Benelux Cooperation Accord Includes Giving Up Some National Rights

April 27 2012

Netherlands

The Netherlands Ministry of Defense has provided more details on a defense cooperation agreement signed last week with Belgium and Luxembourg.

The agreement calls for: more joint training; sharing airfields; the Belgian and Dutch navies will increase their combined operations; and Belgian and Dutch paratroopers will cooperate more, according to a ministry release.

There is a price for this, with governments relinquishing some control over their own militaries under the...

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