‘More guidance from The Hague is welcome on large dossiers’

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The opposition parties want to know what nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal will spend the 24 billion euros of the transition fund on. This fund must be used to pay for the reduction of nitrogen emissions. ‘The criticism from the opposition fits in with the broader criticism of this cabinet’, says political communication researcher Bert Bakker at the University of Amsterdam.

The opposition parties want to know how nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal will spend the 24 billion euros from the transition fund.  This fund must be used to pay for the reduction of nitrogen emissions.
The opposition parties want to know how nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal will spend the 24 billion euros from the transition fund. This fund must be used to pay for the reduction of nitrogen emissions. (ANP / ANP / PHIL NIJHUIS)

No decisions are made on the major themes, according to Bakker. “They leave those decisions to others.” He sees this as justified criticism on a number of themes. ‘More guidance from The Hague is certainly welcome’.

There is a majority in favor of the transition fund in the House of Representatives, but not yet in the Senate. ‘You hear in the corridors that the cabinet first wants to see what happens in the formations in the provinces and at the table of the agricultural agreement before they let the Senate vote on this fund,’ says political reporter Leendert Beekman. In this way, the cabinet still has time to gain support from the left- or right-wing parties.

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Bakker thinks it is wise for the cabinet to wait. ‘The Netherlands has a rich tradition of getting all kinds of stakeholders to talk to each other in order to reach compromises. And I certainly think it is important to see what the outcome of the negotiations in the provinces will be.’ But after the coalition formations, the twelve provinces could arrive at different types of policy on this subject. This may not provide the unequivocal answer the cabinet hopes for. ‘I think that’s a risk,’ says Bakker.


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