cabinet formation

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D66 leader Rob Jetten speaking after the publication of the coalition agreement, December 2, 2025.
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Jetten I Cabinet could be sworn in on February 23
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Rianne Letschert
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D66 nominates Rianne Letschert as informateur to lead next phase of cabinet formation
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A handshake
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D66 and CDA set policy agenda, opening path for cabinet formation talks
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Wouter Koolmees in his first press conference as a discussion leader to find a path towards a new coalition government. 4 Nov. 2025
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Coalition negotiations to start with only D66, CDA; Official report later today
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D66 leader Rob Jetten
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Jetten likely to lead Cabinet formation talks; Aiming for "broad political center"
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Prime Minister Dick Schoof speaks to the Tweede Kamer ahead of the debate on the fall of his first Cabinet. 4 June 2025
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Dutch PM Dick Schoof formally submits Cabinet’s resignation
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King Willem-Alexander swears in the Ministers of the Schoof I Cabinet at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, 2 July 2024
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Rutte scoped out possible successors during Cabinet formation; Schoof was third choice
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Mark Rutte at his final EU Summit as the Dutch prime minister, shaking hands with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer as Prime Ministers Evika Siliņa of Latvia and Simon Harris of Ireland look on. 27 June 2024
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Mark Rutte will say his goodbyes to EU leaders at his last EU summit this week
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Students express high levels of loneliness and stress
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Students upset by coalition plans to fine them for taking too long to graduate
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Piggy bank with a stethoscope
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Health insurance deductible will be slashed in half by new Dutch coalition
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Elbert Dijkgraaf and Richard van Zwol discuss their approach to forming a new Cabinet. 21 March 2024
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Still no new Cabinet after another long day of negotiations
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PVV leader Geert Wilders campaigning in The Hague
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Wilders says colleague's leak of formation document was a "dumb mistake"; No deal yet
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PVV parliamentarian Gidi Markuszower enters the Cabinet formation talks with the first page of the draft agreement showing, 6 May 2024
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Draft Cabinet deal caught on camera: Strict asylum plan, tax cuts for middle incomes
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PVV leader Geert Wilders during the first parliamentary debate in the Tweede Kamer on the election results. 13 December 2023.
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Cabinet formation talks entering a critical phase, parties must make decisions
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Piggy bank with a stethoscope
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Health insurance deductible could be slashed by parties in Cabinet formation talks
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Elbert Dijkgraaf and Richard van Zwol discuss their approach to forming a new Cabinet. 21 March 2024
Politics
Decision on whether this Cabinet formation will work by mid-May: formation leaders
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PVV leader Geert Wilders during the first parliamentary debate in the Tweede Kamer on the election results. 13 December 2023.
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Geert Wilders' mother passed away this weekend
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GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans in a parliamentary debate on the Cabinet formation talks between PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB, 29 March 2024
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GL-PvdA might work with VVD, Timmermans says amid annoyance over another Wilders tweet
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Eric van der Burg
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Relief that Wilders won't be Prime Minister, State Sec. says in asylum debate
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Speed limit sign along a highway near Leiden, 11 March 2020
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Parties in formation talks investigating return of 130 km/h speed limit
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Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz defends debates the issue of legalizing hard drugs in the Netherlands in the Tweede Kamer. 8 February 2024
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VVD leader surprised by Wilders' abrupt departure from formation talks on asylum
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PVV leader Geert Wilders in a parliamentary debate on the Cabinet formation talks between PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB, 29 March 2024
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No major decisions made in formation talks yet; Finances making things complicated
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Protestors gathered in Amsterdam call for an end to the war in Ukraine and Russia's withdrawal from that country. 24 Feb. 2023
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GL-PvdA: A quarter of a percent of the Dutch economy should go to Ukraine every year
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Wind turbines seen through the smoke and chimneys of oil refinery Pernis in Rotterdam
Business
Dutch pension funds offer to push billions into energy transition