France, US, UK, Germany back Dutch PM Mark Rutte to lead NATO
The United States, Britain, France and Germany on Thursday all backed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the next secretary general of NATO, putting him in a strong position to get the post.
As news of #AlexeiNavalny's death spread, spontaneous memorials took place in several urban areas, with people taken into custody in 36 cities from the border city of #Belgorod to #Vorkuta, an Arctic mining outpost once a centre of the Stalin-era gulag labour camps, to #NizhnyNovgorod, #Krasnodar, #RostovOnDon and #Tver. #Ukraine
On February 18, Foreign Policy reported that #Ukraine could receive the first #F16 fighters in the summer of 2024. This is likely to be in June.
On February 17, Dutch Prime Minister #MarkRutte said that the process of transferring F-16s to Ukraine is on schedule. Ukraine is to receive more than 20 combat aircraft. #Netherlands
EU trio visit Sarajevo to encourage Bosnia on EU path
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who recently has expressed reservations about Bosnia’s EU accession, will meet the country’s top officials in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
Dutch voters cast their ballots on 22 November in a snap parliamentary election called after the collapse in July of the outgoing coalition government headed by Mark Rutte, the EU’s second longest-serving leader after Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.
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Netherlands: How the Curtains Fell for Mark Rutte’s 13 Year Premiership.
The past few weeks have been anything but calm in Dutch politics. The fourth government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte collapsed.
An end is finally coming for Rutte’s 13 year-long premiership, the longest in Dutch history. How the curtains fell for ‘Teflon Rutte’, of whom people jokingly said his political career would never stop.
Farewell Mark Rutte, the Tiggerish Dutch prime minister.
Bouncy, endlessly optimistic, devoid of ideology—what’s not to like?
Winnie-the-Pooh’s sidekick Tigger and Mr Rutte share a trait: it is impossible to discern what either might want to achieve as Dutch prime minister. That is no huge problem for a fictional stuffed tiger. But for a man who has held the job for longer than anyone else it does rather raise questions.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he will step down from politics after this autumn's snap general election, a decision that marks the career end of the longest-serving head of government in Dutch history.
Rutte, who has led four coalition governments since 2010, announced the collapse of his current four-party coalition on Friday, following internal disputes over the tightening of Dutch asylum policy.