Source link The young climate activist has been detained at a demonstration near the Dutch parliament Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has padded her arrest record at a protest in the Netherlands, reportedly being detained twice by police after she helped block roads near the Dutch parliament. The incidents occurred on Saturday, when a large […]
Source link The Netherlands will deploy a Patriot air defense unit to NATO ally Lithuania as part of a summer joint air defense exercise, the Dutch Defense Ministry announced this week. The several-week-long drill is essential to strengthen air defenses on the eastern flank, the Dutch military claimed in a press release on Thursday. The […]
Source link The EU’s need to boost defense spending does not depend on whether the ex-US president is re-elected, the Dutch PM has said Europe should be spending more on defense and ramping up its ammunition production to boost its own security and help Ukraine, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said at the Munich […]
Source link Accession to the US-led bloc is a “sensitive process” that may require intermediate steps, Dutch caretaker PM Mark Rutte has said The Netherlands’ caretaker prime minister, Mark Rutte, has said that admitting Ukraine to NATO is not feasible while the conflict with Russia is ongoing. Rutte has been described in the media as […]
Source link “Entire society” must be ready “when thing go wrong,” General Martin Wijnen has said The Netherlands should urgently get ready to face a security challenge posed by an “increasingly assertive” Russia, the nation’s Land Forces commander, Lieutenant General Martin Wijnen, said on Thursday. Amsterdam should strengthen the military and help the society adapt to […]
Source link The government considered the Dutch Auschwitz Committee an extremist group and communist front The Dutch Domestic Security Service (BVD) surveilled Jewish citizens for decades after they returned from Auschwitz and other concentration camps, considering them potential threats to democracy, according to documents declassified last year by the National Archives and analyzed by Dutch […]
Source link Although he considers himself a liberal, the politician has been an outspoken critic of Islam and faced death threats for his views Geert Wilders is a stalwart of the Dutch opposition, whose controversial views on immigration and Islam have seen him live under police protection for nearly two decades. Now, after a decisive […]