutional monarchy and, in economic terms, become a Middle Eastern version of South Korea’ (Kaplan, Waste Land, p32)
Tomorrow on the Studio Energie podcast, my guests will be @bgroothuis, MEP for @RenewEurope, and Christoph Podewils, Secretary General of the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC). The topic we’ll be discussing: energy security, cyberattacks, and China.