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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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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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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English summary: Militarisation of security – Inventory of Dutch companies
Militarisering van security – Een inventarisatie van Nederlandse bedrijven
Since 9/11 the security market has grown immensely. On Homeland Security alone the…
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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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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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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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