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Welcome to my website. Here I share the work I have been doing since I was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 for the D66 political party from The Netherlands. My work focuses on the committees of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Culture, Media, Education & Sports.
I look forward to continuing discussing the role of Europe in the world, as well as on the opportunities and threats that new technologies bring, with the goal to foster as much freedom to as many individuals as possible.
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Media: Bahrain Live Coverage: Countering the regime’s allegations against Nabeel Rajab
By Scott Lucas, EAWorldview, 08.05.2012 1815 GMT: Eighteen members of the European Parliament have called on the European Union to hold the Bahrain government accountable over current and historic human…
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Media: The Acta debate – will innovation be stifled?
By Philip Ebels, 08.05.2012, EUobserver.com Opponents of Acta, the controversial anti-counterfeiting treaty up for vote in the European Parliament in July, say, among other things, that it would stifle innovation….
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Media: MEPs: “High time for EU sanctions against Bahrain”
D66, 08.05.2012 EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton should start preparing a set of targeted restrictive measures against the Bahraini government. In a letter sent today, initiated by Dutch MEP…
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Media: Is the U.K.’s Love Affair With the Internet at Risk?
By Ben Rooney, The Wall Street Journal, 02.05.2012 The U.K. government has made much of pitching the country as a place that companies can do business electronically. Initiatives have included…
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Media: The American Connection
François Hollande has embraced the tactics of Obama’s 2008 campaign—and it might win him the French election. By Sasha Issenberg, Slate, 20.04.2012 The three young men monitoring the volunteer sign-up…
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Media: Pirates Take Politics By Storm
By Claire Bigg, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 19.04.2012 Founded in Sweden six years ago by a group of Internet freedom activists, the Pirate Party has since been spreading across the…
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Media: Turkish officials board ship possibly carrying weapons to Syria
By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN, 18.04.2012 Turkish port authorities boarded a German-owned cargo ship reported to be carrying Iranian weapons bound for Syria, TV news footage showed on…
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