The video conference including finance and economy ministers from Poland, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands followed ridicule from U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration over the time it takes the 27-country European Union to make decisions.

“As six major economies in Europe, we now want to be the drivers,” German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said after the call. “We are providing momentum; others can join. What matters is strengthening our competitiveness and our defence capability.”

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/germany-hold-call-with-select-eu-states-push-twospeed-europe-2026-01-28/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPnSdJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEenFKC8GKWoud4oFejn2DNEKIDRw_zvGgcpniG4xi-aU_MCPA18AK95zWn_YQ_aem_8wM5U_qHUQcTOnYH-hF77g

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The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leaving the Netherlands’ government over its policy for asylum-seekers, its leader Geert Wilders said on Tuesday, toppling the governing coalition.

“I signed up for the strictest asylum policy, not for the downfall of the Netherlands,” Wilders told reporters Tuesday morning. “And our responsibility for this cabinet therefore ends here.”

Wilders’ decision to withdraw support for the most right-leaning government in Dutch history has plunged the country’s politics into chaos. It leaves the government, led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof, with just 51 out of 150 seats in parliament.

Prime Minister Dick Schoof called the decision “unnecessary and irresponsible.” But speaking with reporters after a Tuesday afternoon cabinet meeting, he offered few details on his conversations with Wilders.

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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/europe/netherlands-government-collapse-geert-wilders-intl

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Alan Estevez, the U.S. export policy chief, is visiting both countries this week as part of attempts to expand a 2023 agreement between the three countries to keep chipmaking equipment from China that could help to modernise its military.

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The “Hope, courage and pride” agreement introduces strict measures on asylum seekers, scraps family reunification for refugees and seeks to reduce the number of international students studying in the country.

“Deport people without a valid residence permit as much as possible, even forcibly,” the 26-page document says.

“We are writing history today,” Wilders proclaimed, saying he had made sure the three other coalition parties, including the one of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, had accepted the core of his program.

“The sun will shine again in the Netherlands,” Wilders said. “It is the strongest asylum policy ever.”

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-government-radical-right-immigration-wilders-77ff99e0798d54d150d320706a685a38

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Dutch coalition talks will move on from exploratory discussions to more concrete negotiations aimed at forming a largely technocratic government, after the far-right leader Geert Wilders accepted he could not be prime minister.

Four months after Wilders’ anti-Islam Freedom party (PVV) became the largest in parliament, Kim Putters, the former socialist senator overseeing the talks, said they would continue based on a cabinet of political veterans and outside experts.

In a keenly awaited report released on Thursday, Putters said the four parties involved – PVV, the liberal-conservative VVD, the agrarian BBB and the centre-right newcomer NSC – had agreed to pursue an “extra-parliamentary” government.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/formation-dutch-government-advances-far-right-wilders-admits-cant-be-pm

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It is the first time the Netherlands has publicly attributed cyber espionage to China, as national security tensions grow between the two countries.

“It is important to ensure that espionage activities of this nature committed by China become public knowledge since this will help to increase international resilience to this type of cyber espionage,” Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said.

The agencies, known by their Dutch acronyms MIVD and AIVD, said the hackers had placed malicious software, or malware, that cloaked its own activity inside an armed forces network used by 50 people for unclassified research.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/china-cyber-spies-hacked-computers-dutch-defence-ministry-report-2024-02-06/

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The rule change requires the government to modify an existing protocol, without the need for parliamentary approval.

In a letter to the Dutch Parliament, Kuipers insisted that assisted dying will be possible “when it is the only reasonable alternative for a doctor to end the desperate and unbearable suffering of the child.”

“This is a very complex subject that deals with harrowing situations that you would not wish on anyone,” Kuipers said. “I am pleased that after intensive consultation with all parties involved, we have come to a solution with which we can help these terminally-ill children, their parents, and also their practitioners,” he added.

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Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/04/16/dutch-gov-t-to-extend-euthanasia-option-to-children-aged-1-to-12

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SHANGHAI MICRO ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT (SMEE)

SMEE is China’s only producer of lithography machines used in semiconductor manufacturing, making it the country’s only potential competitor to the Netherlands’ world-leading lithography machine maker ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS). However, it remains well behind ASML and Japanese peers.

It has developed machines capable of producing chips at the 90 nanometre node standard, its website showed. That technology was perfected roughly 20 years ago and is sufficient for low-end chips useful for some power-management purposes.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-chipmaking-equipment-manufacturers-filling-void-left-by-us-export-2023-03-06/

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