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It has emerged that two suspected Russian spies were arrested and expelled from the Netherlands earlier this year, after allegedly trying to hack into a Swiss laboratory that tests samples of the deadly nerve agent Novichok.
Rotterdam in the Netherlands is the biggest port in Europe, and a significant amount of its shipping ends up on these shores. In the city the prospect of a no-deal Brexit is alarming a number of businesses.
Thousands of holidaymakers have had their plans thrown into chaos – after hundreds of Ryanair flights had to be cancelled because of strikes by pilots in five countries.
When a former Russian spy and his daughter were found slumped on a park bench in Salisbury, it wasn’t long before investigators started looking at the Kremlin with suspicion. But how strong is the UK’s evidence against Russia? And what do the experts think?
‘It’s NOT about Brexit’ but the consumer goods giant Unilever, one of the largest Footsie companies in the UK, is to move it headquarters to Rotterdam. The Anglo Dutch concern – the maker of hundreds of household names like Marmite, Dove soap and Pot Noodle employs over 7000 people in the UK. The company said…
Severe gales have proved fatal as stormy weather battered Britain and continental Europe. Three people died in the Netherlands as gusts of over 80 miles per hour toppled trees, blew over lorries and ripped off rooves. Here in Britain, fallen trees blocked railway lines and roads and thousands of homes and businesses were left without…
50 children a week are being referred to the UK’s main gender identity clinic, yet only around 25 per cent of young children with gender dysphoria go on to be trans adults. FactCheck looks at the figures.
Gary Gibbon
There’s a bit of diplomatic Jenga going on at this summit. Angela Merkel and others want to extract money, tens of billions of it, from the UK, ideally without toppling Theresa May. So you see tough language from Mark Rutte, head of the newly formed government in the Netherlands, a traditional British ally, spelling out…
Eline Van der Velden, from the Netherlands, and Sean Collins, from Canada, give their reaction to what is happening in British politics.
The ‘Patriotic Spring’ promised by the Dutch anti-immigrant firebrand, Geert Wilders, has failed to flower, as the Netherlands handed election victory to the party of sitting Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He will now try to form a ruling coalition. European leaders applauded the result, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called it ‘a good…
Gary Gibbon
Ruth Davidson and David Mundell spelled out what Theresa May stated a little more opaquely: no referendum this side of Brexit. Forget it.
The polls will close in just under 20 minutes across the Netherlands, in a race that’s pitted the centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte against the populist, anti-immigrant Geert Wilders.
The Turkish President has blamed the Netherlands for the massacre by Serbs of 7,000 Bosnian boys and men in Srebrenica two decades ago, escalating a row between the two countries.
Brexit isn’t Europe’s only headache, as tensions between Turkey and the Netherlands spread beyond their borders. In the last hour, Turkey’s President Erdogan has weighed in again, declaring his ministers will apply to the European human rights court after they were banned from entering the Netherlands to hold rallies.
Gary Gibbon
He praises the Leave side for early preparation and better knowledge of the arguments and for rebuttal speed.