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29 March 2008

Support for Chad Mission is Support for Neocolonialism

As long as the neocolonial role played by the French in Chad persists, Dutch support for the EU military operation there is bad policy, says Ewout Irrgang, Member of Parliament and spokesman on development issues for the SP.

28 March 2008

SP: Cabinet must stand up to EU industry lobby (update)

The Cabinet must call for a halt to the excessive influence exercised by corporate business in the drafting of European legislation. In a series of parliamentary questions, SP Member of Parliament and European Affairs spokesman Harry van Bommel today called on the government to resist corporate influence at EU level.

28 March 2008

US Troop Reduction in Iraq All for Show

It was five years ago that the Americans and British invaded Iraq. The US policy has been conducted with growing support from the Netherlands. Given the results, a change of course is urgently needed, in the opinion of Harry van Bommel, MP.

27 March 2008

Keep 'chlorine chickens' out of Europe

European Commissioner Gunter Verheugen wants to allow American "chlorine chickens" on to the European market in order to improve EU-US trade relations. SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard disagrees, and today put a series of written questions on the issue to the Commission. "Public health should never take a back seat to trade interests," she says.

27 March 2008

Offer an escape route from suffering, not from life

Agnes Kant, SP member of Parliament and spokeswoman on health care issues

25 March 2008

SP: ‘Support for a EUFOR mission dominated by France makes no sense’

In Chad and the Central African Republic, the Netherlands would be better offering support to a neutral UN intervention than to a European mission, as long as the detrimental role played by the French in the region continues, SP Member of Parliament and development spokesman Ewout Irrgang will say in today's parliamentary debate on the proposed mission.

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