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Digitalization has taken a predominant role in the Netherlands. The Netherlands considers itself one of the leading ICT countries, promotes itself as ‘a safe place to do business’ and aspires to be the digital gateway of Europe. This report will first estimate the current and prospective size of the Dutch digital economy and the ICT […]
The European Union and Member States’ Secret Services warned that Russia uses hoaxes and hacker attacks to affect this year’s elections in key European countries. The focus is very much on Germany and France. But Moscow denies any wrongdoing. With elections scheduled for next week in the Netherlands, Czech Radio Rozhlas spoke with Sijbren de […]
Vol trots bevestigde president Trump tijdens zijn eerste optreden voor het Amerikaanse congres dat de aanleg van de Keystone en Dakota pijpleidingen doorgaan. Het gaat hier om een megaproject dat de oliezanden in het Canadese Alberta verbindt met plaatsen tot in het zuiden van Amerika. De overwinning die de Sioux-indianen op zijn voorganger Obama boekte […]
More than ten years ago I concluded that research on international and national security should be more than just qualitative research. As the head of the defense concepts department at the Ministry of Defense in The Hague, I concluded already in the 1990s that the traditional approach needed improvement. Traditional think-tanks did a great job, […]
Only days after his inauguration as President of the United States, Donald Trump stated that he would not shy away from “fighting fire with fire” when it comes to combating terrorist organizations, such as the self-styled ‘Islamic State’ (or Daesh) and al-Qaeda. The newly-elected President publicly contemplated the reintroduction of ‘enhanced interrogation’ methods such as […]
Het nucleair arsenaal moderniseren, testen met langeafstandsraketten en het optuigen van krijgsmachten: de defensie-uitgaven zijn wereldwijd naar nieuwe recordhoogtes gestegen. En het einde lijkt nog niet in zicht. Deze wapenrace zorgt voor politieke spanningen in verschillende regio’s; vooral de Amerikaanse plannen voor het bouwen van raketschilden wekken ergernis bij andere kernmachten. De grote vraag is: […]
Met het bezoek aan Europa van de Amerikaanse vicepresident en in zijn kielzog Tillerson en Mattis, de ministers van buitenlandse zaken en defensie, lijkt de constatering dat president Trump wel mee valt een stuk dichterbij gekomen. “Dit hadden we echt nodig”, verzuchtte EU-president Tusk. Inderdaad sprak vicepresident Pence de juiste woorden over de Navo, de […]
Soldaten moeten helmen delen, roepen ‘pang’ door een tekort aan kogels en gaan zonder eigen helikopters op missie. Het Nederlandse leger heeft nogal wat bezuinigingen achter de rug. Met de verkiezingen op komst smeekt defensie om meer geld. Sinds de Koude Oorlog is de Nederlandse krijgsmacht vooral veel tanks en vliegtuigen kwijtgeraakt. Ze zijn verkocht of […]
The United States, after President Donald Trump took office, nixed a big trade pact with Asia, and let another big trade accord with Europe die on the vine. Now both those jilted partners are getting together — threatening to leave the United States out in the cold as the world’s biggest economic blocs reshape their […]
In my previous column, I wrote an analysis on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and some of the outstanding issues after the release of the second State of the Energy Union by the European Commission on 1 February. In response, Sebastian Sass – a lobbyist for Nord Stream 2 in Brussels – wrote a letter […]
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