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1 year, 6 months ago

Some Dutch remain in Russia as Wagner Group rebellion defused

Some Dutch people have decided to remain in Russia against government advice, as the situation appears to defuse. The Parool reports that there are ‘several hundred’ Dutch people still in the country, citing the foreign affairs ministry. At the weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group militia, appeared to make a move against the Russian military, occupying the military …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Some Dutch remain in Russia as Wagner Group rebellion defused

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Some Dutch people have decided to remain in Russia against government advice, as the situation appears to defuse. The Parool reports that there are ‘several hundred’ Dutch people still in the country, citing the foreign affairs ministry. At the weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group militia, appeared to make a move against the Russian military, occupying the military …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Hoekstra vows to raise 'issues of concern' during visit to China

Dutch News

Foreign affairs minister Wopke Hoekstra is visiting China for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic as relations between the two countries become increasingly delicate. Hoekstra will meet his counterpart in Beijing, Qin Gang, during the two-day trip, as well as vice-president Han Zheng, who visited prime minister Mark Rutte in The Hague two weeks ago. G7 nations voiced their …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Hoekstra vows to raise 'issues of concern' during visit to China

Dutch News

Foreign affairs minister Wopke Hoekstra is visiting China for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic as relations between the two countries become increasingly delicate. Hoekstra will meet his counterpart in Beijing, Qin Gang, during the two-day trip, as well as vice-president Han Zheng, who visited prime minister Mark Rutte in The Hague two weeks ago. G7 nations voiced their …

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2 years, 2 months ago

D66 wants access to abortion to become a human right

NL Times

The D66 wants the Netherlands to promote the right to abortion internationally. Women everywhere in Europe should be able to have a safe and affordable abortion, say D66 MPs Sjoerd Sjoerdsma and Wieke Paulusma. The Netherlands must take the lead to fight these abuses and fight for accessible and safe abortion care in the world," Sjoerdsma said. For this, D66 …

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2 years, 2 months ago

MP's demand immediate closure of illegal Chinese police stations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam

NL Times

There are two Chinese police stations in the Netherlands, one in Amsterdam and one in Rotterdam. According to RTL, the police stations opened in 2018 with the stated goal of helping Dutch Chinese with administrative matters like renewing their driver’s licenses. The researchers also found indications that China uses the police stations to follow and threaten Chinese critics in the …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Ministers file complaint against FvD MP over Nazi photo

Dutch News

Two ministers have filed a complaint with the police against FvD MP Pepijn van Houwelingen over a now-deleted photo showing the pair with a photoshopped Nazi flag. The original image was a photograph of social affairs minister Karien van Gennip and health minister Ernst Kuipers standing together with the flag of the Sustainable Development Goals. Van Houwelingen’s image was manipulated …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Ministers file complaint against FvD MP over Nazi photo

Dutch News

Two ministers have filed a complaint with the police against FvD MP Pepijn van Houwelingen over a now-deleted photo showing the pair with a photoshopped Nazi flag. The original image was a photograph of social affairs minister Karien van Gennip and health minister Ernst Kuipers standing together with the flag of the Sustainable Development Goals. Van Houwelingen’s image was manipulated …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Eroding civility in Parliament: MPs want leader to tackle threats, intimidation

NL Times

A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, wants the Kamer president to have more power to intervene if parliamentarians intimidate or threaten their colleagues in debates. "Free parliamentary debate, this fundamental principle of democracy, is under serious pressure," the FvD member said in the debate about civility in and of the Tweede Kamer. "The current …

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4 years, 2 months ago

MPs call on Blok to uphold democracy and ignore Trump’s declaration of victory

Dutch News

MPs have called for the Dutch government to publicly condemn Donald Trump’s declaration of victory in the US presidential election before all the votes have been counted. The Dutch government must call on Trump to abide by the rules of democracy.’ De situatie in de VS laat zien hoe belangrijk het is om te stemmen. — Jesse Klaver November 4, …

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4 years, 2 months ago

MPs call on Blok to uphold democracy and ignore Trump’s declaration of victory

Dutch News

MPs have called for the Dutch government to publicly condemn Donald Trump’s declaration of victory in the US presidential election before all the votes have been counted. The Dutch government must call on Trump to abide by the rules of democracy.’ De situatie in de VS laat zien hoe belangrijk het is om te stemmen. — Jesse Klaver November 4, …

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4 years, 4 months ago

The political fringes fire at Rutte, but EU recovery fund support is assured

Dutch News

Prime minister Mark Rutte was criticised by far right and Socialist MPs during Wednesday evening’s debate on the EU €750bn recovery fund, but he was still assured of sufficient support for the Dutch position in the negotiations. In particular, the anti-immigration PVV and FvD said that Rutte had wrongly voted to give billions of euros to ‘poor’ member states. Roelof …

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4 years, 4 months ago

The political fringes fire at Rutte, but EU recovery fund support is assured

Dutch News

Prime minister Mark Rutte was criticised by far right and Socialist MPs during Wednesday evening’s debate on the EU €750bn recovery fund, but he was still assured of sufficient support for the Dutch position in the negotiations. In particular, the anti-immigration PVV and FvD said that Rutte had wrongly voted to give billions of euros to ‘poor’ member states. Roelof …

Netherlands Debate Rutte

4 years, 7 months ago

Many young female civil servants face sex harassment regularly

NL Times

One in seven female public sector officials under 35 years of age have regularly experienced unwanted sexual behavior at work, according to the findings of new government research, which delved into the extent of discrimination within the public sector. According to a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations and carried out by Statistics Netherlands, a further …

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5 years ago

Dutch woman with Iranian roots is banned from flying to US

Dutch News

Foreign affairs minister Stef Blok has been asked to explain why a Dutch woman with Iranian roots was barred from flying to the US with her friends for a short holiday during the Christmas break. Annahita Mazaheri, who was born in the Netherlands and only has Dutch nationality, was banned from boarding a plane to Los Angeles last week by …

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5 years ago

Dutch woman with Iranian roots is banned from flying to US

Dutch News

Foreign affairs minister Stef Blok has been asked to explain why a Dutch woman with Iranian roots was barred from flying to the US with her friends for a short holiday during the Christmas break. Annahita Mazaheri, who was born in the Netherlands and only has Dutch nationality, was banned from boarding a plane to Los Angeles last week by …

Dutch Netherlands Iran Schiphol Blok

5 years ago

Ruling party wants European authority, not airlines to decide on flying over conflict zones

NL Times

Government party D66 no longer wants airlines to decide for themselves whether to fly over conflict areas. This is a lesson that should have been learned after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board, Paternotte said. The fact that it has not yet been …

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5 years ago

U.S. attack in Iraq "worrying"; Dutch MPs say reconsider Strait of Hormuz patrol

NL Times

In response to a drone attack by the United States on a Baghdad airport, killing an Iranian military leader, Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said the events unfolding in Iraq are "worrying and serious." Blok said that "Soleimani played a role" in instability in the region, and acknowledged attacks by Iran on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and coalition forces …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Dutch Queen under fire for meeting with controversial Saudi crown prince

NL Times

Queen Maxima is facing criticism over a meeting she had with Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 summit in Osaka on Friday. "The conversation between Maxima and the crown prince was about access to financial services and about improving the economic position of women", government information service RVD said to NOS. Saudi state media, who released a photo of this …

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6 years, 3 months ago

Rob Jetten, 31, to succeed Pechtold as D66 leader

Dutch News

Rob Jetten has been named as the new leader of liberal Democratic Party D66 after Alexander Pechtold stepped down at the weekend. Jetten, 31, becomes the third-youngest party leader in Dutch political history, following Jesse Klaver, who was 29 when he took over as leader of GroenLinks in 2015. After negotiating the coalition deal that took D66 into government for …

Party Leader Jetten Pechtold

6 years, 3 months ago

Rob Jetten, 31, to succeed Pechtold as D66 leader

Dutch News

Rob Jetten has been named as the new leader of liberal Democratic Party D66 after Alexander Pechtold stepped down at the weekend. Jetten, 31, becomes the third-youngest party leader in Dutch political history, following Jesse Klaver, who was 29 when he took over as leader of GroenLinks in 2015. After negotiating the coalition deal that took D66 into government for …

Party Leader Jetten Pechtold

6 years, 3 months ago

D66 leader Pechtold steps down: What the papers say

Dutch News

Alexander Pechtold is stepping down as leader of coalition partner D66. The other side of the coin however, was that D66 turned into a ‘well-oiled power machine from which a public debate about party direction and ideals has all but vanished’, VK writes. D66 has not been doing well in the polls and this will almost certainly make the party …

Party Paper Leader Rutte Writes Trouw D66

6 years, 3 months ago

D66 leader Pechtold steps down: What the papers say

Dutch News

Alexander Pechtold is stepping down as leader of coalition partner D66. The other side of the coin however, was that D66 turned into a ‘well-oiled power machine from which a public debate about party direction and ideals has all but vanished’, VK writes. D66 has not been doing well in the polls and this will almost certainly make the party …

Party Paper Leader Rutte Writes Trouw D66

6 years, 3 months ago

Alexander Pechtold quits as D66 leader, after 12 years at the top

Dutch News

D66 leader Alexander Pechtold is standing down as head of the party and will quit as an MP on Tuesday, he told delegates to the party congress on Saturday. Pechtold told delegates in his final speech as party leader: ‘I am leaving the stage’. Because don’t forget, we are a stable, middle party, a government party.’ When Pechtold became party …

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Some Dutch remain in Russia as Wagner Group rebellion defused

Some Dutch remain in Russia as Wagner Group rebellion defused

Hoekstra vows to raise 'issues of concern' during visit to China

Hoekstra vows to raise 'issues of concern' during visit to China

D66 wants access to abortion to become a human right

MP's demand immediate closure of illegal Chinese police stations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam

Ministers file complaint against FvD MP over Nazi photo

Ministers file complaint against FvD MP over Nazi photo

Eroding civility in Parliament: MPs want leader to tackle threats, intimidation

MPs call on Blok to uphold democracy and ignore Trump’s declaration of victory

MPs call on Blok to uphold democracy and ignore Trump’s declaration of victory

The political fringes fire at Rutte, but EU recovery fund support is assured

The political fringes fire at Rutte, but EU recovery fund support is assured

Many young female civil servants face sex harassment regularly

Dutch woman with Iranian roots is banned from flying to US

Dutch woman with Iranian roots is banned from flying to US

Ruling party wants European authority, not airlines to decide on flying over conflict zones

U.S. attack in Iraq "worrying"; Dutch MPs say reconsider Strait of Hormuz patrol

Dutch Queen under fire for meeting with controversial Saudi crown prince

Rob Jetten, 31, to succeed Pechtold as D66 leader

Rob Jetten, 31, to succeed Pechtold as D66 leader

D66 leader Pechtold steps down: What the papers say

D66 leader Pechtold steps down: What the papers say

Alexander Pechtold quits as D66 leader, after 12 years at the top