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Opposition parties are increasingly uneasy about the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB coalition. The coalition parties are refusing to release an analysis of their coalition agreement, which reportedly shows that the future Cabinet will have multiple legal hurdles to cross to implement the plans therein, some of which are at odds with the Constitution. Opposition parties also have concerns about the choice of Dick Schoof as the new Prime Minister.

Minister Franc Weerwind is highly critical of two proposed amendments adopted by the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of parliament, that would allow the recording of conversations between prisoners and their lawyers. The outgoing minister said that these plans for high-security prisons violate the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). He is therefore asking the Advisory Division of the Council of State for an urgent opinion.

The experiment to sell legally produced cannabis in coffeeshops in ten municipalities is meeting with a lot of resistance in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament. The experiment started at the end of last year, after it had been postponed several times and had been discussed in The Hague for over ten years. There is little enthusiasm for the trial in the new Kamer. The largest party, PVV, even wants to pause it until a coalition agreement is reached.

A debate over whether to legalize hard drugs in the Netherlands broke out between caretaker Justice and Security Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz and D66 MP Joost Sneller during a discusson on Thursday about her ministry’s budget. Yeşilgöz said it was far too late to legalize drugs, and said it was “naive” to think that a discussion about this can still be had in the Netherlands.

The police intelligence services unlawfully monitored entire population groups, the Supervisory Committee of the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD) said. In the four-month period between February 23 and July 1, 2022, they crossed that line three times, NOS reports.