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Strict asylum measures to be debated, voted on by Dutch Cabinet members on Friday

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The Cabinet is expected to move ahead with a set of measures put forward by Minister of Asylum and Immigration Marjolein Faber during the regular weekly meeting of ministers on Friday. The issue of asylum has been divisive even within the coalition, dating back to the early days of discussions between the four parties shortly after the November 2023 election. …

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1 week, 3 days ago

CDA rises in polls as coalition loses majority

NL Times

In the latest Peilingwijzer, a weighted average of seat projections from Ipsos, I&O Research, and Verian/EenVandaag, the Christian Democratic Appeal continues its upward trajectory. The party, which holds 20 seats, is now polling between zero and three seats, reflecting a major setback since the previous Peilingwijzer three months ago. Despite the coalition’s declining popularity, Ipsos and I&O found that three …

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1 week, 5 days ago

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

NL Times

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 ago

1,000 discrimination reports after MP's vote to register dual-citizens' "norms & values"

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The Dutch discrimination hotlines received over 1,000 reports after parliament adopted a motion to investigate the “norms and values” of ethnically diverse Dutch people, Discriminatie.nl, the umbrella organization of anti-discrimination agencies, told NU.nl. Late last month, VVD parliamentarian Bente Becker proposed that the government “keep track of data on cultural and religious norms and values of Dutch people with a …

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2 weeks ago

Regulated cannabis supply chain experiment to enter new phase in April 2025

NL Times

Starting April 7, 2025, coffee shops in ten Dutch municipalities participating in the regulated cannabis supply chain experiment will be required to sell only cannabis products sourced from official, licensed growers. Since June 2024, coffee shops in Breda, Tilburg, and eight additional municipalities—Groningen, Zaanstad, Almere, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Voorne aan Zee, Heerlen, and Maastricht—have been allowed to sell both regulated and …

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Wilders to visit West Bank and meet Netanyahu on trip to Israel

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Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV party, will visit the occupied West Bank as part of his controversial visit to Israel which will also include meetings with president Isaac Herzog and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Foreign affairs minister Caspar Veldkamp made clear that the visit was not sanctioned by the government and if Wilders set foot in an illegal …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Netherlands freezes Syrian asylum application decisions for six months

NL Times

The Dutch Cabinet is imposing a six-month freeze on decisions regarding Syrians who have applied for asylum in the Netherlands, said Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber in a letter to the Tweede Kamer. Due to the fall of the Assad regime, there is too much uncertainty about the situation in the country to carefully assess asylum applications, Faber told …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Foreigners' "norms and values" won't be registered, PM says

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The government will not be specifically recording the “norms and values” of people living in the Netherlands who have roots abroad, despite a parliamentary vote in favour of the idea, prime minister Dick Schoof has said. On Monday a large majority of MPs voted for a motion requiring government bodies to research and record the “cultural and religious” values held …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

VVD struggling with shaky Cabinet as voter confidence plummets

NL Times

The VVD is struggling with the wobbling Cabinet and some members are pushing the party to back off on populist positions and return to its liberal core values. VVD voters are also quickly losing confidence in this government with less than a quarter still believing in it, RTL Nieuws reported after the VVD conference in Den Bosch this weekend and …

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3 weeks, 1 day 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, 3 days ago

The Hague coalition loses two councillors to Richard de Mos

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Two The Hague city councillors have left their respective parties and joined the party set up by Richard de Mos, which was sidelined in the most recent coalition negotiations because De Mos was facing corruption charges. Mairan Sewtahal and Ismet Bingöl have switched to Hart voor Den Haag, saying that De Mos’s party actually listens to locals, particularly when it …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Ministers "misled parliament" over purchase of Israeli wiretaps

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MPs have accused the government of misleading parliament over its purchase of a police wiretapping system from a controversial defence contractor based in Israel. Justice minister David van Weel said senior police commanders were “very positive” about the “highly promising” new system and it could be ready to go live in the first half of next year. Michel van Nispel …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Coalition stands firm over €2bn education cuts despite warnings

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The four coalition parties have rejected calls to scrap €2 billion of education cuts, despite growing pressure from opposition parties who are threatening to block the plans in the Senate. VVD MP Clare Martens said the ruling parties were not “dancing on the tables” at the prospect of education cuts. Bruins under pressure Education minister Eppo Bruins said he understood …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Coalition parties won't support opposition's plans to lessen education budget cuts

NL Times

The coalition parties PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB are not keen on taking the almost 2 billion euros in education budget cuts off the table as the opposition wants. Multiple opposition parties made concrete proposals to change the budget on multiple points, but the coalition parties do not consider it their task to accommodate the opposition, as became clear during …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

VVD Senate leader Edith Schippers quits to focus on CEO role

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Former health minister Edith Schippers is stepping down as coalition party VVD’s leader in the Senate, citing the difficulties of combining the role with her job as head of a pharmaceutical company. That has been the case for my position as party leader, with the attendant demands on my time.” Health minister Schippers was health minister during Rutte’s first three …

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4 weeks ago

Coalition down to 67 seats in new poll as NSC slump to three MPs

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The four parties in the right-wing coalition would win 67 seats if a general election were held now, leaving them nine short of a majority, according to a new opinion poll. Two NSC junior ministers and two MPs have quit in the last three weeks, citing concerns about the increasingly abrasive nature of public debate and the behaviour of PVV …

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4 weeks ago

Almost half of former cabinet members still looking for a job

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Some 13 of the ministers and junior ministers in the last cabinet have not found a new job four months after it was disbanded on July 2, a tally among the 29 ex-members by RTL Nieuws has shown. Wopke Hoekstra left to become European commissioner for Climate action, while former health minister Ernst Kuipers also stepped down prematurely, accepting a …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

VVD Senator Edith Schippers will resign to become CEO at pharma firm Mosadex

NL Times

Senator Edith Schippers will vacate her seat within a matter of weeks take over as the next CEO of pharmaceutical wholesaler Mosadex. While it was not immediately clear who will take her place as a senator, Schippers confirmed on Monday that Deputy Faction Leader Tanja Klip-Martin was unanimously chosen to become the next VVD leader in the Eerste Kamer. Schippers, …

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1 month ago

Timmermans sees VVD increasingly moving towards PVV, "fuels division in this country"

NL Times

GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans sees the VVD increasingly moving towards the PVV. For example, VVD State Secretary Jurgen Nobel concluded after that event that Islamic youth "to a large extent do not subscribe to our Dutch norms and values". Daarom zeg ik tegen Wilders, Yesilgöz en Omtzigt: de problemen van Nederland wachten niet tot jullie zijn uitgeruzied. Ga aan de …

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1 month ago

Omtzigt addresses troubled NSC at congress after Cabinet members & MP’s resign

NL Times

Pieter Omtzigt is not planning a quiet start to the week of his return: On Saturday, he will be speaking at his party's NSC congress in Nieuwegein. In recent weeks, two state secretaries and just as many party MPs have resigned because they were annoyed by the way things were being handled in the coalition and the Cabinet. There were …

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1 month, 1 week ago

EU parliament votes to delay and dilute anti-deforestation rules

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In the first vote on environmental matters of its new term, the European parliament agreed on Thursday to delay and water down new rules aiming to ensure that products sold in the European market do not come from deforested land. These include the controversial creation of a new category of countries posing “no risk” on deforestation in addition to the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Cabinet member quits over colleagues’ "racist" positions after Amsterdam riots

NL Times

State Secretary Nora Achahbar will tender her resignation to Prime Minister Dick Schoof later on Friday due to dissatisfaction over how the Cabinet handled the riots in Amsterdam following last week's Europa League match between Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, sources told NOS and ANP. Tensions arose during the first Cabinet meeting after the violence and unrest in …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

CDA leader lashes out at Cabinet, "lacks sense of responsibility"

NL Times

CDA leader Henri Bontenbal has lashed out at the Cabinet at a congress of his party. All voters get from this party is a “daily dose of rudeness, insults and harsh language to disguise their dilettantism and lack of responsibility”. Het kan echt anders.#congresspeech #CDAcongres pic.twitter.com/D92qmDnVcc — Henri Bontenbal November 9, 2024 But the VVD also gets a dig. “It …

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Strict asylum measures to be debated, voted on by Dutch Cabinet members on Friday

CDA rises in polls as coalition loses majority

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

1,000 discrimination reports after MP's vote to register dual-citizens' "norms & values"

Regulated cannabis supply chain experiment to enter new phase in April 2025

Wilders to visit West Bank and meet Netanyahu on trip to Israel

Netherlands freezes Syrian asylum application decisions for six months

Foreigners' "norms and values" won't be registered, PM says

VVD struggling with shaky Cabinet as voter confidence plummets

Schoof urges single deal with opposition to pass budget plans

VVD leader Yeşilgöz criticizes opposition parties amid budget talks

The Hague coalition loses two councillors to Richard de Mos

Ministers "misled parliament" over purchase of Israeli wiretaps

Coalition stands firm over €2bn education cuts despite warnings

Coalition parties won't support opposition's plans to lessen education budget cuts

VVD Senate leader Edith Schippers quits to focus on CEO role

Coalition down to 67 seats in new poll as NSC slump to three MPs

Almost half of former cabinet members still looking for a job

VVD Senator Edith Schippers will resign to become CEO at pharma firm Mosadex

Timmermans sees VVD increasingly moving towards PVV, "fuels division in this country"

Omtzigt addresses troubled NSC at congress after Cabinet members & MP’s resign

EU parliament votes to delay and dilute anti-deforestation rules

Cabinet member quits over colleagues’ "racist" positions after Amsterdam riots

CDA leader lashes out at Cabinet, "lacks sense of responsibility"