New Dutch Cabinet will have fewer Ministers, but four deputy Prime Ministers: report nltimes.nl - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nltimes.nl Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Intended Prime Minister Dick Schoof joining first Cabinet formation meeting today nltimes.nl - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nltimes.nl Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Tweede Kamer wants to know as soon as possible whether, and if so, which Dutch politicians have been bribed by Russia. As long as this information is unknown, suspicions will hang over the political parties and the European elections in June, and that is harmful, the parliamentarians agreed in a debate on the Czech Republic's revelation of a Russian disinformation and bribery campaign, NOS reports.
If outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte is appointed Secretary General of NATO before there is a new Cabinet, Rutte can remain Prime Minister. The position as supreme head of NATO is "not necessarily incompatible" with the office of prime minister, but in practice it is undesirable, said Bert van den Braak, specialist professor of parliamentary history and parliamentary system. "I cannot imagine that this will happen," he claimed.
In The Hague, negotiations have resumed between the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB about forming a new government. Last week, the leaders of the four parties and their seconds met at De Zwaluuwenberg Estate to discuss a new government under the leadership of formation informant Ronald Plasterk.