Mark Rutte

Mark Rutte appears in roughly 2 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are up 35.5% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -0.16 — mildly negative.

Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician who has served as the 14th secretary general of NATO since October 2024. He previously served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024 and leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from 2006 to 2023. Serving a total of almost 14 years, Rutte is the longest-serving prime minister in Dutch history.

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Also covered as: Rutte · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
2
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+35.5%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-0.16
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Mark Rutte mentions per day: 91 days, latest 2.00 on 2026-08-200.0025005000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Mark Rutte coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.16 on 2026-08-20+50-5May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Mark Rutte: 89 days, latest 547.00 on 2026-08-180.001250025000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).