{"id":260862,"date":"2022-11-07T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260862"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:23:48","slug":"holland-becomes-first-european-country-to-withdraw-sanctions-against-russia-without-permission-from-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260862","title":{"rendered":"Holland becomes first European country to withdraw sanctions against Russia, without permission from EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange Sounds \u2013 Nov 6, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Wow! Holland has said enough is enough!<\/p>\n

They become the first European country to withdraw sanctions against Russia, without permission from EU.<\/p>\n

This is the first example we see of a European country acting in the best interest of their own country.<\/p>\n

Now who is next?<\/p>\n

The Dutch government has issued 91 waivers from sanctions against Russia since the country invaded Ukraine late in February, RTL Nieuws reports after talking to the Ministries. The ministries shielded the names of the companies involved, the value of transactions which were exempted, and the business sectors concerned.<\/p>\n

The information was \u201ccompany-sensitive,\u201d according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs, Finance, Infrastructure, and Education are allowed to grant exemptions to sanctions to \u201callow a degree of flexibility in specific cases,\u201d the spokesperson affirmed.<\/p>\n

In April, the European Union banned ships sailing under the Russian flag from European ports. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management issued waivers so 34 ships could access Dutch ports, for example, because they carried important cargo like aluminum and food.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiplomatic relations\u201d was stated as the reason why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs granted one exemption, the broadcaster reported. In the isolated case, transactions which involved Russian banks majority held by the State were permitted to occur.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Finance granted 13 additional waivers related to frozen assets or goods that fall under the sanctions regime.<\/p>\n

The Ministry for Climate and Energy, which falls under Economic Affairs, issued 25 waivers for Dutch organizations to still get energy from former Gazprom companies. The waivers help 150 companies and organizations, including municipalities, schools, and water boards, the Ministry said to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, which falls under Foreign Affairs, issued 18 waivers to 13 organizations on \u201chumanitarian grounds\u201d for cooperation between the EU and Russia on \u201cpurely civilian matters.\u201d Foreign Affairs issued one waiver so a company could receive another payment from Russia. [RTLNieuws<\/a>, NLTimes<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Western Europe\u2019s united front over sanctions on Russia begins to falter. As the Netherlands issues 91 exemptions on companies and organisations from abiding by the EU \u2018s sanctions mandate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":260864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260863,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260862\/revisions\/260863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}