Rutte Between Rock and Hard Place in Dutch Farm Crisis
Farmers feel betrayed by the center-right. Giving in to their demands would upset the left.
Farmers feel betrayed by the center-right. Giving in to their demands would upset the left.
A Franco-German plan to relax antitrust rules is defeated.
Few parties are willing to give the liberal prime minister a fourth term.
But center-right parties may want to think twice before forcing him out.
The long-ruling Dutch prime minister is suddenly vulnerable.
Mark Rutte and Pedro Sánchez caution against protectionism.
But his priorities may be different from theirs.
The newspaper makes it appear the Dutch prime minister said the opposite of what he meant.
Emmanuel Macron and Mark Rutte are on opposite ends of the debate.
It’s a way to attack a popular prime minister without mentioning him, but it could backfire.
Why the Dutch prime minister is fighting a €750 billion coronavirus recovery fund.
We have more in common with each other than we do with the woke left or the reactionary right.
The Dutch prime minister no longer has to rely on left-wing opposition parties.
The prime minister calls the crisis the worst of his career, yet the ruling parties remain popular.
The two center-right leaders may have moved too far to the middle.