Johan Mostertman, with whom she worked closely, can still see exactly how Hollander addressed the House of Representatives in 2018. Without a trace of doubt and with enormous involvement, she warned of possible aggression. ‘I hope you will never experience it, but I can very well imagine that if your children are knowingly threatened, you … Read more
Debate in brief: – A large part of the opposition has lost confidence in Prime Minister Mark Rutte. But coalition parties VVD, D66, ChristenUnie and CDA closed ranks and supported the prime minister, despite their sometimes visible discomfort about the prime minister’s attitude. – Prime Minister Rutte makes it clear from the start that he … Read more
The debate in a nutshell: – The opposition is extremely critical of the role of the Prime Minister. From the start of the debate, the parties aimed their arrows at Mark Rutte. ‘Why isn’t he getting up? And what are all the apologies to Groningen worth?’, they wonder. – Several MPs fall over the Prime … Read more
More problems after reinforcement Research by the University of Groningen shows that more Groningen residents continue to have complaints once their reinforcement process has been completed. Earthquake coach Melanie Postma also sees this in practice. Postma works for the municipality of Groningen and helps victims. ‘People struggle with all sorts of things once they’ve completed … Read more
More problems after reinforcement Research by the University of Groningen shows that more Groningen residents continue to have complaints once their reinforcement process has been completed. Earthquake coach Melanie Postma also sees this in practice. Postma works for the municipality of Groningen and helps victims. ‘People struggle with all sorts of things once they’ve completed … Read more
Yanbolluoglu gets emotional when she talks about the Turkish aid, or rather the lack of it, as she says herself. ‘From AFAD (the disaster and emergency relief management of the Turkish government, ed.) No one came to help at all. I called them for days and asked for help, but nothing happened. In the end … Read more
The intervention team examined 27 cases in its first year. Eleven of these have been completed and sixteen are still being processed. The municipality of Eemsdelta (eleven files) is the main supplier when it comes to files that have come to a standstill. The other stalled cases are in Oldambt (five), Het Hogeland (four), Midden-Groningen … Read more
Where does LNG come from?LNG mainly comes from areas where large amounts of natural gas have been discovered, such as the US, North Africa, the Middle East and the West Indies. Examples of LNG producing countries are Russia, Norway, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Oman, Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia. With seven terminals that can receive LNG, … Read more
‘In that meeting I got the feeling that I was expected to write down my results in a different way’, Postmes explains to the committee of inquiry. ‘That person thought it was very important that we make it clear in our report that those were really two very different things. And he was physically intimidating. … Read more
The interrogations started today at 10:00 am with Herman de Muinck, who lived above the Groningen gas bubble in Slochteren for 35 years. Sijbrand Nijhoff and Susan Top were also interrogated. In 2018, horse farmer Nijhoff from Zijldijk made public the secret agreement from 1963 in which the cooperation between the government and the oil … Read more