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Considered alongside Marsman's main influences, Sontag's essay and The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes is an important, provocative volume in the annals of literature and medicine. The chondrosarcoma, or cancer of the cartilage, writes 27-year old Marsman, is “a malignant tumour in my upper back, 8 × 9 × 10 cm in size. In 2018, writes Marsman, the Dutch government “made the decision to grant 1·4 billion euros to multinationals like Shell and Unilever each and every year without a single acceptable explanation”.

How many years will it take until Europe can defend itself without America's protection? The director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, Rachel Ellehuus, examines the strengths and weaknesses of European military capabilities, in an interview with our defence editor, Shashank Joshi

Politics in the Shadow of COVID-19: Parliamentary Election in the Kingdom of the Netherlands On March 15-17, 2021, the first parliamentary elections in the European Union during the pandemic took place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The political authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands decided to hold the elections despite severe sanitary restrictions and curfew. On January 15, 2021, the outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, chairman of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), handed over the resignation of the entire government to the King. The immediate cause was the report of the parliamentary investigative commission announced in December 2020 on the extremely restrictive operation of local tax offices in connection with government child benefits. Mark Rutte has been running the country efficiently since 2010 and was also a favorite in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The elections were conducted without any disturbances. 37 parties were admitted to elections, the largest number in the post-war history of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The election winners were ruling party VVD party and progressive liberals from D’66. The discussion on the formation of the new government has already started and is accompanied by great emotions. It is going to be a long period of negotiations and their results are difficult to be predicted. The article presents the main actors of this parliamentary game.