Fundraisers in the Netherlands
2020-09-23 01:45:08.246552+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Dutch lawmakers demand answers after U.S. ambassador holds party for right-wing populists at embassy. At issue is how clearly it was a fundraiser for the Forum for Democracy (FvD) party.
Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma, a member of parliament and foreign policy spokesman for Democrats 66, a liberal party in the Dutch coalition government, raised the issue at parliament Tuesday and called on the Foreign Ministry to investigate whether Hoekstra had “facilitated a fund raising event for a political party.”
“That would be a violation of the Treaty of Vienna,” Sjoerdsma said in a message to The Washington Post, referring to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations — an international agreement to which the United States and the Netherlands are signatories.