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1 week, 5 days ago

Education Budget: €748 mil. planned cuts scrapped, partly at expense of Health Budtget

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The coalition parties and four opposition parties have reached an agreement on scrapping 748 million euros of the planned cuts to the Education budget and where to find that money instead. Specialists will also face cuts to their “excesses” in salaries, CDA leader Henri Bontenbal said on Wednesday evening, after the deal was reached. We can live with this.” He …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Coalition will drop slow student fine to save education budget

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The right-wing Dutch government is prepared to drop its plans to introduce higher fees for slow students and scrap schemes encouraging youngsters to do community work in order to get the education ministry’s budget for 2025 through parliament, RTL reported on Wednesday afternoon. The four coalition parties and five opposition parties are due to meet later on Wednesday again to …

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Students won’t face late graduation fines as coalition parties bend on education budget

NL Times

The four-party coalition has given a “final offer” to a broad alliance of opposition parties in a last-ditch effort to save its faltering education budget proposal. To win backing for their education budget, a new proposal was submitted to an alliance of centrist and right-wing opposition parties, including D66, CDA, ChristenUnie, SGP, and JA21 on Wednesday afternoon, sources confirmed. CDA …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Schoof urges single deal with opposition to pass budget plans

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Prime minister Dick Schoof has called on the four coalition parties to reach a single agreement with the opposition to address their objections to cuts in education, aid, healthcare spending. Schoof told broadcaster NOS in his weekly interview that he had asked the four coalition parties – PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB – to consolidate all the issues that opposition …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

VVD leader Yeşilgöz criticizes opposition parties amid budget talks

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VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz addressed party members on Saturday at the VVD congress in Den Bosch, where she emphasized the importance of liberalism in countering populism and criticized opposition parties amid ongoing budget negotiations in the Senate. Yeşilgöz began her speech by asserting the strength of liberalism, calling it “the only answer to populism.” She told attendees at the Brabanthallen, …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Health insurance deductible cuts at risk if Cabinet restores higher education budget

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Health Minister and PVV Deputy Minister Fleur Agema is “naturally” disappointed that the Cabinet may be unable to reduce the healthcare deductible by more than half. Under pressure from the opposition, the coalition must reduce planned education cuts and, according to the opposition parties, could pay for this with a smaller cut to the deductible. Agema could not rule out …

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1 month ago

Opposition parties form alliance against education cuts

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Opposition parties D66, CDA, and JA21 are joining forces to get a large part of the cuts in education that the Schoof Cabinet wants to implement off the table. Together, the parties are good for 15 seats in the lower house of Dutch parliament but can help the coalition to the necessary majority for their plans in the Senate. The …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Left alliance leader Timmermans fears rightwing coalition as Omtzigt keeps distance

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Frans Timmermans has noticed that Pieter Omtzigt of the New Social Contract party is not responding to his overtures and therefore fears the formation of a right-wing Cabinet. "Only in a case of extreme necessity with the left," is the doctrine Omtzigt carries from his former party, the CDA, according to Frans Timmermans. A few weeks ago, the party leaders …

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1 year, 7 months ago

BBB dropped from Utrecht coalition after seven-party talks collapse

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Farmers’ party BBB has dropped out of talks to form a provincial government in Utrecht after a proposed seven-party coalition fell apart in less than a day. Arne Schaddelee, the CU’s deputy leader, said his party felt ‘no comfort’ in going into talks with the other six parties without clarification on the wind turbines issue. The CU said it favoured …

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1 year, 7 months ago

BBB dropped from Utrecht coalition after seven-party talks collapse

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Farmers’ party BBB has dropped out of talks to form a provincial government in Utrecht after a proposed seven-party coalition fell apart in less than a day. Arne Schaddelee, the CU’s deputy leader, said his party felt ‘no comfort’ in going into talks with the other six parties without clarification on the wind turbines issue. The CU said it favoured …

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1 year, 8 months ago

New Provincial Council members instated today

NL Times

The new members of the Provincial Councils will be installed in the provincial houses on Wednesday. In Limburg, the new members receive a transfer document from the former members “for a smooth transition from the old to the new Council.” In Overijssel, the newly installed members of the Provincial Council will meet again on Thursday evening for an interpretation debate …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Right-wing parties critical of climate protest, response at Eindhoven Airport

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Several right-wing parliamentarians are critical of Extinction Rebellion’s protest at Eindhoven Airport on Saturday and the authorities’ response thereto. The climate activists were given hours of space to protest at the airport, while that is forbidden territory, CDA, VVD, and JA21 MPs told the Telegraaf. “We really want to get rid of the idea that you can break laws if …

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1 year, 9 months ago

VVD has had the biggest political donation so far this year

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The VVD has received the biggest donation to fund its provincial election and other campaigns so far this year, according to an updated review by the home affairs ministry. The VVD has been given €100,000 by a private donor, the CDA received €10,000 from former minister Onno Ruding and far right party Forum voor Democratie was donated the same amount …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Cabinet’s nitrogen law does not get support from the opposition

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In its current form, the government's nitrogen law cannot count on the support of either the opposition in the Tweede Kamer, or JA21 in the Senate. Like GroenLinks, PvdA believes that aviation, industry and mobility should also contribute to reducing nitrogen emissions, Attje Kuiken, PvdA party leader in the Tweede Kamer, added during the debate. In addition, BBB chairwoman Caroline …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Dutch parliamentarians support €57 rent reduction for low-income households

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Tenants with a low income - up to 130 percent of the social minimum - could soon get a rent reduction of 57 euros on average. A large part of the opposition wants the rent reduction not only to apply to the 600,000 low-income households renting in the social sectors but also to the 100,000 similar households with a private …

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2 years, 1 month ago

PM Rutte's VVD steadily losing support in polls; Far-right PVV gaining

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Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD is steadily losing support in the polls. In the latest Peilingwijzer, the VVD has between 22 and 26 seats, about seven less than six months ago when the party stood at 29 to 33. The far-right party now has 18 to 22 seats in the polls, compared to 13 to 17 six months ago. According …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Fireworks ban unlikely to be continued, surveyed MP’s say

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This week, the lower house of the Dutch parliament will debate a GroenLinks and PvdD proposal to ban consumer fireworks in exchange for professionally organized firework shows over New Year's. According to the green party and the animal party, the fun of consumer fireworks over New Year's does not outweigh the downsides - hundreds of injured people per year, stressed …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Labor wins big in Amsterdam city council election; Exit poll margin razor thin

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Amsterdam seemed likely to have a new largest political party on the city council, according to an early exit poll conducted by Ipsos on behalf of NOS. BIJ1 also looked to more than triple its vote total, taking nearly 7 percent, and first-timers Volt took 4.1 percent, and JA21 took 3.7 percent of the vote. The exit poll results show …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Far-right Baudet's pro-Russia statements raising concerns in parliament

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Multiple parties in the lower house of Dutch parliament are worried about pro-Russia statements by FvD leader Thierry Baudet. A few hours after Russia attacked Ukraine on Thursday, Baudet questioned whether the Netherlands' membership to NATO is "still of this time" and blamed Russia's declaration of war on the West's "tunnel vision," De Telegraaf reports. GroenLinks leader Jesse Klaver called …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Not enough senate support to break pension link to minimum wage

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Support for the new government’s decision to stop linking state pension increases to the minimum wage may not be forthcoming in the upper house of parliament, current affairs show Nieuwsuur reported on Tuesday night. The Labour party and far right JA21 both say they do not support the plan to break the link between the AOW and the minimum wage, …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Not enough senate support to break pension link to minimum wage

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Support for the new government’s decision to stop linking state pension increases to the minimum wage may not be forthcoming in the upper house of parliament, current affairs show Nieuwsuur reported on Tuesday night. The Labour party and far right JA21 both say they do not support the plan to break the link between the AOW and the minimum wage, …

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3 years ago

Support for coalition parties drops and newbies are on the rise

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With just two or three weeks to go before the new cabinet is presented to the public, support for the three biggest coalition parties is shrinking, according to the latest poll of polls. It now appears as if support for prime minister Mark Rutte’s VVD may be dented with some traditional supporters fearing the party has moved too far to …

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3 years ago

Support for coalition parties drops and newbies are on the rise

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With just two or three weeks to go before the new cabinet is presented to the public, support for the three biggest coalition parties is shrinking, according to the latest poll of polls. It now appears as if support for prime minister Mark Rutte’s VVD may be dented with some traditional supporters fearing the party has moved too far to …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Official election results are in: VVD at 34 seats, D66 at 24

NL Times

The official election results are in, and they are the same as the final ANP prognosis. Now that the electoral council determined the results, the Tweede Kamer Credentials Committee must confirm them and check that all elected candidates meet the conditions to be parliamentarians. Officially, 10,422,852 people voted in the election, placing turnout at 78.7 percent, a bit below the …

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Education Budget: €748 mil. planned cuts scrapped, partly at expense of Health Budtget

Coalition will drop slow student fine to save education budget

Students won’t face late graduation fines as coalition parties bend on education budget

Schoof urges single deal with opposition to pass budget plans

VVD leader Yeşilgöz criticizes opposition parties amid budget talks

Health insurance deductible cuts at risk if Cabinet restores higher education budget

Opposition parties form alliance against education cuts

Left alliance leader Timmermans fears rightwing coalition as Omtzigt keeps distance

BBB dropped from Utrecht coalition after seven-party talks collapse

BBB dropped from Utrecht coalition after seven-party talks collapse

New Provincial Council members instated today

Right-wing parties critical of climate protest, response at Eindhoven Airport

VVD has had the biggest political donation so far this year

Cabinet’s nitrogen law does not get support from the opposition

Dutch parliamentarians support €57 rent reduction for low-income households

PM Rutte's VVD steadily losing support in polls; Far-right PVV gaining

Fireworks ban unlikely to be continued, surveyed MP’s say

Labor wins big in Amsterdam city council election; Exit poll margin razor thin

Far-right Baudet's pro-Russia statements raising concerns in parliament

Not enough senate support to break pension link to minimum wage

Not enough senate support to break pension link to minimum wage

Support for coalition parties drops and newbies are on the rise

Support for coalition parties drops and newbies are on the rise

Official election results are in: VVD at 34 seats, D66 at 24