Van Strien News Today

Dutch coalition talks have hit a stumbling block: migration.

The ice at the Iqaluit Curling Club appeared more puddled than pebbled Tuesday.

Without a full team and with Iqaluit’s curling rink currently unavailable, Nunavut withdrew from this year’s Canadian women’s curling championship.

Studies have reported widespread declines in terrestrial insect abundances in recent years1–4, but trends in other biodiversity metrics are less clear-cut5–7. Here we examined long-term trends in 923 terrestrial insect assemblages monitored in 106 studies, and found concomitant declines in abundance and species richness. For studies that were resolved to species level (551 sites in 57 studies), we observed a decline in the number of initially abundant species through time, but not in...

The political expert assigned to see if initial discussions can progress to the formation of a new Cabinet released his first report on Monday evening about the conversations he has had with party leaders following last month’s election.

The Party for Freedom, or PVV, led by veteran anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, won 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house on Wednesday, indicating a seismic shift to the right for the Netherlands.

A week after the elections, parties are struggling to agree about the nature of a ruling coalition in the Netherlands - or even when it should be discussed

A party ally of far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders on Monday quit his role in the building of a new governing coalition over fraud allegations, throwing the process of creating a new government into turmoil before it had begun. Gom van Strien, a senator for Wilders’ Party for Freedom, was appointed last week as…

Cabinet formation scout Ronald Plasterk must try to make up for the delay in the exploration process from today. The former PvdA Minister expressed hope to present a report next week, after which the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, can debate it. Plasterk will meet with the leaders of the four largest parties on Wednesday.

Mark Rutte’s government pandered to the anti-immigrant right while failing to address a benefits scandal, a housing crisis, and inflation.