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PROFILE/ Mark Rutte, the new Secretary General of NATO, rides a bicycle and plays the piano!

2024-06-21 09:26:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
PROFILE/ Mark Rutte, the new Secretary General of NATO, rides a bicycle and
Mark Rutte

Rutte's right-wing liberal VVD party considered his asylum policy soft. The fragile four-party governing coalition failed.

New elections followed, won by the far-right Geert Wilders. Mark Rutte could no longer prevent this posting to the right. This was the biggest political defeat in his life.

On July 2, he finally stepped down as prime minister. For almost a year, he continued to serve as commissioner, due to difficulties with the creation of the government in the Netherlands.

A very brief retreat from politics

That he wanted to retire from politics, Mark Rutte had already forgotten this in October last year. He hinted that he now aims for the post of Secretary General of NATO.

For months, he developed a discreet individual electoral campaign among the heads of state and government, whom he had known for years from various international forums. As a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and one of the most ardent supporters of Ukraine, the 57-year-old with a degree in history managed to convince first the US and then most of the other allies.

To convince the intimate European enemy Viktor Orban he needed a longer time. In order to win the trust of the right-wing conservative, Hungarian Prime Minister Mark Rutte had to promise him that during his tenure in NATO, Hungary would never be asked to participate in the alliance's activities on Ukraine abroad. NATO territory.

Arms supplies are also ruled out by the Russian-leaning Orbani. The Dutch liberal and the Hungarian illiberal have often clashed in the EU.

In 2021, Mark Rutte openly slapped Viktor Orban in the face, telling him that if he doesn't like the EU, he should leave. Orbán then issued a law hostile to the LGBTQ+ community in Hungary.

Mark Rutte to this day has often caught the eye for his good humor and free expressions. HE used to travel by bicycle from his modest apartment in The Hague to the Prime Minister. As a talented pianist he once played on a piano placed in the public square in front of the train station in The Hague.

As Secretary General of NATO, he will have to somehow restrain himself and be more diplomatic. His main task will be to balance the interests of the 32 member countries of the alliance and provide it with a unique presentation from abroad. His predecessor, Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, was a stoic master in this regard.

"Stick to your message", is the recipe for the communicative success of NATO's chief diplomat.

"True leadership requires the ability to listen and understand different perspectives," Mark Rutte once said during a speech. This is a possible motto for the NATO post. "He is a successful crisis manager," says journalist Sheila Sitalsing about Mark Rutte. The commentator of "Volkskrant" has written a biography about the prime minister with a record mandate. .

Many Dutch people for a long time were satisfied with the stability that Mark Rutte guaranteed, despite the changes of majorities in the parliament, during the financial crisis or during the COVID pandemic

Rutte knows how to find Trump's strings

If in the USA Donald Trump will be elected president again and will target NATO, Mark Rutte is prepared. He managed to establish a good relationship with Trump during his first term. Even Donald Trump calls him a friend, although the liberal prime minister of the trade nation, the Netherlands, has strongly rejected the economic policy of the Republican Trump./ DW


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