{"id":555816,"date":"2026-01-31T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555816\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:51:13","slug":"the-new-dutch-government-has-big-plans-here-are-5-things-to-know-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555816\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Dutch government has big plans. Here are 5 things to know. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3. It will stay firm on migration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The previous government fell over migration, which remained a major campaign issue in the run-up to the election. Jetten positioned himself as the antithesis to far-right firebrand Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom has long claimed the topic.<\/p>\n<p>In the coalition text, the new government walks the tightrope of promising a strict immigration policy while trying not to echo Wilders too closely and alienate more progressive voters.<\/p>\n<p>The plan singles out the EU\u2019s migration reforms, including its plans to bolster deportations, as a \u201cfirst big step toward gaining more control over who comes to the Netherlands.\u201d The Dutch government will take a leading role in pushing for changes to international refugee law, including by hosting an asylum summit, according to the program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the text also states that the Netherlands will take a stance in EU talks about return and transit hubs to make sure that migrants are<strong> <\/strong>never sent to countries where they risk persecution, and put on hold a controversial deal with Uganda to use the African country as a transit point for rejected asylum seekers. <\/p>\n<p><strong>4. It\u2019s returning to Brussels\u2019 embrace\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a Euroskeptic tilt under the last Dutch government, Jetten is bringing the Netherlands back on a Brussels course, arguing for closer cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>That applies to defense, with the agreement setting a goal of 40 percent of procurement to be carried out \u201cjointly with European partners,\u201d as well as to migration.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. It will stay firm on migration The previous government fell over migration, which remained a major campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":555817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[11205,168293,168294,168295,22200,97328,1141,243265,8955,50,172429,99256,7841,103],"class_list":["post-555816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-defense-budgets","tag-dick-schoof","tag-dutch-election-2025","tag-dutch-politics","tag-european-politics","tag-geert-wilders","tag-health-care","tag-health-costs","tag-mark-rutte","tag-news","tag-rob-jetten","tag-social-affairs","tag-the-netherlands","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115988626469565781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}