Dozens of ministers in the Netherlands and Belgium synchronize their watches
GHENT (ANP) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte and twelve ministers and state secretaries will travel to Belgium on Tuesday afternoon for consultations with their Belgian colleagues. A foreign visit by such a heavy cabinet delegation is a strange thing.
Rutte and the twelve ministers meet Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and twelve of his government members in the monumental city center of Ghent. De Croo invited them to the Flemish city because of Ghent’s important and historic ties with the Netherlands, says his historic ties.
The fight against transnational crime. But over the meeting hangs the shadow of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Only with the other neighbor Germany and, this spring, with France officially since regular race government. Since 2003, the Netherlands and Belgium have invested the Thalassa-overleg property three times.
Rutte is taking foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra, justice minister Dilan Yesilgöz and climate minister Rob Jetten to Ghent, among others. They will meet separately on Tuesday evening with their Belgian counterparts, to join them on Tuesday evening for joint consultations with the two prime ministers.