Monsoon and Dutch military sales to South Asia
…license NL0074CDIU0127901 of December 27, 2019). We know about the sales thanks to a article on the ships and their capabilities by Jane’s (a major publishing house on military matters)….
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Rotterdam hosts Frontex conference on virtual wall
…to get across the borders as quickly and as smoothly as possible, while potential ‘unwanted’ migrants have to be detected, controlled and refused. There are many concerns about the racist…
Who benefits from EU military and security funding?
…out more about the updated data platform, which aggregates this information under an accessible and user-friendly format, covering all the beneficiaries of EU military and civil security funding since 2007…
Ukraine, arms, militarism and climate crisis
…discussion about combat aircraft started immediately. Switzerland is one of the few European countries that (until now) sticks to the principled position not to supply arms to a country at…
Israeli arms exports, imports and military cooperation with the Netherlands
…of about 680,000 7.62mm bullets from Israel to the United States, passing the Dutch harbour of Rotterdam in September 2020. In February 2021, the Dutch government provided a transit license…
How the EU has used the war in Ukraine to expand its border regime
…emerged in the wake of the war. People fleeing Ukraine were received with warm meals, blankets, and provided with shelter, whereas further north along the Polish-Belarussian border people fleeing wars in Afghanistan,…
Who stops the decline of arms export transparency?
…a line now says: “After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the government decided, with a view to (operational) security, to communicate less openly about military goods supplied to Ukraine. During…
Consequense of militarism in Egypt for climate activism
…Egypt, in the youth climate camp in september in Tunesia. https://www.climatejusticecamp.com/ The COP27 coalition, still in infancy, is struggling with the difficult discussion about human rights in Egypt, how to…
Some insights into COP 28: What is happening on the ground?
…us about their efforts to move military issues up the climate agenda, and to foreground demilitarisation as a strategy for climate justice. Dec.8 2023 18.00 GST (Dubai) 09.00 EST (East…
The dirty arms money boom
…to look at a longer time span and include the past, to grasp a dynamic that does not depend only on specific conflict situations. One should not be mistaken about…