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17 hours, 53 minutes ago

Omtzigt and van der Plas clash over Quran ban proposal during coalition talks

NL Times

Pieter Omtzigt, leader of New Social Contract, and Caroline van der Plas, leader of the Farmer-Citizen Movement, publicly debated on Sunday over whether a proposed Quran ban had been part of coalition negotiations. Van der Plas responded via social media platform X, formerly Twitter, calling Omtzigt’s comments inaccurate. “For the record: A ban on the possession of the Quran was …

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4 days, 17 hours ago

Parliament shoots down Cabinet plan to slash €165 million from healthcare training

NL Times

Coalition parties and the opposition told the Cabinet to drop their plan to make spending cutbacks in additional education and training for healthcare personnel. Parties involved in the compromise deal said they were confused, because it was not clear that the measure would affect the training of nurses. The CDA - which, like the ChristenUnie, SGP and JA21, made the …

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5 days, 17 hours ago

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

NL Times

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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Wilders threatens to pull out of Dutch coalition over further asylum policy compromises

NL Times

PVV leader Geert Wilders said he will not support any further concessions when it comes to the Cabinet’s plan to approach asylum measures in the Netherlands. That I will no longer tolerate strong opposition, because then I will no longer feel like being in the Cabinet.” Coalition partner NSC has been firmly at odds with the PVV on the measures …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Minister Madlener faces pushback over proposed e-bike regulations

NL Times

A new government-commissioned study has deemed a fatbike-specific ban for children "unworkable," as reported by AD. Minister of Infrastructure Barry Madlener is now exploring broader regulations for all e-bikes, but this proposal has met significant resistance in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, including from his own PVV party. The Tweede Kamer has demanded targeted regulations …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Dutch far-right asylum minister will not block Bulgaria, Romania from joining Schengen

NL Times

The Netherlands remains in favor of lifting European border controls with Bulgaria and Romania. Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber, the Cabinet member responsible for this policy, is ignoring a last attempt from her own party, the PVV, to block these plans. Faber also does not like the fact that Bulgaria and Romania are joining the Schengen Area. The PVV …

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2 weeks ago

PVV leader Wilders visiting illegal Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank today

NL Times

PVV leader Geert Wilders is currently in Israel and plans to visit an illegal Israeli settlement on the occupied West Bank on Monday, he said on X. Last month, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant due to indications that they “bear criminal responsibility” for several crimes, including using …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

PVV junior justice minister sends prisoners home early

Dutch News

Prison overcrowding has prompted junior justice minister Ingrid Conradie to send prisoners home three days early to make room for other detainees. The prison system is heading for “code black” this week, meaning that there are no police or prison cells available for newly arrested suspects and people who have been convicted. It’s crucial for the rule of law.” Prisoners …

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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

Wilders rejects combined budget negotiations with Prime Minister Schoof

NL Times

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, has rejected a proposal by Prime Minister Schoof to negotiate education, health care, and foreign aid budgets simultaneously. The debate over the education budget has exposed divisions within the Dutch coalition government, which comprises PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB and has no majority in the Senate. The opposition bloc—including D66, CDA, …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

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

NL Times

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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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Over half of PVV State Sec.'s master's thesis copied from existing texts: report

NL Times

More than half of State Secretary Vicky Maeijer’s master’s thesis was copied from existing texts, BNR found when checking the 69-page document with the software universities use to detect plagiarism. The other 32 percent was copied from scientific papers and syllabi that were easily findable online when Maeijer wrote her thesis in 2009. “The thesis is largely the result of …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Europe finally faces up to migrant crisis: Germany looks set to vote in anti-migrant chancellor, France blames soft UK for Channel crossings, Ireland faces homeless crisis… while hard-right Meloni HAS

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European governments have begun to face up to the challenges of the migrant crisis, making strong moves to provide a fair system that cuts casualties and protects legal routes of entry. Police at the German-Polish border control traffic as enhanced border checks are introduced on September 16 An Italian Coast Guard vessel carrying migrants rescued at sea passes between tourist …

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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, 1 day 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 ago

Achahbar denies racism forced her to quit, criticises ministers

Dutch News

Former junior finance minister Nora Achahbar has said her decision to quit was not prompted by alleged racist comments in a cabinet meeting last week. It’s like the old game where you whisper something in someone’s ear and at the end of the circle a completely different word comes out.” In her resignation letter the former NSC party minister did …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Cabinet crisis averted, but the situation might be bound to escalate

NL Times

Dutch newspapers on Saturday morning devoted significant front-page coverage to the cabinet crisis narrowly averted late Friday night. “It’s bound to go wrong at some point, this collaboration between the far-right PVV and the self-proclaimed ‘center party’ New Social Contract,” Trouw wrote about the "fragile cabinet." Above an article, the paper wrote, “Sparks Fly Again.” According to the paper, the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Junior minister quits over racist comments made in cabinet

Dutch News

A junior minister on behalf of the good governance party NSC has left the cabinet because she is angry at the cabinet’s reaction to last week’s violence in Amsterdam. Nora Achahbar, who had been charged with sorting out the child benefit scandal compensation scheme, was reportedly shocked by the “extremely racist language” used by the other three parties in the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Cabinet will continue despite intensifying division; NSC members will remain

NL Times

The governing coalition parties narrowly averted the collapse of the Cabinet on Friday, just 136 days after Prime Minister Dick Schoof's first Cabinet was sworn into office. Only NSC member Nora Achahbar will step down as reported earlier in the day, but the six other NSC-backed Cabinet members will remain, sources close to emergency coalition talks told RTL Nieuws, NOS, …

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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, 1 week ago

All parties denounce anti-Semitism Amsterdam riots; Wilders blames Muslims, Moroccans

NL Times

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, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Multi-millionaire takes over as Dutch tax minister

Dutch News

Former businessman Tjebbe van Oostenbruggen is taking over as tax minister following the resignation of Folkert Idsinga, who quit last week saying the far-right PVV had held a “knife at his throat”. Van Oostenbruggen said after his appointment he will be happy as minister “if the Dutch have more confidence in the government, better grip on their own financial situation …

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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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Omtzigt and van der Plas clash over Quran ban proposal during coalition talks

Parliament shoots down Cabinet plan to slash €165 million from healthcare training

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

Wilders threatens to pull out of Dutch coalition over further asylum policy compromises

Minister Madlener faces pushback over proposed e-bike regulations

Dutch far-right asylum minister will not block Bulgaria, Romania from joining Schengen

PVV leader Wilders visiting illegal Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank today

PVV junior justice minister sends prisoners home early

Schoof urges single deal with opposition to pass budget plans

Wilders rejects combined budget negotiations with Prime Minister Schoof

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

Over half of PVV State Sec.'s master's thesis copied from existing texts: report

Europe finally faces up to migrant crisis: Germany looks set to vote in anti-migrant chancellor, France blames soft UK for Channel crossings, Ireland faces homeless crisis… while hard-right Meloni HAS

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

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

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

Achahbar denies racism forced her to quit, criticises ministers

Cabinet crisis averted, but the situation might be bound to escalate

Junior minister quits over racist comments made in cabinet

Cabinet will continue despite intensifying division; NSC members will remain

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

All parties denounce anti-Semitism Amsterdam riots; Wilders blames Muslims, Moroccans

Multi-millionaire takes over as Dutch tax minister

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