Dutch Foreign Minister stays silent on talks with Egypt over detained ASML employee Omar Elshal

Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen is refusing to disclose what he has told Egypt about the detention of Dutch-Egyptian ASML employee Omar Elshal, even as pressure mounts on The Hague to step up its intervention in the case. The silence comes at a particularly sensitive moment in Dutch-Egyptian relations, with a separate case involving Egyptian national Ahmed Nasser already causing serious diplomatic friction between the two countries.