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...Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister who is the frontrunner to become Nato’s next secretary-general, said he believed European members of the alliance were prepared to provide funds to acquire air defence...
...Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has indicated that EU leaders will give the green light to open accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, if outstanding reforms are implemented....
...Irish voters can mark International Women’s Day on Friday and Mother’s Day on Sunday with constitutional changes regarding women’s role in society, writes Jude Webber....
...Bland and non-ideological: Simon Kuper explains why Dutch premier Mark Rutte is the frontrunner to hold together the conflicting interests inside Nato....
...“International relations are part of a ‘repeated game’: weaponising a currency inevitably reduces its attractiveness and encourages the emergence of alternatives,” he told an event in Riga to mark the 10th...
...“I do believe we have to come to an agreement today with the 27 including Hungary and I am cautiously optimistic that we can,” said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte....
...Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte squashed the proposal at the outset. He used an early intervention at the leaders’ summit to voice his country’s opposition to the idea....
...Dutch premier Mark Rutte said: “I do believe we have to come to an agreement today with the 27, including Hungary, and I’m cautiously optimistic that we can.”...
...It was the death of a baby at an overcrowded reception centre for asylum seekers in the Netherlands last year that convinced Prime Minister Mark Rutte that Europe was once again grappling with a migrant...
...Last night the CDU bigwigs dined in Berlin, and this morning they will formally mark their cards with von der Leyen’s name. The news will be made official just after midday....
...officials are also quietly confident that number could tick up further by the end of the year, especially given the potential for spending announcements at July’s Nato summit in Washington, which will mark...
...Moules frites Moules were on the menu for outgoing Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford on his trip to Brussels yesterday, but sadly not to eat....
...The event, with attendees including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will be the latest attempt to gather momentum, two days after a G7 meeting...
...Dodik staged a celebration on January 9 to mark the 1992 declaration of independence by the Bosnian Serbs that led to civil war....
...The comments mark a strong show of support from the US for European plans to access more than €200bn of Russian central bank assets immobilised in Europe in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine...
...The authors, who also include Czech, Estonian and Dutch premiers Petr Fiala, Kaja Kallas and Mark Rutte, say “our ability to continue to support and sustain Ukraine’s defence . . . is a matter of our common...
...But the final word for now goes to incumbent Mark Rutte. When asked whether he would still be in charge at the next EU leaders’ summit in February, his laughing reply was: “Highly likely.”...
...“There is a big question mark whether the country will be able to sustain itself for the following months or even weeks,” said Meddeb....
...Additional reporting by Laura Dubois and Javier Espinoza in Brussels, Marton Dunai in Budapest and Max Seddon in London...
...German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosts outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Berlin....
Granting of requests marks first step in significant upgrade of Kyiv’s military capabilities
...The decision marks the first approval by the US to re-export its fighter jets from third countries to Ukraine....
...Tunisian president Kais Saied signed a memorandum of understanding with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and the Dutch and Italian prime ministers, Mark Rutte and Giorgia Meloni, in Tunis...
...Although calm has been restored, the French president has decided not to speak publicly as leaders usually do to mark today’s Bastille Day celebration....
...Thus, while some more enlargement-sceptic EU capitals will be surprised to hear that Kyiv is so close to receiving full marks in the assessment, parts of Ukraine’s government were instead stung by what they...
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