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1 minutes ago
‘This is how you help the country to the Penarie’ Timmermans interrumps Yesilgöz for the first time. He had expected some more self -reflection after the VVD was at the helm of the national administration for fifteen years. According to the GL-PvdA leader, Yesilgöz wants to return to a center-right cabinet. Such a cabinet dropped the VVD itself two years ago. “This is how you help the country to the Penarie,” says Timmermans. According to him, employers are also critical of the policy of the canceled years. “Political chaos is disastrous for the investment climate,” said business organization VNO-NCW this week.
Yesilgöz says that she wants to help companies. For example, by not increasing taxes, as GL-PVDA wants. This is mainly about polluting companies that receive an extra tax in the plans of Timmermans. Yesilgöz repeats her mantra: “Companies are not the ATM in the Netherlands.”
13 minutes ago
D66 people Wieke Paulusma and Rob Jetten in conversation with Jimmy Dijk (SP).
20 minutes ago
Yesilgöz: ‘Climate policy has also become a safety policy’ Laurens Dassen (Volt) is very concerned about the cabinet’s climate policy. Yesterday, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) concluded that the climate goal before 2030 became virtually unfeasible. New cabinet plans To get closer to the legal goal have hardly made any difference in the past year.
“Climate policy has also become safety policy,” says Yesilgöz, who points to a changing world. The VVD certainly still has ambitions, but “you don’t have to go blindly for ambitions and forgetting realism,” she says.
28 minutes ago
Ja21 and VVD once about the importance of companies Joost Eerdmans of JA21, Yesilgöz holds that companies are increasingly thinking about leaving the Netherlands. This is not only due to the last two years, and therefore to the previous cabinet, but also to the ten to fifteen years before. What does the VVD member think of that?
That is of course a buyer for Yesilgöz. The party is proud to stand up for entrepreneurs and to ensure a good business climate. That “all traffic lights are on red” for companies, as employers’ organization MKB-Nederland said this week, is not nice.
Just like Eerdmans, Yesilgöz is worried about this. “We are very close together,” the VVD member ultimately concludes. It may be clear that this interruption was intended to show that the parties fully agree on this point.
32 minutes ago
Bontenbal is looking for collaboration with VVD CDA leader Bontenbal intervenes for the first time in the debate and clearly does not seek the confrontation with the VVD. Together with Yesilgöz, he wants to tackle the regulatory pressure. The outgoing cabinet must make an inventory of which rules are superfluous, so that the upcoming forming parties can get started immediately.
As expected, this fits perfectly in the street of Yesilgöz. She once again accompanies that VVD minister Karremans recently came up with a plan to delete five hundred lines.
47 minutes ago
From left to right: outgoing ministers Vincent Karremans (Economic Affairs), Sophie Hermans (climate), Mona Keijzer (public housing and asylum) and outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof who returns to the room after the lunch break.
48 minutes ago
Yesilgöz about nitrogen plans: ‘Every step is one’ jetten (D66) wants to know from Yesilgöz what she thinks of the cabinet’s nitrogen plans. He points out the VVD leader to the great economic damage caused by the nitrogen crisis.
Outgoing agriculture minister Femke Wiersma came up with her supplementary package yesterday that should reduce emissions. To the frustration of Jetten there were few new plans, while Wiersma promised to come up with additional policy this spring.
“Every step in the right direction is one,” is the answer from Yesilgöz.
The room will soon be debating nitrogen again. Chances are that there will no longer be a majority for the course of Wiersma, now that NSC has also left the cabinet. Just like the VVD, the former government party was often critical of the lack of decisiveness. Yet they remained patient so far.
55 minutes ago
VVD: Purchasing power law must help workers financially Yesilgöz is satisfied with “the sturdy budget” that is now there. There is a purchasing power increase for all income groups. NSC leader Eddy van Hijum responds to this. Because the VVD has included a “purchasing power law” in the election program, which states that “workers have to improve more every year in purchasing power than non-working people.”
The income gap between people who work and those who don’t work only gets bigger, says Van Hijum. Why would you want that, he wonders? And besides: non -working people are also people who cannot or are retired. According to Yesilgöz, the differences are not at all large. The VVD member therefore believes that working is not pays off. “We want to anchor that in the law.”
1 hour ago
VVD leader Yesilgöz focuses on responsibility The debate has again started with the contribution of Yesilgöz. The VVD leader immediately calls on the coalition and opposition to bear responsibility together. “We have to show that we take our task seriously.”
BBB leader Van der Plas already had the same kind of argument yesterday. She called on the opposition not to “riots” now that the outgoing cabinet is only leaning on 32 seats. Incidentally, it is one of the tasks of the opposition to make it difficult for a cabinet.
VVD and BBB are still in the government.
1 hour ago
After a regulation of work, in which MPs can request debates, the general political considerations went further. The public gallery is full again.
1 hour ago
Five parties more often in debates than PVV for the lunch break, Wilders (Volt) was attacked by the absence of the PVV in debates. Wilders denied this, but figures from the Central Information Point of the Lower House shows that there are five smaller parties that have been more often with plenary debates.
This is GL-PvdA, NSC, VVD, D66 and BBB. The latter two parties have nine and eight seats. That is almost thirty less than the PVV has.
The PVV is present in 79 percent of the 371 commission debates and in 53 percent of the plenary debates. In these figures no distinction is made between regular and final (two -minute debates), in which MPs can submit motions.
1 hour ago
Debate is hardly about Budget Memorandum The debate will start again. For the time being it is not about the Budget Memorandum, not very surprising. That actually rarely happens during the general political considerations. Even though those debates have been scheduled to talk about the cabinet plans for the coming year.
Party leaders mainly use the debate to bring their party points to the attention. After all, there will be elections in a few weeks. For example, PVV leader Wilders was mainly about his asylum agenda for the past two hours. And why he got out of the cabinet. The interruptions are also mainly party points.
During Prinsjesdag yesterday there was also little new policy. Logical, because the cabinet only consists of VVD and BBB. Those two parties only have 32 seats.
2 hours ago
Wilders’ contribution is over after more than two hours. The room is now going to have lunch until 1.45 pm, after which VVD leader Yesilgöz.
2 hours ago
Timmermans tries to get Wilders behind the plan again to treat seriously injured or sick children from Gaza in the Netherlands. That appears in vain: Wilders maintains that according to PVV, those children can be helped better in the region. Last week a motion to bring those children to the Netherlands was narrowly rejected.
2 hours ago
Stoffer (SGP) shares concerns about the wolf, as is often the case with the general political considerations, many different topics pass by. For example, SGP leader Stoffer wants to know from Wilders if he is sharing his worries about the wolf. The SGP believes that there is no room for the animal in the Netherlands.
The outgoing cabinet is working on tackling problem wolves, but the Chamber may explain this policy part controversially. That means that the government is not allowed to continue with the plans. Stoffer calls on Wilders not to agree, but Wilders does not want to share the PVV’s position.
2 hours ago
No interruptions from Yesilgöz for Wilders Wilders is now almost two hours. A lot more than the forty minutes for which he has registered. This is due to the many interruptions that the PVV leader receives. Remarkably, not from BBB leader Van der Plas and VVD member Yesilgöz.
This is particularly striking for Yesilgöz. The VVD member reproaches Wilders for running away from the cabinet and does not want to take responsibility. “A voice on Wilders is a lost voice,” she said at the party congress.
Since the break, Yesilgoz has been excluding the PVV for the next cabinet. Since then, the debates between Wilders and Yesilgöz have been venomous. Incidentally, the bond between the two party leaders was also somewhat hostile when they were still in the cabinet together.
3 hours ago
Bikker against Wilders: “Let’s guard religious freedom” after Wilders holds an argument against Islam, CU leader Bikker steps forward. In contrast to the PVV leader, it is not a danger to the Netherlands, unlike the PVV leader. On the contrary, she is worried that fewer and fewer people are rooted in a belief, and especially in the Christian faith.
“Let us start to maintain religious freedom. And no religions go bashen,” she says in the direction of Wilders. She does not want to go to a situation such as “in the Middle East where you as a Christian can’t go free on the street”.
3 hours ago
Wilders provoked to look wider than just asylum seekers Wilders reads a whole list with places where according to the PVV leader AZCs are. That number of “hundreds of AZCs” has grown because the Spreading Act has not been withdrawn, he believes. Currently, COA has 314 reception locations and there are still reception locations at municipalities themselves. Last year the COA had 304 reception locations.
That list gives him interruptions of Timmermans and Jetten, who are trying to provoke the PVV player to give his opinion about more than just asylum seekers. According to Timmermans, Wilders only talks about this to “deduce from the fact that he has not delivered anything” and the PVV player gives “a false image of our country”. For example, he points out Wilders that there are also a lot of nuisance and abuses around labor migrants.
Jetten uses it as a bridge to talk about the safety of Ukraine (and the people who fled from that country). According to the D66 member, Wilders is screaming for “90 percent”, but when he is asked about safety in Ukraine, Jetten gets “whispering”.
3 hours ago
Dennis Bergkamp gets a small roll in the debate Somehow Dennis Bergkamp has crept into the debate. Timmermans started with that when he started that he and Wilders came to the Chamber for the first time in 1998. “In that year, Bergkamp scored that nice goal against Argentina,” says Timmermans.
Moments later, Volt leader Dassen says that it might be time for new politics. “In 1998 I was only a little boy,” he tells the PVV leader. “You are still that,” Wilders immediately recalls. Laughter can be heard in the room. Chamber chairman Bosma suddenly mixes in the conversation. “To stay in football terms: this was a buyer.”
Wilders starts to laugh and takes a few steps from the pulpit. It is one of the few jolly moments in the so far sharp debate.
3 hours ago
Wilders denies that PVV is relatively often absent from Debates Volt leader Laurens Dassen wonders how Wilders can maintain that he has not had a share in the “political chaos” and points out that, among other things, the PVV “is never present with important debates”. Complaints about the absence of PVV people (who have 37 seats in the Chamber) also came from other opposition parties earlier. In addition, NOS and RTL, among others, concluded last summer on the basis of requested figures that PVV was relatively often absent compared to parties with fewer seats.
Wilders denies that and reads other figures requested by him. According to him, the figures are different because he does not count a continuation of a commission debate in which MPs can submit motions. But whether the presence of PVV is so in proportion to parties with fewer MPs, the PVV does not comment on that.
3 hours ago
Wilders would also have liked to keep the Zuyderland completely open, SP leader Dijk also tells Wilders that the PVV ministers in healthcare have done nothing. Such as keeping the Zuyderland Hospital in Heerlen fully open. Or why he did not adjust some taxes for the rich.
Wilders replies that some things just don’t always work. The Zuyderland Hospital would have preferred the PVV to have kept completely open, Wilders admits. In addition, he is not even even with many SP points. Such as the consideration of the inheritance tax.
4 hours ago
Jetten points out Wilders that he was the buttons, Rob Jetten (D66) also points out Wilders that he could have taken responsibility as a coalition party. He repeats Wilders’ words that “the Netherlands would be on the edge of national suicide”. “Quite texts from the man who said a year ago that the sun would shine again in the Netherlands,” says Jetten. “In the year that the sun would shine again, everything went wrong”, but it was Wilders who was on the buttons, the D66 leader emphasizes.
Wilders repeats that he has been opposed by other parties. “If agreements have been made and we are being opposed, then say ‘we will look at it, but I will go to the voter again’.”
4 hours ago
Wilders believes that he has been opposed in the Coalition Wilders and Timmermans are now very fierce against each other. The GL-PVDA leader reproaches Wilders for the chance to make policy when he stepped into the cabinet, but that failed. “You didn’t do anything zero Nada.”
But Wilders thinks he is “opposed” in the coalition. In addition, he mainly points to NSC. For example, he was not a prime minister and no emergency legislation was used to take far -reaching asylum measures. PVV minister Faber was responsible for that emergency legislation, but she found no legal substantiation for that.
4 hours ago
Wilders: ‘I learned from the PvdA’ Wilders responds with a noticeable incident from the past. In 2012, PvdA member Samsom negotiated with VVD leader Rutte for a cabinet. That cabinet remained sitting and made important reforms, but the voter mercilessly punished the PvdA because they were painful measures for the party. “I learned from the PvdA,” says Wilders about that. “The voter saw that the PvdA was fooled.” That is why he now got out of the cabinet because he thinks he can no longer give his voters what he has promised.
Timmermans cites the woman from the previous campaign, which Wilders said that she “can’t wait” to abolish the Eigern risk in healthcare. That was an important moment, the PVV started to rise in the polls and became the largest party. In the meantime, nothing has happened to the deductible. “That lady couldn’t wait? She can wait another ten years to you. You don’t care,” Timmermans told Wilders.
4 hours ago
Timmermans about Wilders: ‘You are a runaway’ GL-PVDA leader Frans Timmermans blames Wilders that he “promises heaven”, but at the end of the ride does not blame others and blames others. “Again by blaming NSC.”
“You are a runaway,” says Timmermans. “The country has been standing still for years and the trust in politics has plummeted. That is because of the PVV, as the largest party in the Chamber.”
4 hours ago
Van Baarle clashes with Wilders about Baarle’s language use asks Wilders if he realizes that “with his words he ensures that Dutch mosques, refugees, women with a headscarf, are harassed in this country and are unsafe?”. He has a map with him that have received several Dutch mosques, which contains a text smeared with red liquid in which it is said that “Islam is no better than Nazism”.
“I don’t quit anywhere,” Wilders was’ answer that. Yet he does distance himself from “intimidating and threatening anyone, including to mosques”. “But I keep naming the truth here,” says the PVV player.
4 hours ago
Van Hijum: Wilders had the chance of strict asylum policy “Everyone thinks we should stop the inflow and the criminal rig must leave the country”, Wilders continues. According to him, immigrants are over -represented in sexual crimes and assaults. The PVV wants a strict asylum policy after the elections.
That could have been there before the PVV left the cabinet, NSC leader Eddy van Hijum Wilders is ahead. “Wilders had the chance to turn the strictest asylum policy ever into policy. Only the PVV asylum minister was concerned about ribbons and outings for asylum seekers to Efteling,” says Van Hijum.
4 hours ago
Wilders: ‘We lose our country’ PVV leader Geert Wilders kicks off. He does not start with his written text, but with an email he received this morning from a 28-year-old woman. She was mistreated during her work on a garbage truck, she writes. Because they were Moroccans according to the Mailer, it is typically “the Netherlands of today”.
“Not integrating by non-Western immigrants makes our country more unsafe.” Wilders often reads emails in the plenary debate hall, often with this meaning. “We lose our country,” he says.
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1 minute ago
‘This is How You Help the Country Into Trouble’ Timmermans Interrupts Yesilgöz for the First Time. He had expected a little more self-reflection after the vvd had Been at the helmet of the national government for fifteen years. Accordance to the GL-PVDA Leader, Yesilgöz Wants to Return to a Center-Right Cabinet. The VVD itsself Abandoned Such A Cabinet Two Years ago. “This is how you help the country into trouble,” Says Timmermans. Accordance to Him, Employers Are Also Critical of the Policy of Recent Years. “Political Chaos is Disastrous for the Investment Climate,” Employers “Organization VNO-NCW Announced This Week.
Yesilgöz Says That She Wants To Help Companies. For Example, by not raising taxes, As GL-PvdA Wants. This Mainly Concerns Polluting Companies That Will Receive An Additional Levy in Timmermans’ Plans. Yesilgöz repeats her mantra: “Companies are not the Netherlands’ ATM.”
13 minutes ago
D66 Members Wieke Paulusma and Rob Jetten in Conversation with Jimmy Dijk (SP).
20 minutes ago
Yesilgöz: ‘Climate Policy has also Become Security Policy’ Laurens Dassen (Volt) is very concerned about the Cabinet’s Climate Policy. Yesterday, The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) Concluded that the 2030 Climate Target Has Become Virtualy Unachievable. New Cabinet Plans to Get Closer To The Legal Target Have Made Little Difference in The Past Year.
“Climate Policy has also Become Security Policy,” Says Yesilgöz, Who Points to a Changing World. The VVD Certainly Still Has Ambitions, But “You shouldnn’t Blindly Rely on Ambitions and Forget Realism,” She says.
28 minutes ago
JA21 and VVD agree on the importance of companies Joost Eerdmans from Ja21 Tells Yesilgöz That Companies are increasingly Considering Leaving the Netherlands. This is not only due to the last two years, and therefore to the previous cabinet, but also to the ten to fifteen years before that. What does the vvd member think of that?
That is of course an easy one for yesilgöz. The party prides itself on standing up for entrepreneurs and ensuring a good business climate. The fact that “All Traffic Lights are Red” for Companies, As Employers’ Organization MKB-Nederland Said This Week, is not good.
Like Eerdmans, Yesilgöz is a concerned about this. “We are very close to each other,” The VVD member concludes in the end. It should be clear that this interruption was intended to show that the parties are in complete agreement on this point.
32 minutes ago
Bontenbal Seeks Cooperation with VVD CDA Leader Bontenbal is intervening in the Debate for the first time and is clearly not seijs confrontation with the vvd. The Wants To Tackle the Regulatory Burden Together with Yesilgöz. The outgoing cabinet must inventory which rules are unnecessary, so that the upcoming forming parties can get to work on this immediately.
As Expected, This Fits in Perfectly with Yesilgöz’s plans. She pointss out once again that VVD minister Karremans recently came up with a plan to scrap five hungred rules.
47 minutes ago
From Left to Right: Outgoing Ministers Vincent Karremans (Economic Affairs), Sophie Hermans (Climate), Mona Keijzer (Housing and Asylum) and Outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof who Return to the House After The Lunch Break.
48 minutes ago
Yesilgöz on Nitrogen Plans: ‘Every Step is one’ jetten (D66) Wants to Know from Yesilgöz What She Thinks of the Cabinet’s Nitrogen Plans. He pointss out to the vvd leader the major economic damage caused by the nitrogen crisis.
Outgoing Minister of Agriculture Femke Wiersma Came Yesterday with Her additional Package That Should Reduce Emissions. To Jetten’s Frustration, There Were Few New Plans, While Wiersma Promised This Spring To Come Up With Additional Policies.
“Every step in the right direction is one,” is Yesilgöz’s Answer.
The House Will Soon Debate Nitrogen Again. There is a good chance that will no longer be a majority for wiersma’s course, now that nsc has also the cabinet. The Former Governing Party, Like the VVD, had Been Critical of the Lack of Decisiveness. Yet They Remained Patient Until Now.
55 minutes ago
VVD: Purchasing Power Law Must Financally Help Working People Yesilgöz Is Satisfied with “The Solid Budget” That Is Now in Place. There is an increase in Purchasing Power for All Income Groups. NSC Leader Eddy van Hijum Jumps in here. Because the VVD has been included a “Purchasing Power Law” in its Election Program, which “Working People Must Improve More in Purchasing Power Than Non-Working People.”
The income gap between people who work and those who do not only widens, Says van Hijum. Why would you want that, hey wonders? And Bears: non-working people are also people who canot or are retired. Accordance to Yesilgöz, The Differences are not that great at all. The VVD Member Therefore Believes That Working Does Not Pay Off. “We want to enhrine that in law.”
1 hour ago
VVD Leader Yesilgöz Focuses on Responsibility The Debate Has Started Again with Yesilgöz’s Contribution. The VVD Leader Immediately Calls On The Coalition and Opposition to Share Responsibility. “We must show that we take our task seriously.”
BBB Leader van der Plas Already Made a Similar Argument Yesterday. She called on the opposition not to “riot” now that the outgoing cabinet is only based on 32 seats. It is also one of the tasks of the opposition to Make Things Difficult for a Cabinet.
VVD and BBB Are The Only Ones Still In The Government.
1 hour ago
After A Settlement of Activities, in which Members of Parliament Can Request Debates, The General Political Reflections Have Continued. The Public Gallery is full again.
1 hour ago
Five Parties More Often at Debates Than PVV Before The Lunch Break, Wilders was Attacked by Dassen (Volt) for the Absence of the PVV at Debates. Wilders Denied This, But Figures from the Central Information Point of the House of Representatives Show That Are Five Smaller Parties That Have Been More Often At Plenary Debates.
These are GL-PvdA, NSC, VVD, D66 and BBB. The Letter Two Parties Have Nine and Eight Seats. That is Almost Thirty Less than the PVV HAS.
The PVV is present at 79 percent of the 371 committee debates and at 53 percent of the plenary debates. These figures do not distinguish between regular and concluding (two-minute debates), in which Members of Parliament can submit motions.
1 hour ago
Debate is hardly about the budget memorandum The Debate Will Start Again Soon. So far, not very surprises, it is not about the budget memorandum. That Rarely Happens Turning the General Political Reflections. Just though Those Debates are planned to discuss the Cabinet’s Plans for the Coming Year.
Party Leaders Mainly Use The Debate to Bring Their Party Points to the Attention. After all, there are elections in a few week. For Example, PVV Leader Wilders Mainly Talked About His Asylum Agenda for the Past Two Hours. And why he left the cabinet. The Interruptions are also Mainly Party Points.
There were also few new policies. Logical, because the cabinet only consists of VVD and BBB. Those Two Parties Only Have 32 Seats.
2 hours ago
Wilders’ Contribution is over after more than two hours. The House Will Now Have Lunch Until 1.45 pm, After which VVD Leader Yesilgöz Will Speak.
2 hours ago
Timmermans is trying to get Wilders Back on board with the plan to treat seriously kured or sick children from Gaza in the Netherlands. That appears to be in Vain: Wilders Maintains That Those Children are Better Helped in The Region Accordination to PVV. Last week, a motion to bring those children to the Netherlands was narrowly rejected.
2 hours ago
Stoffer (SGP) Shares Conerns about the Wolf as is the case with the general political reflections, many Different Topics are discussed. For Example, SGP Leader Stoffer Wants To Know from Wilders Whether He Shares His Concerns About The Wolf. The SGP Believes that there is no place for the animal in the Netherlands.
The Outgoing Cabinet is Working on Tackling Problem Wolves, but the house May Declare this policy part controversial. This mean that the cabinet is not allowed to continuous with the plans. Stoffer calls on Wilders not to agree, but Wilders does not because to share the pvv’s position yet.
2 hours ago
No interruptions from Yesilgöz for Wilders Wilders Has Now Been Speaking for Almost Two Hours. Significantly more than the Forty Minutes for which he registered. This is due to the many interruptions that the PVV Leader Receives. Remarkly not from BBB Leader van der Plas and VVD Member Yesilgöz.
This is Especally striking for