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.
Some just won’t accept the evidence on decriminalization.
One in three Dutch livestock farmers could lose their business.
Soldiers get a raise, the Air Force six F-35s and four Reaper drones.
There is not enough housing for immigrants.
Far from trusting the market, politicians won’t leave housing alone.
Banning the sale of cannabis could cause a surge in street crime.
Foreign journalists thought this Dutch finance minister would be different.
The Dutch government was warned many times Russia could not be trusted and bought its gas anyway.
Earthquakes in Groningen, dirty coal mines in Poland and leaky Soviet-era gas pipes in Russia.
Why are firms reluctant to hire full-time employees?
Investments in climate, child care and defense; nuclear power and government-funded weed.
Why it took so long and what happens next.
A Franco-German plan to relax antitrust rules is defeated.
A deal between two of the negotiating parties was found on a train.