April 3, 2014
It’s good to hear a Dutch speaking liberal party leader forcefully expressing the case for EU reform. Sadly, as we noted earlier, it certainly wasn’t Nick Clegg. In fact it was the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who once again today reaff…
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January 24, 2014
Thierry BaudetThis week, the Dutch Parliament held a debate on whether it is necessary to hold a referendum on transferring new powers to the European Union. The debate was triggered by a campaign, called “Citizen’s forum – EU” which managed to gather…
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dutch elections, dutch politics, dutch subsidiarity review, EU referendum, EU reform, mark rutte, Netherlands, VVD, wilders |
October 30, 2013
Dutch PM Mark Rutte is often seen as a key UK ally who is able to maintain warm relations with both the Liberal and Conservative sides of the coalition. In London today to deliver the Isaiah Berlin lecture he talked about the big challenges facing Euro…
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Cameron, EU reform, liberals, mark rutte, NSA, TTIP, UK-EU relations, VVD |
September 19, 2013
In the Dutch Parliament earlier, the VVD (the party of the Dutch PM) EU spokesman Mark Verheijen said he thought EU treaty change was “inevitable” and what is more”when we want less Brussels in several domains, return whole policy areas, …
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dutch politics, dutch subsidiarity review, EU reform, treaty change, VVD |
March 11, 2013
In 2005, Dutch voters rejected the European ConstitutionA Dutch citizens’ campaign to make it mandatory to hold a referendum on any new transfer of powers to the EU – reminiscent of the UK’s referendum lock – has mustered 40,000 signatures, the thresho…
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democratic deficit, EU referendum, EU reform, Netherlands, referendum lock, VVD |
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