Nobel Peace Prize laureate boosts arms exports to the Middle East, despite or thanks to Arab spring
The European Union’s arms exports rose by 18 percent in 2011 and most of it is for the Middle East. This is…
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Arms trade promotion compensating for declining domestic demand
With military budgets declining or frozen in most of Europe, arms producers are increasingly looking abroad to fill their shrinking order books.…
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Dutch ships assist Honduras in escalating war on drugs
Honduras is currently building up its naval forces, reportedly to counter international drugs trafficking. A stronger naval force would also help the…
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EADS claiming its place in rapidly expanding cyber warfare market
Behind the scenes of the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip a cyber war has also been going on. Israeli hackers…
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Dutch pension funds boost investments in nuke producers
“Some say nuclear disarmament is utopian… I say the illusion is that nuclear weapons provide security”, said United Nations Secretary General Ban…
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The unwanted JSF swamp and the new Dutch cabinet
Soon after the 12 September parliamentary elections in the Netherlands the two largest parties, VVD [liberal/conservative] and PvdA [social democrat], started talking…
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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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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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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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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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