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Climate Solutions: What Congress Can Learn From the Dutch Farmer Protests
If Congress hopes to pass lasting climate policy, it should take care to avoid the mistakes of our European allies. In the last few weeks, Dutch farmers have taken to...

Netherlands Apologizes for Role in Srebrenica Massacre
Dutch defense minister Kajsa Ollongren issued a formal apology on Monday to the families of victims of the Srebrenica Massacre, a notorious incident of ethnic cleansing in July 1995 in...

Intelligence Internship: Russian Spy Caught Trying to Infiltrate ICC
Dutch media reported on Thursday that the country’s intelligence services had unmasked a Russian spy who had attempted to gain access to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by posing as a...

Dutch Foreign Minister Resigns over Mistakes in Afghanistan Withdrawal
Sigrid Kaag, the foreign minister of the Netherlands, announced her resignation on Thursday after the Dutch parliament accused the cabinet of mishandling the crisis. The airlift from Kabul evacuated around...

Dutch Wrestle With the Tradition of Black Pete in the Black Lives Matter Era
As Black Lives Matter protests and social uprisings spread across U.S. cities in the summer, the civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson wrote a personal letter to Dutch Prime...

False Hijacking Alarm Causes Panic in Amsterdam Airport
European airline Air Europa said a hijacking alarm that went off on one of its planes at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam was a “false alarm” in a Wednesday tweet. The...

Hostile Takeover: How Nationalism Could Fracture Europe’s Political and Economic Union
The European Union is now sixty years old. Instead of being in a celebratory mood, the EU’s leadership is fighting to hold the twenty-eight, soon to be twenty-seven, nation bloc...

The Dutch Election: Winners and Losers
Wednesday morning, Election Day in the Netherlands, found European elites apprehensive that the next domino on their continent was teetering. Their latest scourge was Geert Wilders, the populist insurgent and...

What’s the Point of the EU?
For years we have heard almost daily about serious problems facing the European Union. On the strategic level, there are two ways to deal with those problems. One option is...

Voters Are Rejecting the EU’s Hubris
In its “advisory referendum” on the European Union’s association agreement with Ukraine, the Dutch electorate rejected this foray beyond the EU’s frontiers while manifesting general unease about where the EU...