Power fights in the European arms industry
Friedensforum, autumn 2012 by Wendela de Vries — In the same week the Nobel Peace prize was rewarded to the European Union,…
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Stop Wapenhandel (Stop Arms Trade) is a group of independent researchers and activists on arms trade, the arms industry and lobbying. Stop Wapenhandel advocates sustainable security, not based on military power and deterrence but on solving the causes of insecurity.
Stop Wapenhandel is part of the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) and the Arms, Militarism and Climate Justice working group.
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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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European arms trade, controlled but not restricted
After the United States the European Union is the biggest global arms exporter. Therefore a good European arms export policy will contribute…
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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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Country Report for the ENAAT meeting in Berlin, June 2012
Over the past year we have been busy with a number of issues, with the main ones listed below.
Outreach
EADS:
For…
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Report on the Netherlands for ENAAT, Helsinki June 2011
The Campagne tegen Wapenhandel still consists of 3 people: Mark Akkerman and Wendela de Vries in Amsterdam, Frank Slijper in Groningen. We…
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Dutch State Secretary Receives KRG Anfal Minister
21/06/2012, Wladimir van Wilgenburg (rudaw.net). LONDON, England – On Tuesday, the Kurdistan Region’s Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs Aram Ahmed visited…
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