Vragen aan de CEO’s van EADS
…spends about 550 million on Recearch & Technology, governments add 450 million. Corruption Over the years, the name of EADS has turned up in many corruption investigations, from South Africa…
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Climate change, energy security, conflict and migration: who profits?
…to solar-paneled drones. But we shouldn’t be fooled by this. The military’s primary strategic interest is less about climate change itself and more about the adjacent problems of energy scarcity,…
Netherlands involved in major arms build-up in South Asia
Pakistan buys Dutch warships and military equipment Press Release Groningen, 12 June 2006 Greece is about to sell four formerly Dutch frigates to Pakistan. Greece has previously bought ten warships…
Dutch queen selling frigates to Oman
Woke up this morning with the news that the queen’s highly controversial state visit (now reduced to ‘just a dinner’) to Oman was all about selling frigates to the sultan….
Security concerns in Yemen
…in the war against al-Qaeda. Yemen allowed the United States to bomb an alleged terrorist training camp and was prepared to lie in public about Washington’s involvement. In return the…
Secret meeting place for shady arms conference
Next Thursday (9 June) arms dealers and government officials meet in Amsterdam for the third annual Netherlands Offset Conference. This conference is about orders foreign defence corporations are obliged to…
Frontex – new customer for the arms industry
…step up maritime surveillance. The extra funding and the expanded mandate of Frontex come in response to complaints by member state governments and right-winged politicians about its alleged inefficiency in…
Garage sale for new drones
In a paper with the hilarious title “How to stop the demilitarisation of Europe” former European Defence Agency chief Nick Witney expresses his worries about the cuts in the defence…
EADS sells big to Indonesian Air Force
…a promotional tour around Asia. Human rights and peace activists continue to be concerned about this. In the US, the potential sale of Apache attack helicopters by arms manufacturer Boeing…
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 about the potential for a coalition representing 79…