Late last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague detected and contained a “new, sophisticated and targeted” cybersecurity incident, marking the second major breach in under two years. The attack came at a sensitive time, as The Hague hosted the NATO summit and local Dutch authorities reported a series of related distributed denial-of-service [...]

On Wednesday, at the NATO summit in The Hague, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez formally rejected the alliance’s newly agreed aspirational guideline for member states to increase defense spending to 5% of national GDP by 2035. In a carefully negotiated compromise, NATO permitted Spain to endorse the summit’s joint communiqué with a subtle but significant [...]

Earlier this month, Dutch Member of Parliament Kati Piri (GroenLinks–PvdA) introduced a parliamentary motion calling for a complete arms embargo on Israel, including a suspension of defense-related exports such as those contributing to the Iron Dome system. Although the motion was ultimately rejected by the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer), its contents and rationale [...]