Boris Johnson, Covid and Netherlands
Boris Johnson: I planned to invade the Netherlands during Covid
Boris Johnson considered invading the Netherlands to seize Covid vaccines during the height of the pandemic, he has revealed. Writing in his memoirs, to be published next month, the former prime minister said he commissioned the Armed Forces to consider whether an aquatic raid on a warehouse in Leiden was possible.
Ex-UK PM Boris Johnson's secret plot to invade The Netherlands and seize Covid vaccines
Arguably the worst Prime Minister the UK has ever suffered, Boris Johnson has now released a new memoir, in which he happily admits to a 'nuts idea' he dreamt up during his shambolic handling of the C
UK ex-PM Johnson says he planned raid on Dutch factory to get COVID vaccines
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he ordered military chiefs to plan a raid on a Dutch factory in March 2021 to secure 5 million COVID vaccines that the European Union had threatened to bar from being exported to Britain.
Boris Johnson considered invading Holland to seize Covid vaccines
Former prime minister Boris Johnson considered launching an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in the Netherlands to retrieve Covid vaccine doses amid a row with Europe, according to an extract from his memoir.
Boris Johnson no longer sure about 'medieval' lockdowns as ex-PM convinced Covid was 'botched experiment'
Boris Johnson has said he is no longer sure about "medieval" lockdowns as the former Prime Minister becomes increasingly convinced Covid was a "botched experiment" from a Chinese lab. Johnson, 60, described pandemic restrictions as "literally medieval in their savagery and consequences" as he likened himself to King Canute and questioned whether
Mark Rutte's NATO mission: rally West, reassure East, help Ukraine
NATO's next boss, Mark Rutte, will need all the coalition-building skills he honed as Dutch prime minister to hold the ...
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Boris Johnson has just proven he was unfit to be prime minister
For the past five years, I have been in something of a conflict: was Boris Johnson an unconventional but essentially wise ...
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Netherlands announces toughest asylum policy yet
The prime minister of the Netherlands revealed the country's strictest asylum policy yet, noting that Amsterdam would seek an ...
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Cabinet minister expects asylum seeker distribution law to remain for up to 2 years
During a closed-door meeting with representatives from ministries, provinces, municipalities, and the Central Agency for the ...
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NATO gets a new chief -- but don't expect a revolution
Incoming NATO chief Mark Rutte brings new leadership this week to one of the world's most powerful-sounding roles -- helming ...
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Netherlands says it is enacting 'strictest asylum regime ever'
Sept. 13 (UPI) --Saying it "cannot cope" with large number of migrants crossing its border, the Netherlands unveiled strict new anti-immigration measures Friday. Prime Minister Dick Schoof and ...
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How the Dutch Ate Their Prime Minister in 1672
As its name suggests, the Haags Historisch Museum (The Hague Historical Museum) is dedicated to the history of that city in ...
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Who is preventing ICC from arresting Netanyahu?
As ICC officials are threatened not to interfere with Israel's genocide of Palestinians, international justice falters, ...
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Dutch Jews say former prime minister peddles anti-Semitism
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The umbrella group representing Dutch Jewry accused a pro-Palestinian former prime minister of anti-Semitism. The Central Jewish Board of the Netherlands, or CJO, in a ...
Boris Johnson claims Covid originated in lab, in sudden U-turn in his views
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