Outgoing prime minister Mark Rutte would prefer to keep his team together but thinks the situation regarding his ministers leaving is "explainable." In less than two months, D66 ministers Sigrid Kaag (Financials), Gunay Uslu (Media and Culture), and Ernst Kuipers (Public Health) have all resigned. Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra had already left for Brussels. Minister Liesje Schreinemacher (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) has been away on pregnancy leave since December.
The United States has approved the Netherlands and Demark’s plan to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine once Ukrainian pilots’ training is complete. According to a U.S. government official, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has informed the two countries by letter.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag will leave politics after the upcoming elections, to relieve her family of the burden of threats made to her, she said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.
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