Prime Minister Mark Rutte praised NATO on Thursday 3 October in a speech to the Netherlands Atlantic Association, in The Hague.
"We need NATO (...) There is no alternative. The Netherlands, Europe - we cannot guarantee our own security", he explained.
Recalling that the future President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had stated that the EU's collective security policy was unthinkable without NATO, he echoed the latter's words: "We will remain transatlantic and we must...