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D66 Senator Paul van Meenen congratulates VVD MP Bente Becker and hands a bouquet to D66 MP Wieke Paulusma after the Eerste Kamer approved a ban on gay conversion therapy. 16 June 2026
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Netherlands bans gay conversion therapy after Senate majority backs new law
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Esther Ouwehand
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Esther Ouwehand steps down as Partij voor de Dieren leader after seven years
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BBB Senator Henk Marquart Scholtz announces his party will no longer vote to criminalize pushing people, including children, into gay conversion therapy. 2 June 2026
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BBB Senate faction opposes conversion therapy ban despite earlier support
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
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Netherlands adopts EU migration pact’s strict asylum rules; Senate wants June 12 start
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D66 leader Rob Jetten and CDA leader Henri Bontenbal during the parliamentary debate on the D66, VVD, and CDA coalition agreement. 3 February 2026
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PVV'S call to oppose asylum repair bill risks loss of Senate majority support
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Alexander van Hattem at the end of the Asylum debate in the Dutch Senate, April 15, 2026.
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Far-right PVV senators will vote against asylum plan from its own fmr. minister
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Former BBB senator Robert van Gasteren
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BBB expels Senator Van Gasteren after party spat
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The main debate hall of the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, in 2015
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Senate shoots down law to monitor donations to mosques from abroad
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FNV Centraal Vakbondshuis in Utrecht
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Dutch trade union urges EU to intervene over Netherlands' minimum wage law
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Fireworks usher in the New Year on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. 1 January 2025
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Fireworks sector expects 20% more sales for last New Year’s before ban
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Arie Griffioen during his time as a senator while representing BBB in 2023.
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Senator ditches “increasingly” right BBB to join popular centrist party D66
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The main debate hall of the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, in 2015
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Senate approves supplementary education budget with 400 million euros in cuts
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Ridderhof, Parliament, The Hague
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Laser show to be held at the Binnenhof in The Hague this New Year’s Eve
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The main debate hall of the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, in 2015
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VVD Senator quits party over policy disagreements, keeps seat as independent
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Mei Li Vos, chair of the Eerste Kamer and member of GroenLinks-PvdA.
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GroenLinks-PvdA’s Mei Li Vos elected chair of Dutch Senate; Expected to lead until 2027
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Police officers in the Netherlands look out at a group of people on the street as fireworks explode over their head just after midnight on New Year's Day.
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Dutch Senate votes in favor of national fireworks ban
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The main debate hall of the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, in 2015
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Senate votes against proposal to give minister power to ban criminal motorcycle clubs
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Homes in The Hague
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Opposition parties criticize PVV for coalition's plans to freeze rental prices
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Police officers were pelted with fireworks in Eindhoven in 2023
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Parliament majority want fireworks ban to be implemented after the next New Year's Eve
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The Fontys University of Applied Sciences on the Rachelsmolen in Eindhoven
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Senate passes €1.2 billion in higher education cuts; Universities planning lawsuit
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Solar panels cover a rooftop in an unnamed location. November 2017
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It now takes 20 years for solar panels to pay for themselves: Homeowners’ assoc
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Marjolein Faber
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Asylum min. maintains she will not alter the asylum seeker bill after criticism
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Tweede Kamer
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Many parties in parliament express their disdain with plans to raise VAT tariffs
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A woman makes a line of the designer drug, 3-Methylmethcathinone, better known as 3-MMC, on a mirror. October 2021
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Senate agrees with proposal, designer drugs to be banned from July 1