Tag: Mark Rutte
EU verliert mit Frans Timmermans ihren wichtigsten Klimapolitiker
Frans Timmermans Der Niederländer gilt als die wichtigste klimapolitische Stimme der EU-Kommission. (Foto: AP) Brüssel Der Sozialdemokrat Frans Timmermans wird als Spitzenkandidat ein rot-grünes Bündnis in die niederländische Parlamentswahl Ende des…
Prime Minister Rutte announces his retirement from politics
Mark Rutte He ran the government for 13 years. (Photo: IMAGO/ANP) Amsterdam Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will leave politics after the snap elections. The politician said on Monday. Rutte’s…
Dutch Prime Minister Rutte announces his retirement from politics
Mark Rutte He ran the government for 13 years. (Photo: IMAGO/ANP) Amsterdam Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte no longer wants to run for a fifth term. Rutte said on Monday…
Dutch government collapses over asylum dispute
Mark Rutte The Dutch Prime Minister will probably have to face new elections. (Photo: IMAGO/ANP) The Hague The Dutch government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte has collapsed in the dispute…
Germany and the Netherlands want to work together on offshore energy
Olaf Scholz (front) and Mark Rutte The Federal Chancellor and the Dutch Prime Minister made statements after the joint talks in Rotterdam. (Photo: Reuters) Rotterdam The Netherlands and Germany want…
Fences, controls, deportations – the EU relies on isolation
Polish border Several countries are now building fences at the EU’s external borders. (Photo: imago images/NurPhoto) Brussels The EU countries want to take more action against illegal immigrants. At their…
Dispute over new debt fund – that’s how much money the EU still has in reserve
Brussels There is hardly an issue that divides Europe as much as the question of whether the European Union should take on new joint debt for the green restructuring of…
Support for US restrictions against China
ASML Training Center Export restrictions for the systems would be a serious setback for China’s ambitions to become independent of imports by building its own chip industry. (Photo: Reuters) Tokyo,…
CEOs and experts in Davos call for a European growth agenda
Christian Klein The SAP boss calls for less fragmentation in German economic policy. (Photo: Bloomberg) davos Anyone who gets away with a black eye is still injured: This is what…
With these financial pots, the EU is fighting against the energy crisis
EU summit in Brussels The EU Commission (here Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Mario Draghi, Olaf Scholz and Mette Frederiksen) should examine “common European solutions”. (Photo: dpa) Brussels…
EU wants to work on gas price cap – Scholz: “We got together”
Chancellor Scholz (left) with Belgium’s Prime Minister De Croo (middle) and the outgoing Italian Prime Minister Draghi A price cap for gas has been demanded in the EU for months.…
Major offensive begins – battles for Mariupol Steelworks
Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol under fire Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are waiting in the plant in the southern port city of Mariupol. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf The US Department of…
Sigrid Kaag: Left liberal determines Dutch financial policy
Sigrid Kaag With her party D66, the left-liberal could also shape the course of the Netherlands’ European policy. (Photo: imago images/ANP) Brussels Sigrid Kaag celebrated the success in the elections…
Netherlands impose a new lockdown
Mark Rutte The Prime Minister of the Netherlands announces new tightening of the corona policy during a press conference. (Photo: dpa) The hague Shortly before Christmas, the Netherlands imposed a…
A pandemic of anger is raging in Europe
Düsseldorf, Rome, Brussels, Zurich, Vienna The “storm on the Reichstag” is still badly remembered in Berlin: When around 400 “lateral thinkers” demonstrators occupied the stairs in front of the Reichstag…
Pressure from investors even after moving to London
Shell logo The group flees to Great Britain. (Photo: AP) The oil company Shell leaves the Netherlands and relocates its sole headquarters to London. In Great Britain, the move is…
How other countries form multi-party coalitions
Brussels, Madrid, Stockholm, London, Rome In recent years it has become increasingly difficult for European politicians to form stable governments. The societies are changing and with them the parliaments: The…