The future of the European Union is a fashionable debate among politicians and academics with the European Parliament elections in sight, set for May 2014. However, there is a huge information gap amongst the general public – they do not know when the next EP elections are. On 11 December, 2013, the Hague Institute for…
A 2011 WRR (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, translated: Scientific Council for Government Policy) report on reshaping Dutch foreign policy is critical in light of the tendency of Dutch cabinets to pursue an overly active and unrealistic foreign policy. During the Cold War, it was believed that the end of the Soviet era would bring about…
The Netherlands Foreign Minister Frans Timmerman presented a letter to the House of Representatives of the Netherlands on 16 August 2013 on the topic of Hungary’s constitutional reforms. I’ve translated the position of the Netherlands on the issue, which constitutes only part of the letter. The other two sections talk about the context within which…
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