Emergency services workers tackling incidents across the Netherlands were repeatedly assaulted during the New Year's Eve period, leaving dozens of police officers injured. Incidents reported in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and smaller cities involved police officers and fire fighters being pelted with powerful firecrackers. The police unions called for an immediate end to violence targeting emergency workers.
Members of the Tweede Kamer is not at all confident that the great ambitions of Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge will be able to be accomplished. De Jonge wants about 900,000 additional homes to be built in the Netherlands by 2030, but the question now is whether that will succeed, thanks to a combination of factors, like rising interest rates, more expensive building materials, the nitrogen emissions crisis and unenthusiastic investors. So far, De Jonge has acknowledged there are "headwinds" facing the construction of housing, but he has refused to adjust his plan.
A majority in the Tweede Kamer will support a PvdA and ChristenUnie proposal to outlaw temporary leases. The introduction of temporary rental contracts of up to two years was meant to make more rental properties available. That did not happen. Instead, they lead to unnecessary stress and high moving costs for tenants, according to MPs Pieter Grinwis (CU) and Henk Nijboer (PvdA).