There was widespread condemnation of anti-Semitism in the parliamentary debate on the Amsterdam riots on Wednesday. “Anti-semitism can’t be fought with Muslim hatred,” GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans said to Wilders, according to NOS and NU.nl’s liveblogs on the debate. D66 leader Rob Jetten: “You don’t combat anti-Semitism with even filthier racism.” Wilders started the debate in the PVV’s classic anti-Muslim, …
Two coalition parties have called on energy minister Rob Jetten to offer full compensation to councils that cancelled their contracts with former Russian gas supplier Gazprom. Around 150 customers of Gazprom Energy, which is a subsidiary of Sefe, had already switched suppliers in response to Jetten’s original deadline, usually at much higher energy prices. CU MP Pieter Grinwis said Jetten’s …
