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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 PV…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 Ukrain…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Cray Me A River Edition - Week 9 - 2025
An €8 billion windfall turns out to be a poisoned chalice for the cabinet as the coalition parties start scrambling for a piece of the pie. The four …
1 year, 1 month ago
The Sober As A Ugandan Bunker Edition - Week 8 - 2024
The mission to realise the "strictest asylum policy ever" takes another twist as housing minister Mona Keijzer bans local councils from giving refuge…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Manure Hits The Windmill Edition - Week 6 - 2025
The BBB is the latest coalition party to be plunged into crisis as an MP quits and the local party in its Overijssel heartland splits over "irreconci…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Lock Up The Wolves Edition - Week 7 - 2025
As Karl Marx once observed, history repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, the third as Marjolein Faber's asylum policy. The…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Hunebed Heist Way Edition - Week 5 - 2025
Another week, another round of infighting and backtracking in the coalition, this time over an eye-watering 0.4% increase in the rate of VAT. The Dre…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Gourmet Flamingos and Wolves in Blankets Edition - Week 4 - 2025
A hazy cloud hangs over the cabinet after it loses another court case against its nitrogen reduction policy. Marjolein Faber's latest wheeze to send …
1 year, 3 months ago
The Blueberry Monday Edition - Week 3 - 2024
Some people call it the most depressing day of the year: to others it's known as the return of parliament. Geert Wilders' coalition crisis roulette w…
1 year, 3 months ago