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14 september 2012

Wedding of the elephants: merger between BAE and EADS in the making

Europe’s two biggest arms companies, British BAE Systems and German/French/Spanish EADS announced that they are negotiating a merger, or an ‘elephants wedding’…

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6 september 2012

Dutch engineers take India’s warship building into “a new era”

Maritime relations between India and the Netherlands have existed since the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was allowed to set up a…

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18 juli 2012

Released Dutch arms sales contract reveals special role of Parliament

The normal procedure for arms export licences in the Netherlands is that export officials decide whether to grant one or not, following…

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4 juli 2012

Seeing in the dark

Over the past decades Dutch night vision equipment has been sold to military, police and security forces in dozens of countries across…

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13 juni 2012

Trade and aid: yet another Dutch warship for Indonesia

Last week the Indonesian Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Dutch shipbuilder Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) for a so-called SIGMA…

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6 juni 2012

Turkish authorities cannot find Dutch nuclear proliferator

In October 2003 the German-registered ship BBC China was boarded and searched in the Italian port of Taranto in a joint US–UK–Germany–Italy…

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22 mei 2012

Arms fairs and the footprint of EADS

Arms fairs are the oil that keeps the arms trade machine running. International exhibitions are the ideal show for anything the military…

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7 mei 2012

EADS sells big to Indonesian Air Force

“A possible embargo has always been a reason for the TNI [Indonesian armed forces] to feel worried when it wants to procure…

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20 april 2012

Arms deal with Thailand a novelty in reporting

Last week the Dutch government introduced a novelty in its reporting system on arms exports. It sent a letter to Parliament, notifying…

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11 april 2012

Dutch arms exports to China, Turkmenistan and Egypt

The Dutch government is quite transparent in detailing its arms exports – at least, ex post. Licence details are published on the…

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Alles over dit thema

Wedding of the elephants: merger between BAE and EADS in the making

Dutch engineers take India’s warship building into “a new era”

Released Dutch arms sales contract reveals special role of Parliament

Seeing in the dark

Trade and aid: yet another Dutch warship for Indonesia

Turkish authorities cannot find Dutch nuclear proliferator

Arms fairs and the footprint of EADS

EADS sells big to Indonesian Air Force

Arms deal with Thailand a novelty in reporting

Dutch arms exports to China, Turkmenistan and Egypt

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