Ploumen praises Burundian efforts in Somalia
Following a working visit to Burundi, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen commended the ...
New vice-president and justice for the Supreme Court
Mr M.W.C. Feteris will become vice-president of the Supreme Court. Upon recommendation of Minister Opstelten of Security and ...
Ploumen visits Goma camp
‘Since the fighting in the eastern DRC flared up at the end of last year, there has been a shocking increase in sexual violence ...
Timmermans: ‘Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation’
Foreign minister Frans Timmermans has expressed concern at the findings of Bulgaria’s investigation into the deadly attack on a ...
State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport: stepping up efforts to tackle female genital mutilation
Current efforts to tackle the practice of female genital mutilation, with effective information and the threat of severe ... ...
Netherlands and Rwanda sign air services agreement
The Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, concluded an air services agreement on Wednesday ...
Netherlands to work on restoring water supply in northern Syria
The Netherlands is working with Germany to organise an international conference on restoring Syria’s water supply. The aim is to ...
Netherlands and Denmark want to modernise EU budget
‘The EU multi-annual budget for 2014 to 2020 needs to contribute to economic growth to make Europe more competitive in a changing ...
Ploumen: human rights defenders in Congo need protection
Emergency workers and human rights defenders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must be protected, says Lilianne ...
Lilianne Ploumen pays working visit to Africa’s Great Lakes region
Lilianne Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, is to embark on Monday on a four-day working visit to ...