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Ukraine has been waiting for almost a month for American approval for the delivery of crucial Patriot missiles, while President Zelensky has instructed his Ministry of Defense and Foreign Affairs to raise this issue with the U.S. Secretary of Defense. #Oekraïne #PatriotRaketten #Oorlog (translated)

The company Anthropic is being sued for allegedly using 274 songs by Elvis Presley without permission for the training of its AI models, which has led to a compensation claim of 41 million dollars by Authentic Brands Group, the organization that owns the rights to the music and the image of the artist. #DroitsDAuteur #ElvisPresley #IntelligenceArtificielle (translated)

Finland: The company Posiva has received permission from the Finnish government to operate 'Onkalo', the world's first permanent storage facility for used nuclear fuel, located in Eurajoki and designed to safely store hazardous radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years. #DéchetsNucléaires #StockagePermanent #Finlande (translated)

Wagensveld wrote that he had been arrested three times within a few weeks after the mayor imposed restrictions on the content of his demonstration at the last minute. According to him, it had been registered and approved in advance with a megaphone and a Quran as demonstration materials. He stated that during a conversation with the police, about 20 minutes before arriving at the location, no restrictions were mentioned. Upon arrival, he was required to hand over the Quran due to potential disturbances, even though there was no counter-demonstration or unrest and he had not yet shown the Quran visibly. The demonstration had not yet begun. At one of the arrests, he claimed he offered to leave, but that was only permitted if he handed over the Quran. Wagensveld reported that he was held for six hours and interrogated all three times. According to him, there was no prosecution. A fourth attempt to demonstrate ultimately did go ahead. He asserted that he and his supporters would keep returning until they received their rights. He described the arrests as an abuse of power intended to intimidate people and limit demonstrations based on their content. Wagensveld wrote that leftist activists and Islamists could express slogans that others found offensive, and that he supported their right to do so. According to him, officials were trying to restrict that same freedom for dissenters. He wondered why the Minister of Justice and Security apparently approved of that. #Demonstratierecht #VrijheidVanMeningsuiting #Rechtsstaat #Demonstratierecht #VrijheidVanMeningsuiting #Rechtsstaat (translated)

Owen wrote that an Israeli journalist should have asked the police for permission to question demonstrators. According to Owen, the journalist tried to do so but left within a minute because the demonstrators made his work impossible. The post contained hashtags relating to AZ and Alkmaar. https://t.co/b2aFiDDzwx #Israël #journalistiek #demonstraties (translated)

Max von Kreyfelt wrote in a column that Dutch bureaucracy, according to him, was slowing down the work of people who create things and maintained a large system of assessors, advisors, and task forces. He suggested that housing construction and entrepreneurship were facing more and more procedures, while shortages of skilled workers were being addressed with new task forces. He also wrote that citizens had to first demonstrate that they could survive financially before they were allowed to start a business, and that construction plans had to go through participation and policy procedures. He argued that people with the right contacts could navigate the system more easily and that mistakes made by officials were treated differently than those made by citizens. Those who asked questions were told, according to him, that trust in institutions needed to be restored, with a campaign funded by taxpayers. Von Kreyfelt referred to a warning from Ayn Rand and wrote that, in his view, the Netherlands was enabling fewer people to create things while more and more people were explaining why decisions were made carefully. He also mentioned that his collection was for sale and asked readers to support him. https://t.co/V2P6pFuNy1 #Nederland #overheid #ondernemen (translated)

Pepijn van Houwelingen wrote that, according to him, an unknown part of the cabinet's policy was determined by binding NATO resilience targets that were secret from the House of Representatives. He referred to a research article by Marit Nubé, in which, according to the fragment he cited, it stated that the Netherlands could not disclose the targets without NATO's permission. Defense had informed NieuwRechts that no formal permission had ever been requested for that and that the cabinet also had no plans to do so. In response to the question of whether the targets had been shared confidentially with a parliamentary committee, the ministry had answered, according to the fragment: "No." #NAVO #politiek #transparantie (translated)

With the different regulations in the municipalities, the current firework ban in the Netherlands proves to be untenable, as 261 out of 342 municipalities do not grant permission for the use of fireworks during the upcoming New Year’s celebration. #Vuurwerkverbod #CategorieF1 #Gemeenten (translated)

Carel Brendel asked Femke Halsema if the arrival of the motorcycle gang was known and whether permission had been requested for the parade, which he described as fascist. If that permission had been granted, he wanted to know why; if it had not been, he asked why the police had not intervened. #FemkeHalsema #Motorbende #Politie (translated)