The four coalition parties that made up Rutte IV - VVD, D6t, CDA, and ChristenUnie - all lost seats in yesterday’s election. Of the 78 seats the parties won in the 2021 elections, just over half remain. According to the latest forecast from the ANP Election Service, the four parties are good for only 41 seats.
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded 22 years in prison for a 31-year-old man for his involvement in the murder of the Nijmegen handyman Mehmet Kiliçsoy, better known as the mistaken identity murder in Beuningen. A year ago, the court sentenced six suspects to prison terms ranging from five to 30 years for the murder.
The Dutch Restitution Committee stated on Tuesday that an ivory relief of Mary with a child from the collection of the city of Rotterdam should be returned to the successors of the A.S. Drey art firm, a German-Jewish Drey family business, due to its forced sale under the Nazi regime.