
Dutch China Critic Intimidated by Unknown Actors
The Dutch Foreign Ministry expressed concern over Marije Vlaskamp and her interviewee, Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu, having faced “such far-reaching intimidation.”
The Dutch Foreign Ministry expressed concern over Marije Vlaskamp and her interviewee, Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu, having faced “such far-reaching intimidation.”
The Netherlands’ pro-EU governing coalition must now choose between revising its green policy, as called for by voters, and facing gridlock.
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.
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.”
President Santokhi, who warned against the threat posed to his country’s “democratic institutions,” has set up a task force to track down those who stormed parliament.
The Dutch defense minister warned that Russia “continues to mobilize” and that “there are signs that Russia is preparing a new offensive.”
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt called for “an appropriate response from the governments of these two countries” which it accused of “protecting barbaric crimes under the inhuman and immoral banner they call ‘freedom of expression.’”
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new survey suggests that nearly a quarter of young people in the Netherlands believe the Holocaust is a “myth” or has been “greatly exaggerated.”
According to the BBC, 70% of the African-Caribbean community in the Netherlands believe an apology is important while only 38% of Dutch people as a whole think it is necessary.
The FvD quickly moved to plug the unfortunate leak that made over 92,000 members’ data public. Cyber attacks are suspected and a forensic investigation has been launched.