All budget votes delayed a week as education impasse continues
2 weeks, 3 days ago

All budget votes delayed a week as education impasse continues

Dutch News  

Voting on all the Dutch ministerial budgets has been delayed for a week, as the coalition continues to try to reach a deal on education ministry spending. D66 pulled out of the compromise talks on the education budget on Thursday saying the coalition’s plans still went too far. If the total budget does not win support in the senate, ministers will have to revert to the 2024 spending plans on a temporary basis. Prime minister Dick Schoof last week urged the nine parties to come up with a “total package” to settle their difference over the budget in one go.

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Christian parties side with coalition on education budget cuts
1 week, 4 days ago

Christian parties side with coalition on education budget cuts

Dutch News  

The three Christian parties in parliament have sided with the right-wing government and far-right parties to ensure a majority for education cuts in the senate, saying the deal “has made a bad budget not as bad.” The coalition had planned to slash €2 billion from spending on education but this has now been reduced to €1.25 billion, following the agreement …

D66 pulls out of education cuts talks, citing lack of progress
2 weeks, 4 days ago

D66 pulls out of education cuts talks, citing lack of progress

Dutch News  

Liberal democratic party D66 has stepped out of talks with the right-wing coalition on putting together a compromise deal on education cuts. D66 leader Rob Jetten told reporters that while the talks had led to some good moves, such as the decision to scrap higher university fees for slow students, not enough was being done in other areas. Prime minister …

Coalition will drop slow student fine to save education budget
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Coalition will drop slow student fine to save education budget

Dutch News  

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 …

Students won’t face late graduation fines as coalition parties bend on education budget
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

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 …

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