Tag: Netherlands

Farmers Party Surges in Dutch Elections

The populist BBB, only founded in 2019, is expected to become the largest bloc in the Dutch Senate as the ring-wing Forum for Democracy saw its vote share collapse.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte headshot smiling

Netherlands: 83% Think PM Rutte Should Resign, Opinion Poll Reveals

Calls for Rutte’s resignation have grown in the wake of a report from the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on Natural Gas Extraction in Groningen which concluded “the interests of the people of Groningen have been systematically ignored in the natural gas extraction” in the city, and added the result has “had disastrous consequences for them.”

Refabricated Tanks Headed to Ukraine

The Dutch defense minister warned that Russia “continues to mobilize” and that “there are signs that Russia is preparing a new offensive.”