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The Strictly Not Dancing With Wolves Edition - Week 19 - 2025
Foreign minister Casper Veldkamp finally draws a red line over Israel's intervention in Gaza, but will it be the fault line that ruptures the coalition? The conflict is also the focus of protests at …
Published on 4 months ago
The Penguin Murder Mystery Edition - Week 18 - 2025
As the economy cools, the cabinet burns through its green energy fund to bail out fossil fuel users and torch its climate change targets. The debate on who should be included in the May 4 commemorati…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
The TikTok Terrorism Tango Edition - Week 17 - 2025
The passing of Pope Francis managed to put the king's birthday birthday celebrations and Pieter Omtzigt's dramatic departure from politics in the shade this week. The coalition leaders emerged from a…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Crossing Zebras and Hoarding Coots Edition - Week 15 - 2025
An Easter egg scramble begins in The Hague as ministers try to grab a morsel of the €8 billion available in his spring budget statement. The Binnenhof's history as a medieval palace turns out to be e…
Published on 5 months ago
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum Ministry Edition - Week 14 - 2025
Once again Marjolein Faber confounds critics and partners alike with her bottomless talent for turning a storm in a teacup into a political maelstrom. Dick Schoof insists his cabinet is united behind…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
The No Tupperware For Old Wolves Edition - Week 13 - 2025
This week it was the turn of the immigration service and the justice inspectorate to take Marjolein Faber to task over her unravelling immigration plans. Amsterdam is shocked as five people are stabb…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Urk Kids Get Stoned In The Biblical Sense Edition - Week 12 - 2025
Dick Schoof heads to Brussels for a defence spending summit with orders to pull the emergency brake on the Eurobonds train. Back in The Hague, the PVV holds its own prisons minister hostage over her …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Back to Frugality Edition - Week 11 - 2025
The latest crisis to engulf Dick Schoof's cabinet sees three coalition parties vote against the prime minister on Europe's rearmament plan to support Ukraine. GroenLinks-PvdA speed up plans for a mer…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Who's Ringing Dick's Doorbell Edition - Week 10 - 2025new
There's no such thing as an unqualified success in Dick Schoof's coalition of the unwilling. The prime minister steers a €3.5bn aid package to Ukraine through parliament, but faces accusations of a s…
Published on 6 months ago