D66 stands for a strong country and a strong Europe. In order to achieve that we need strong and meaningful cooperation with countries within and outside of Europe. D66 believes in stronger EU-Ukraine cooperation. Safer outer borders...
The Netherlands is preparing itself for a political novelty: on April 6, for the first time in history, a referendum will take place that has become obligatory, after more than 400,000 Dutchmen signed an online petition demanding the use...
The Dutch referendum is aimed to help Russia discredit Ukraine and convince people in Europe not to support it, Hans Ramaekers, President of the Kyiv – the Netherlands Business Club wrote in an open letter on Facebook. Ramaekers...
At the age of twenty-five I became a prisoner in a KGB prison. A Soviet judge found me then, in 1972, to be a dangerous criminal of the State, and sent me for seven years to a camp with strict regime and three years of exile in Siberia....
Two months to go until the Dutch referendum on the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. Two months, and the Dutch population will have to vote on a detailed agreement that is so long, detailed and complex that only...
For the past twenty-five years I have been working in Ukraine, mainly in the field of mental health care reform and the defense of human rights. During the same twenty-five years, as a Dutch citizen, I voted for the political party D’66,...
It definitely was not the most pleasant sight, watching how MP Oleh Barna grabbed Prime-Minister Yatseniuk by the crotch and tried to carry him off the stage. What followed was a fistfight among parliamentarians, and before the day was...
Hans Ramaekers is President of the Kyiv – the Netherlands Business Club. Since 2014, the Club has been assisting Ukrainian companies in entering European markets, the Dutch one in particular. Ramaekers has lived in Ukraine for over 5...
It was the delay of the Association agreement with the EU by ex-president Yanukovych in November 2013 that triggered the Euromaidan Revolution. Two years later, a referendum scheduled to take place in the Netherlands could put Ukraine’s...
Political life in The Netherlands has been in crisis for the past fifteen years, yet the other day a new bottom seems to have been reached. A populist group of “concerned citizens” has collected sufficient signatures to enforce an...
History weaponized Just as heavily armored “little green men” invaded and occupied Crimea, and Russian tanks entered eastern Ukraine to wage war against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, another silent front opened in the classrooms of...
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