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It must become more difficult for parties to win seats in the House of Representatives. Former education minister Jo Ritzen and a group of like-minded people have started a petition for the introduction of an electoral threshold. Parties that do not win enough votes in elections to win at least three seats in the House of Representatives should now be …

11 dec 2022 om 15:39Update: 5 uur geleden Four suspects arrested in the Brussels region on Friday for allegations of corruption in the European Parliament (EP) have been sentenced to stay longer in their cells by the judge. The four detainees are suspected of belonging to a criminal organization, corruption and money laundering. The case concerns alleged bribes by “a …

APE ONS News•yesterday, 4:50 p.m.•Amended yesterday, 8:55 p.m. In a major corruption investigation the Belgian police also sealed off the offices of the employees of two Belgian MEPs. The investigation, which has been going on since July, was revealed yesterday after a series of house searches. Belgian justice suspects an unnamed Gulf state of corruption. According to Belgian media, it …

European Film Academy Media Services ONS News•today, 00:31 The European Film Award for the best European animated film is not awarded to the Dutchman Knor. This was announced on Saturday evening during the European Film Awards, the EFAs, in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik. The stop motion animation Knor is about the daughter Babs, who receives the Knor pig from her …

10 dec 2022 om 15:34Update: 5 uur geleden Vice-President Nicola Beer of the European Parliament (EP) is shocked by the corruption scandal involving her colleague Eva Kaili, she reported on Saturday. On Friday, Belgian media reported that Kaili was implicated in Qatar’s corruption. The Gulf state is said to have bribed the aides of MEPs in order to influence the …

AFP ONS News•today, 08:36 Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for fraud. He is also fined around a quarter of a million euros for allegedly falsifying the leases of his companies. Lai, 75, owned the now defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. He was already serving a 20-month sentence after …

A 46-year-old senator from Arizona has announced she is an independent member of the Senate effective immediately. Kyrsten Sinema says national parties, with their rigid bureaucracy and silos, sow division and thus lose touch with the voter. Even the constitution is in danger, she says. She therefore breaks with the Democratic Party, but argues that this should not be a …

NOS/Stefan Heijdendael and NOS/Gonnie Spijkstra ONS News•today, 13:19 Lucas Waagmeester and Karina ter Horst will be the two new deputy editors of NOS News. This means that the editor-in-chief of NOS News will be fully staffed again from the beginning of next year. Ter Horst (55) is head of NOS op 3 and will take up his post on February …

Reuters ONS News•yesterday, 22:41 Peruvian President Pedro Castillo is in jail until at least Tuesday, the South American country’s Supreme Court has ruled. Castillo, 53, who was impeached yesterday by the Peruvian parliament, was sentenced to seven days in pre-trial detention. The scheme took effect retroactively, yesterday counts as the first day. Castillo was charged with “rebellion”, among other things. …

08 dec 2022 om 17:42 Refugees are locked up in secret places on the external borders of Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria, according to research carried out, among others Lighthouse reports. The most basic facilities are lacking on the premises, let alone that people get a fair trial. The pitches are co-financed by the European Union. Although rumors of lawless detention …