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When Rianne Letschert, the Maastricht university professor moderating the formation of the next Dutch government, said a new cabinet was urgently needed to deal with the instability in the world, she might have been accused of having delusions of grandeur. As if the problems from Venezuela to Iran via Greenland could be quelled by Rob […]

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High hopes accompanied Willem Barentsz’s third expedition to Nova Zembla in 1596. After two previous failures, Barentsz set off in April 1596 in search of the north-east passage, the fabled route that would allow Dutch merchant ships to reach China and India via the Arctic Ocean. The second voyage, the previous year, had revealed a […]

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“We’re going to party tonight.” That was the incongruous reaction of Dilan Yesilgöz to leading the VVD to its worst election result in 54 years. Johan Cruyff was playing for Ajax when the right-wing liberal party last took less than 14.2% of the vote, which is where it landed last month. Since Yesilgöz succeeded Mark […]

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Two competing theories emerged from the general election in the Netherlands just over a week ago, in which the progressive-liberal D66 became the most popular party for the first time. The first, prevalent in the international media, is that the election was a triumph for the centre, for constructive politics and the can-do attitude of […]

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In an election campaign where parties’ fortunes have peaked and dipped like a ship in a storm, the poll ratings for GroenLinks-PvdA have been as solid as a granite rock. And like a granite rock, all the other sailors have gone to great lengths to avoid it. Frans Timmermans’ party briefly looked as if it […]

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