Prime Minister Mark Rutte last week called such intimidation “completely unacceptable.” The suspect, identified as Max van den B., was detained two weeks ago outside the home of Sigrid Kaag, who is now a vice prime minister and finance minister in Rutte's new ruling coalition. Kaag w...
Discontentment with the massive violations of the influential Dutch Prime Minister's (Johan Rudolf Thorbecke) health laws led to the foundation of the Dutch Society Against Quackery, in 1880. Within a few years, the Society had more than 1,100 members. Initially, quackery mostly consisted of the...
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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte. "How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution... how we can always, always give someth...
Drawing on his experience in the Dutch colonies, where a united front had proved successful in the independence struggle, Maring saw the CPC as a minor political party made up of a few dozen intellectuals unable to keep pace with the post-May 4th revolutionary dynamics of China. Moreover, ...
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Ithink of the Netherlands and Austria as the bellwethers of European politics. It was in Austria where a far-right party first entered a government of an EU member state. The Netherlands is a front-runner in political fragmentation. The Dutch parliament has 15 political parties, with only 150...
Prime Minister Dick Schoof said in a statement he was shocked by the images of the disaster. "My thoughts go out to the victims, all other people involved and the emergency services who are now working on the scene," he said. The Dutch royal family expressed similar sentiment...
Former U.K. Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that Salmond was a "huge figure in our politics." "While I disagreed with him on the constitutional question, there was no denying his skill in debate or his passion for politics," Sunak said on X. "May he rest in peace."...
He was the Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen in the Dutch Republic until his death by accidentally drowning in the Hollands Diep in 1711. Friso and his wife, Marie Louise, are the most recent common ancestors of all European monarchs occupying the throne today. Birthplace: Dessau, Germany...