Eerste Kamer

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Rainbow flags hanging from windows in Amsterdam
Politics
Majority in Dutch Senate supports ban on gay conversion therapy
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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
Politics
BBB Senate faction opposes conversion therapy ban despite earlier support
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
Politics
Netherlands adopts EU migration pact’s strict asylum rules; Senate wants June 12 start
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Asylum and Immigration Minister Bart van den Brink (CDA) after the Dutch Senate voted down a package of stricter asylum measures. 21 Apr. 2026
Politics
Dutch Senate shoots down stricter asylum law, but approves two status system
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The provincial flag of Groningen flies in Winschoten with a seismogram printed on it in protest of gas extraction and the resultant earthquakes. 20 Sept. 2019
Business
Majority in Netherlands supports keeping Groningen gas wells
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Cropped shot of doctor measuring a woman's blood pressure
HealthPolitics
Cabinet pushing through with healthcare deductible hike to €455 despite lack of support
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Pension
PoliticsBusiness
Cabinet won’t scrap state pension age hike before discussing alternatives
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PRO Senator Paul Rosenmöller shakes Prime Minister Rob Jetten's hand after receving majority support for his motion to scrap the Cabinet's plans to increase state pension age more rapidly. Deputy Prime Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz is next to Jetten, smiling at the camera. 7 April 2026
Politics
Senate axes Dutch government's plan for faster increase in state pension age
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Former BBB senator Robert van Gasteren
Politics
BBB expels Senator Van Gasteren after party spat
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Jonnie Boer and Thérèse Boer in a promotional image for 2025 documentary series, De Opvolging, which followed their three-Michelin Star restaurant, De Librije.
CrimePoliticsCultureFood
List of 49 important deaths affecting the Netherlands in 2025
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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.
Crime
Police: No signs of massive unrest during upcoming New Year's Eve
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Artificial insemination
Politics
Dutch MPs approve bill to grow embryos for medical research
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Arie Griffioen during his time as a senator while representing BBB in 2023.
Politics
Senator ditches “increasingly” right BBB to join popular centrist party D66
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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
Politics
Cabinet formation advice: D66, CDA start negotiating, VVD sidelined for now
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The main debate hall of the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, in 2015
PoliticsBusiness
Senate approves supplementary education budget with 400 million euros in cuts
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Mei Li Vos, chair of the Eerste Kamer and member of GroenLinks-PvdA.
Politics
GroenLinks-PvdA’s Mei Li Vos elected chair of Dutch Senate; Expected to lead until 2027
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
Politics
Banning cities from prioritizing refugees in housing is discriminatory, Minister says
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A cover on a bicycle in Amsterdam says, "Asylum seekers are okay". February 2014
Politics
Dutch parliament adopts laws for the "strictest asylum policy ever"
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Logo Pvda and GroenLinks
Politics
GroenLinks and PvdA members vote in favor of merger into new party
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The main debate hall of the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, in 2015
CrimePolitics
Senate votes against proposal to give minister power to ban criminal motorcycle clubs
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Homes in The Hague
PoliticsBusiness
Opposition parties criticize PVV for coalition's plans to freeze rental prices
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Former VVD party leader Hans Wiegel speaking in the Concertgebouw in Haarlem, November 7, 1972
Politics
Former VVD leader and Deputy Prime Minister Hans Wiegel passes away at 83
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Woman shopping for a washing machine
PoliticsBusiness
Dutch government planning VAT increase to 21.4% to fill gap in budget
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The Belastingdienst logo on a window
Business
Dutch government's tax plans will allow higher incomes to deduct more mortgage interest