Path clear for Rutte as new NATO chief

According to media reports, they may soon be seeing more of each other: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who is still in office, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Now that Hungary and Slovakia have given up their opposition to Mark Rutte, his election as the new NATO Secretary General looks very certain. Dutch radio reports that his only opponent will withdraw.

The Dutch public broadcaster NOS reports that Mark Rutte, who is still Prime Minister of the Netherlands, will become the new Secretary General of NATO. NOS reports that Rutte’s only remaining opponent for the post – Romanian President Klaus Iohannis – will soon withdraw. This would clear the final hurdle for Rutte – because the election to NATO chief must be unanimous among all 32 members of the military alliance.

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