Nibud: Financial uncertainty remains large despite the increase in purchasing power. Almost all households seem to be improving financially next year. But although purchasing power increases, the financial uncertainty remains great for some groups, Nibud warns. The Information Institute refers, among other things, to young adults who are looking for a first home or people who have high costs due to a chronic disability.
“It is important for them that a solution for, for example, the problems in the housing market and a simpler allowance system will be worked on in the coming years,” says director Arjan Vliegenthart.
Unclear who pays account for excise tax reduction of about 25 cents on the fuel excise duty remains in force, it was previously known from the leaked documents of the budget. The state treasury is therefore missing 1.7 billion euros. Outgoing finance minister Heinen scrapes money together on five different items to fill that gap. Part of it only later leads to extra income.
According to the Council of State, the main advisory body of the government, it is therefore still unclear who pays the bill. “It is going around in account,” said State Council Richard van Zwol. “But it doesn’t deserve the beauty prize.”
Small demonstrations and manifestations At Prinsjesdag According to the municipality of The Hague there were “several small -scale demonstrations and manifestations” during Prinsjesdag. Until now, everything has expired “properly and controlled”, a spokesperson said to the ANP news agency.
Along the route of the Royal carriages was a protest from the Republic organization. No banners and flags could be seen at the balcony scene at Noordeinde Palace.
Legal of the municipalities of the job After extra money for youth care The municipalities no longer go to court because the outgoing cabinet has released extra money for youth care. With those 728 million euros, municipalities are compensated for the extra costs they incurred in 2023 and 2024.
Municipalities threatened to go to court earlier this year if they did not get any compensation for that. The chairman of the Association of Dutch Municipalities, Sharon Dijksma, said he was happy last week that the case will not be in court.
The money comes from the money pots for the Long -Term Care and Health Insurance Act, which the government spent less money on in 2025 than expected.
Schoof: ‘Cannot do not afford’ ‘ Furthermore, according to Schoof, an attempt will be made to implement as many plans as possible in the room, such as the new asylum laws. “We have a shared responsibility not to stop the Netherlands. We cannot afford a standstill.” He hopes that a new cabinet will soon be formed after the elections, so that the problems in the Netherlands can be tackled.
Schoof hopes that parties will find each other during debate outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof looks ahead to the debates about the budget, which will start tomorrow. “It will undoubtedly be a campaign debate, but I hope it is also a debate where we can find each other.”
Long -awaited extra nitrogen plans remain from the cabinet promised in the spring to come up with extra plans for nitrogen reduction on Prinsjesdag. But this promise is not fulfilled. Outgoing agricultural minister Femke Wiersma receives 2.6 billion euros from a pot of money that was already reserved for her. The billions go to, among other things, a voluntary buying scheme, nature management and innovation. These measures were already known.
Purchasing power increases, but mainly due to economic developments households, a purchasing power increase from average 1.3 percent can expect, but that is mainly due to economic developments and less in policy. Workers get an average of 4.2 percent from their boss. That is more than sufficient to compensate for the inflation of 2.3 percent expected.
Benefits and pensions are also increasing sufficiently to keep up with the increase in the average price level, according to the purchasing power plates of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Furthermore, automatic adjustments in the tax and allowance system ensure that many people get something. The rising health insurance premium has a limited damping effect on purchasing power.
The most important and most expensive purchasing power measure that the outgoing cabinet takes on Prinsjesdag does not reach around a quarter of the households. They do not have a car and therefore do not benefit from the extension of the discount on the fuel batches, which involves 1.7 billion euros.
Subsidy for wind farms at sea returns The outgoing cabinet uses just 1 billion euros from the climate fund to support the construction of wind farms in the North Sea. In recent years it has been possible several times to have new parks built without a subsidy, but that is now in danger of failing. Wind park builders have to deal with higher costs and the demand for green electricity is not growing fast enough, especially due to slow sustainability in the industry.
Various wind farms are therefore delayed. With two new wind farms that will be tendered next year, a subsidy will again be available for developers. They are only paid if energy prices are low and energy companies cannot recoup their costs themselves.
Extra money for women’s shelter The cabinet also allocates 12 million euros extra for the care of women who can no longer live at home, for example due to domestic violence. The amount is available because municipalities have not spent care money from other budgets. Now they can realize extra reception places for women. The cabinet will still discuss with the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) to ensure that the money is actually used for additional reception places.
In the throne speech, the king was already briefly considering violence against women. “We cannot accept that girls and women do not feel safe on the street.”
Cabinet after the Chamber request: Extra money to safety, the outgoing cabinet is allocating 32 million euros for safety in public transport. Of these, 12 million euros is intended for the purchase of bodycams for NS employees. 20 million euros will be available for safety at stations.
With the money for the Bodycams, State Secretary Thierry Aartsen (Infrastructure, VVD) implements an appointment from the coalition agreement concluded last year. A vast majority of the chamber shouted this spring on “everything on everything” to arrange this.
In 2028 extra money to prisons State Secretary Arno Rutte (Justice and Security) will invest 35 million euros extra in prisons in 2028. That amount amounts to 50 million euros per year from 2031. This money has to reduce the cell shortage, including by opening a youth prison in the Gelderland village of Harreveld.
Last spring, Rutte’s pastor Ingrid Coenradie asked in the cabinet to eliminate 500 million euros a year to eliminate the cell deficiency. To her disappointment, she was not promised in the interim adjustment of the budget. This summer, the House of Representatives met its ministry somewhat by spending 75 million euros to reduce the cell deficiency. This amount was paid from a jar that was actually intended for the creation of a Constitutional Court.
Climate target 2030 seems unreachable, new cabinet policy does not get much from the climate goal for 2030 has become virtually unfeasible. New cabinet plans To get closer to the legal goal, have hardly made any difference in the past year.
Heinen Glad with a comprehensive budget Furthermore, the cabinet does not move any bills. “There is a conclusive budget for you.” Heinen says with pride that there is not now over the night about the budget by now. “That happened without night dishes and remaining apples at the Ministry of Finance.” With that Heinen closes his speech to the Lower House.
The Cabinet runs cutbacks on guidance for vulnerable students back the cutbacks on the educational opportunity scheme, which gives vulnerable students in secondary education more guidance, has been reversed. In the Spring Memorandum, that scheme was canceled, but a majority of the House of Representatives called on the cabinet to reconsider that.
That has happened now. At the same time, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science still has to cut back. It is not yet possible to say what those cutbacks will look like at that ministry.
Three major tasks for the cabinet There are three major tasks that the cabinet must focus on in the coming year, Heinen will continue. One is safety, for which considerably more is invested in defense. It should also not be necessary for women with keys to walk home between their fingers and parents are afraid that their children will no longer come home.
According to the outgoing minister, the other major tasks are the economy and the wallet of middle incomes.
Heinen says he wants to turn the tide and is positive. The economy is growing, he says. “There have never been so many jobs, the national debt is low and purchasing power rises,” he continues.
The outgoing finance minister finds the “eternal sin” that he is now on behalf of a outgoing cabinet. He also emphasizes that it is time to tackle problems.
The history of the briefcase since 1946 the Minister of Finance has been presenting the National Budget and Budget Memorandum in a special suitcase. The very first suitcase was bought for (converted) 1.70 euros at a learning trade in The Hague at the time. The inscription “Third Tuesday of September” was applied in letters of gold paper. Gold paint was used for this later.
The current briefcase is a gift from the SDU state printing company on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1964. The briefcase actually contains only part of the government budget. The entire budget does not fit in. The House of Representatives president will be presented later to part of the documents.
In 1988, Minister Onno Ruding brought out a miniature suitcase, in which the budget and bill were on microfiche. Eleven years later, Minister Gerrit Zalm brought out a miniature version with the budget on CD-ROM. And Minister Kees de Jager took a tablet from the briefcase in 2012, on which he had put the budget pieces online via a special Prinsjesdagapp.
Heinen with a briefcase on the way to Lower House of Disposal Eelco Heinen (Finance) is on the way to the Lower House with the briefcase, where he will present the Budget Memorandum and National Budget.
Van Hijum: ‘Working on the repair of sale’ NSC leader Eddy van Hijum wants to work on purchasing power recovery, the abolition of “the complicated allowance system” and stimulating housing. In the coming weeks he wants to “make the difference” with NSC from the Lower House and help good plans to a majority. The party has nineteen seats in the Lower House.
Van der Plas: ‘Healthy-resistant budget’ BBB member Caroline van der Plas responds positively to the cabinet plans for next year. According to her, they are in line with the “big concerns of the ordinary Dutchman”. She calls it a “healthy-resistant budget”. Van der Plas sees that, among other things, the asylum policy “is being overhauled” and the housing shortage is being tackled.
The king was talking about great concerns that live in people at home, but also about the power of our country.
That is also our job as politicians. Solving the problems that Dutch people are awake about. Ensure that we keep people safe in this …
Dilan Yesilgöz (VVD) emphasizes that the coming year should be used for the growth of the economy and making the Netherlands stronger and safer. She wants an “Entum-Rechts cabinet” to be on the landing after the elections. She also likes to see the BBB or JA21 in this.
Wilders: ‘Consequences are no longer manageable’ Geert Wilders (PVV) also emphasizes that politics has looked away for the major problems for too long. “Such as immigration and the consequences can no longer be overseen. It is high time that a new cabinet arrives once and for all with the open boundary policy and returns safety to our streets.” The king also spoke about migration in the throne speech, which he says, the cabinet should get a grip on quickly, and the safety of people on the street.
Jetten: “Real breakthroughs remained” “Due to the cabinet, real breakthroughs have failed,” writes Rob Jetten (D66) in his response to the speech. He mentions the Budget Memorandum, which traditionally has been partially leaked, a “sof”. “While Dutch people ask for courage, vision and solutions: for an affordable home, good education and climate.”
Bikker: ‘No solutions in the throne speech to major problems’ In the meantime, reactions from various politicians to the throne speech are trickling. According to Mirjam Bikker (CU), “crystal clear” became that a new government is needed. “A government that starts working on the big problems of today.” It also lacked solutions to those problems in the throne speech, she says. “Supplementary parents, young families and farmers hope for perspective, but see a politics that has turned into themselves, sunken in chaos.”
The king also expressed the worries about the war in Ukraine, among other things. The outgoing cabinet wants the “bloodshed” to come to an end as quickly as possible. The Netherlands will continue to work for a sustainable peace in Ukraine. Also “everyone wants to put an end” to “the human suffering in Gaza”.
But safety on the street in the Netherlands is also a point of attention. Women, people with a keppeltje or lovers of the same sex still experience a lot of insecurity, says the king.
The king mentions a number of positive developments. For example, four new locations for housing are designated, the fuel excise duty is maintained and purchasing power is moving forward.
Furthermore, Parliament will focus on finishing migration legislation to get a grip on migration, says the king. The recovery operations are also at the top of the priority list, so that, among other things, victims of the surcharge scandal are quickly compensated.
In the speech, the king speaks of polarization. Online, at universities and in The Hague, people are increasingly faced with each other, he says. According to De Koning there is an important role for the cabinet there, because in a democracy “the willingness to reach each other over the differences in an adult way”.
The king speaks of the NATO summit in June in The Hague, which is called historical in the throne speech. Due to the major international changes, it is necessary to greatly increase the defense expenditure.
The king emphasizes that people are mainly concerned with existence. “People want an income with which they reach the end of the month, a safe and trusted living environment and a house for themselves and their children.”
In the meantime, Caroline van der Plas (BBB) has also arrived in the Koninklijke Schouwburg. She is wearing the colors of Israel to express support to the Jewish community and the Israeli hostages.
Queen Máxima would wear the same dress as on Prinsjesdag in 2011. The queen regularly puts on a previously worn dress or other outfit, sometimes five times or more often.
Princess Beatrix was spotted in the Kneuterdijk Palace in The Hague. The palace is part of the Council of State building complex.
It is the last Prinsjesdag for PVV player Fleur Agema. She announced last month that she is no longer eligible for election. “I have found it a great honor to always be there. It is a day that is unique. I will certainly miss it.” Agema was the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Schoof cabinet.
FVD party leader Lidewij de Vos, Thierry Baudet (FVD) and his partner Davide have also just arrived at the Schouwburg.
Ja21 leader Joost Eerdmans took his daughter today.
And there is also former Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
GL-PvdA MP Laura Bromet (left) is also present.
ChristenUnie MP Don Ceder has also arrived at the Schouwburg.
NSC members Nicolien van Vroonhoven and Eddy van Hijum arrive at the Koninklijke Schouwburg.
There is also outgoing residential and asylum minister Mona Keijzer.
Femke Wiersma, outgoing minister of agriculture, fishing, food security and nature and Jord Brinkhuis arrive at the ministry.
Vincent Karremans, outgoing Minister of Economic Affairs, and his wife Marisa arrive at the Ministry of General Affairs.
Nibud: Financial Uncertainty Remains High Despite Increased Purchasing Power Almost All Households Seem to Be Financily Better Off Next Year. But AltheHothing Power is Increasing, Financial Uncertainty Remains High for Some Groups, Warns Nibud. The Information Institute Reers to Young Adults Who Are Looking For A First Home Or People Who Have High Costs Due to A Chronic Disability.
“For them, it is important that in the coming year work is done on a solution for, for example, the problems on the housing market and on a Simpler Allowance System,” Says director Arjan Vliegenthart.
Unclear who will pay the bill for excise reduction the discount of approxroximately 25 euros cents on fuel excise duty remains in effect, as was previously announced in the leaked documents from the budget. As a Result, the National Treasury Will Miss Out on 1.7 Billion Euros. Outgoing Finance Minister Heinen is Scraping Together Money from Five Different Items to Fill That Gap. Part of this will only lead to extra income later.
Accordance to the Council of State, The Government’s Most Important Advisory Body, It is Therefore Still Unclear Who Will Pay The Bill When. “In Accounting Terms, IT Adds Up,” Says State Councilor Richard Van Zwol. “But it Doesn’t Serve the Beauty Prize.”
Small demonstrations and manifestations at Prinsjesdag According to the Municipality of the Hague, There Were “Various Small-Scale Demonstrations and Manifestations” Duration Prinsjesdag. So far, Everything has gone “Properly and Controlled,” A Spokesperson Told Press Agency ANP .
Along the Route of the Royal Carriages There Was, Among Other Things, A Protest by the Organization Republic. No Banners or Flags Were Seen at the Balcony Scene at Noordeinde Palace.
Municipalities’ Lawsuit Off the Table After Extra Money For Youth Care The Municipalities Are No Longer Going to Court because the Outgoing Cabinet has released Extra Money for Youth Care. With That 728 Million Euros, Municipalities Will Be Compensated for the Extra Costs They Incurrred in 2023 and 2024.
Municipalities Threateded to Go to Court Earlier this year if they did not receive compensation for this. The Chairman of the Association of Dutch Municipalities, Sharon Dijksma, Said Last Week that She was happy that the case would not go to court.
The Money Comes from the Pots for the long-term care act and the health insurance act, which the Government will spend less on in 2025 than expected.
SHOOF: ‘Cannot Afford Standstill’ Furthermore, Accordance to Schoof, Attempts will be made to implement as many plans as Possible in Parliament, such as the new asylum laws. “We have a shared responsibility not to bring the Netherlands to a standstill. We cannot afford a standstill.” He hopes that a new cabinet will be formed quickly after the elections so that the problems in the Netherlands can be tackled.
SHOOF HOPES Parties will find Each Other Duration Debate Outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof looks ahead to the debates on the budget, which will start Tomorrow. “It will undoubtedly be a campaign debate, but I hope it will also be a debate where we can find each other.”
Long-awaited extra nitrogen plans fail to materialize the cabinet promised in the spring to come with extra plans for nitrogen reduction on Prinsjesdag. But this promise is not bee kept. Outgoing Minister of Agriculture Femke Wiersma Will Receive 2.6 Billion Euros from a Pot Of Money That was already reserved for her. The Billions Will Go Towards A Voluntary Buy-Out Scheme, Nature Management and Innovation, Among Other Things. These Measures Were Already Known.
Purchasing Power is Increasing, But Mainly Due to Economic Developments Households Can Expect An Increase in Purchasing Power of An Average of 1.3 percent, but this is Mainly Due to Economic Developments and Less to Policy. Employees Will Receive An Average or 4.2 percent from Their Employer. That is more than Enough to compensate for the expected inflation of 2.3 percent.
Benefits and Pensions are also rising sufficiently to keep up with the increase in the Average Price Level, Accordination to the Purchasing Power Figures from the Ministry of Social Affairs. Furthermore, Automatic Adjustments in The Tax and Benefits System Ensure That Many People Receive Something Extra. The Rising Health Insurance Premium Has a Limited Dampening Effect on Purchasing Power.
The Most Important and Expive Purchasing Power Measure That The Outgoing Cabinet is Taking On Prinsjesdag does not Reach About A Quarter Of Households. They do not have a car and therefore do not benefit from the extension of the discount on fuel excise densions, which Involves 1.7 Billion Euros.
Subsidy for offshore wind Farms Returns The Outgoing Cabinet is Using Just Under 1 Billion Euros from the Climate Fund to Support the Construction of Wind Farms in the North Sea. In recent years, it has or legs Possible to have new parks build without subsidies, but that now threatens to fail. Wind Farm Builders Are Faced with Higher Costs and the Demand for Green Electricity is not Growing Fast Enough, Mainly Due to Slow Sustainability in Industry.
Several Wind Farms Are Therefore Being Delayed. At two new wind Farms that will be tendered next year, subsidies will again be avialable for the developers. These will only be paid out if energy prices are low and energy companies Cannot Recoup Their Costs Themselves.
Extra Money for Women’s Shelters Too The Cabinet is Allocating An Extra 12 Million Euros to Shelters for Women who can no longer live at home, for example Due to Domestic Violence. The Amount is available for the Municipalities have not spent care money from other budgets. They can now realize extra shelters for women. The Cabinet Will also Talk to the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) to Ensure That The Money Is Actually Used For Extra Shelter Places.
In The Speech from the Throne, The King Letterly Mentioned Violence Against Women. “We Cannot accept that girls and women do not feel safe on the street.”
Cabinet After Request from Parliament: Extra Money for Safety in Public Transport The Outgoing Cabinet is Allocating 32 Million Euros for Safety in Public Transport. Or This, 12 Million Euros is Intended for the Purchase of Bodycams for NS Employees. 20 Million Euros Will Be Showable for Safety at Stations.
With the money for the bodycams, State Secretary Thierry Aartsen (Infrastructure, VVD) is implementing an Agreement from Last Year’s Coalition Agreement. An Overhelming Majority in Parliament Called this Spring To Put “Everything On Everything” to Arrange This.
Extra Money for Prisons In 2028 State Secretary Arno Rutte (Justice and Security) is Investing An Extra 35 Million Euros in Prisons in 2028. That amount will Increase euros per year from 2031. This Money Shoull Shoull shortage Vallion Vallage Vallion Vallion Vollure Vallion Vollure Vallion Vollure Vallion Vollure Vallion Vollure Village Vallion Village Vallion Vallion Harreveld.
Last Spring, Rutte’s predecessor Ingrid Coenradie Asked the Cabinet for 500 Million euros per year to eliminate the cell shortage. To her disappointment, she was not promised a euro in the interim adjustment of the budget. This Summer, the House of Representatives Somewhat accommodated Her Ministry by Spending 75 Million Euros to Reduce the Cell Shortage. This amount was paid from a pot that was actually intended for the establishment of a constitutional court.
Climate Target for 2030 Seems Unattainable, New Cabinet Policy has Little Effect The Climate Target for 2030 HAS Become Virtualy Unattainable. New Cabinet Plans to Get Closer to the Legal Target Have Made Hardly Any Difference in The Past Year.
Heinen Happy With Balanced Budget Furthermore, The Cabinet is not passing on any Bills. “You have a balanced budget before you.” With Slight Pride, Heinen Says That There Were No Negotiations On The Budget Deep Into The Night. “That happened without midnight snacks and leftover apples at the ministry of finance.” With that, Heinen concludes his speech to the house of representatives.
Cabinet Reverses Cutbacks on Guidance For Vulnerable Students The Cutbacks On The Educational Opportunities Scheme, which Provides Vulnerable Students in Secondary Education with More Guuidance, Has Been Reversed. That Scheme was scrapped in The Spring Memorandum, But a Majority of the House of Representatives Called on the Cabinet to Reconsider This.
That has now happened. At the same time, the ministry of education, culture and science still has to make cutbacks. It is not Yet Possible to say Exactly What Those Cutbacks Will Look Like At That Ministry.
Three Major Tasks for the Cabinet There Are Three Major Tasks That the Cabinet Must Focus On In The Coming Year, Heinen Continues. One of them is security, for which much more is be invested in Defense. It should also not be necessary for women to walk home with keys between their fingers and for parents to be afraid that their children will not come home.
Accordance to the outgoing minister, the other major tasks are the economy and the wallets of middle-income earners.
Heinen says hey to turn the tide and is positive. The economy is growing, he says. “There have never leg so many jobs, the national debt is low and buychasing power is rising,” he continues.
The Outgoing Minister of Finance Thinks IT is “Eternally A Shame” that he is now standing here on Behalf of An Outgoing Cabinet. Hey also Emphasizes that it is time to tackle problems.
The history of the briefcase Since 1946, the minister of finance has presented the National Budget and the Million-Dollar Bill in a Special Lettercase. The Very First Lettercase was Purchased at a Leather Store in the Hague for (Converted) 1.70 euros. The inscription “Third Tuesday of September” was Applied in Gold Paper Letters. Gold Paint was later used for this.
The Current Briefcase is a gift from State Printer Sdu on the occasion of its 150th Anniversary in 1964. The briefcase Actually only contains part of the national budget. The entire budget does not fit in it. Part of the Documents Will Therefore Be Handed Out to the Speaker of the House of Representatives later.
In 1988, minister Onno Ruding produced a miniature letter case containing the budget and note on microfiche. Eleven Years later, minister Gerrit Zalm produced a miniature Version with the budget on CD-ROM. And in 2012, minister Kees de Jager Tok a tablet out of the letter case, on which he had put the budget documents online via a Special Prinsjesdag app.
Heinen with briefcase on the way to the house of representatives outgoing minister Eelco Heinen (finance) is on his way with the letter case to the house of representatives, where he will present the Million-Dollar Bill and the National Budget.
Van Hijum: ‘Working on Purchasing Power Recovery’ NSC Leader Eddy van Hijum Wants to Work on Restoring Purchasing Power, Abolishing “The Complicated Allowance System” and Stimulating House Construction, Among Other Things. In The Coming Weeks, the Wants To “Make A Difference” with NSC from the House of Representatives and Help Good Plans Gain a Majority. The Party Has Nineteen Seats in the House of Representatives.
Van der Plas: ‘Common-sensense budget’ BBB Member Caroline van der Plas Reactively to the Cabinet’s Plans for Next Year. Accordance to her, they are in line with the “major concerns of the ordinary Dutch person”. She calls it a “common-sensense budget”. Van der Plas Sees That, Among Other Things, The Asylum Policy is “Being Overhauled” and the Housing Shortage is Being Tackled.
In the #speechfromthethron, The King Spoke About Major Concerns That People Have at Home, But also about the Strength of Our Country.
That is also our task as politicians, as far as i am groups. Solving the Problems That Dutch People are Losing Sleep over. Ensuring that we keep people safe in this …
Dilan Yesilgöz (VVD) Emphasizes that the coming year must be focused on the growth of the economy and making the Netherlands Stronger and Safer. Shey Wants To See A “Center-Right Cabinet” On The Podium Quickly After the Elections. She would also like to see the bbb or ja21 in it.
Wilders: ‘CONSEQUESCES ARE LONGER FORESEEBLE’ Geert Wilders (PVV) Also Emphasizes That Politics has looked away from the Major Problems for Too Long. “Such as immigration and the consequences are no longer foreseeable. It is high time that a new cabinet came that our and for all put to the open borders policy and restores safety in our streets.” In the speech from the throne, the king also spoke about migration, which the cabinet must quickly gain control of, and the safety of people on the streets.
Jetten: “Real Breakthroughs Failed to Materialize” “Real Breakthroughs Failed to Materialize Due to Squabbling In The Cabinet,” Writes Rob Jetten (D66) in His Reaction to the Speech from the Throne. He calls the Million-Dollar Bill, which traditional leaks out in part, a “disappointment”. “While Dutch People are Asking for Courage, Vision and Solutions: for an affordable Home, Good Education and Climate.”
Bikker: ‘No Solutions in Speech from the Throne for Major Problems’ Meanwhile, Reactions from Various Politicians to the Speech from the Throne Are Trickling. Accordance to Mirjam Bikker (CU), It Became “Crystal Clear” That a New Government is needed. “A Government That Will Tackle the Major Problems of Today.” She also said that the speech from the throne lacked solutions to those problems. “Allowance Parents, Young Families and Farmers Hope For Perspective, But See A Political System That Is Turned in On Itelf, Mired in Chaos.”
The King also Expressed Conerns About, Among Other Things, The War in Ukraine. The Outgoing Cabinet Wants To Put An End To The “Bloodshed” As Soon As Possible. The Netherlands Will Continue to Work for a Lasting Peace in Ukraine. “Everyone also wants to put an end” to “the human suffering in Gaza”.
But Safety on the Streets in the Netherlands is also a point of Attention. Women, People with a Kippah or Same-Sex Loved Ones Still Experience a Lot Of Insecurity, Says The King.
The King Mentions a Number of Positive Developments. For Example, Four New Locations for Housing Construction Are Being Designated, The Fuel Excise Duty Remains in Place and Purchasing Power is Increasing.
Furthermore, Parliament Will Focus on finalizing the migration legislation in order to gain control of migration, says the king. The recovery operations will also be at the top of the priority list, So That, Among Others, Victims of the Benefits Scandal Will Be Compensated Quickly.
In The Speech from the Throne, The King Speaks About Polariazation. People are increasingly standing opposite each other online, at universities and in the Hague, he says. Accordance to the king, the cabinet has an important role to play in this, because in a democracy there should be “the willingness to sacrifice each other a hand in a mature way across the differentences”.
The King Speaks about the Nato Summit in the Hague in June, which is called historic in the speech from the throne. Due to the major international changes, it is necessary to significantly