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Rik de Ruiter

@rikderuiter1978.bsky.social

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Associate Professor, Public Administration, Leiden University

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Wilders was on TV last night saying he’d “never had warm connections with Russia”. This is very clearly a lie. Not a bending of the truth or an attempt to change the subject, but a straight up lie. He was repeatedly lauding Putin four years *after* MH17 and the invasion of Crimea

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Rik de Ruiter @rikderuiter1978.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

With this European Council agenda for the next two days (www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...) and the new Eerdmans motion (passed) of 18 March 2025 (www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/do...), the Dutch prime minister is going to have a difficult time in the Dutch Lower House, again.

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Rik de Ruiter @rikderuiter1978.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Last week's political crisis in the Netherlands on EU defense plans are part of a 're-parliamentarisarion of the EU': every time the EU faces a crisis, the heads of government come together, national parliaments organise debates, resulting in media attention. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/03/scho...

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Schoof can press ahead with EU defence talks, cabinet agrees - DutchNews.nl

Prime minister Dick Schoof has won acceptance for a €3.5 billion package of extra military support for Ukraine and “room” to vote in favour of the European Commission’s €800 billion project to rearm E...

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