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Le gouvernement néerlandais sous pression pour reconnaître enfin le génocide (...)

Le gouvernement néerlandais sous pression pour reconnaître enfin le génocide (...)
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Government under pressure to recognise Armenian genocide 'at last'

Image of Dutch parliament. Photo: Sisyfus via Wikimedia
The Dutch government is coming under renewed pressure to recognise the mass slaughter of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as an act of genocide.
Parliament will debate a motion on Thursday that calls on the cabinet to drop the qualified term ‘the question of the Armenian genocide’ when referring to the killing of up to 1.5 million between 1915 and 1917.
The motion, proposed by ChristenUnie MP Joël Voordewind, has the support of the former coalition parties VVD, CDA and the CU itself, as well as Geert Wilders’s PVV party, the Socialists (SP), GroenLinks, the Animal Rights Party (PvdD), 50Plus, Forum voor Democratie and two independents – comfortably enough for a majority.

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The Dutch Government's Benefits Scandal Is Rooted in Stigma Against Welfare Recipients - International Viewpoint

The Netherlands
Sunday 24 January 2021, by Kevyn Levie
Last Friday, the Dutch government had to resign in scandal, after thousands of parents were wrongly accused of making fraudulent childcare benefit claims. The affair was driven by racist demonization of welfare recipients deeply rooted in the country’s politics.
At least 26,000 families on the verge of bankruptcy, in more debt than they could repay in their entire lives. Countless people losing their homes, jobs, or partners. And one parent committing suicide after they were ordered to repay tens of thousands of euros. These were the effects of an extremely strict anti-fraud policy carried out by the Dutch tax administration for years — sparking a scandal over which the government led by Mark Rutte resigned last Friday.

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The fraud that wasn't - A benefits scandal sinks the Dutch government | Europe

But the prime minister will doubtless return

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Dutch government falls as deaths mount in COVID-19 pandemic

Dutch government falls as deaths mount in COVID-19 pandemic
On January 15, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced his government’s resignation ahead of national elections scheduled for March 17. He will head a caretaker government until then.
Rutte claimed that his resignation aimed to redress the wrong committed in a 2013-2019 welfare scandal, where the Dutch state falsely accused 26,000 parents of dual-national families of welfare fraud, improperly forcing them to pay back tens of thousands of euros in child benefit. “With this decision, the government wants to do justice to all those parents who have been unprecedentedly wronged,” Rutte said. “The rule of law should protect citizens from the all-powerful government, and that has gone horribly wrong here.”

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Rutte fiercely criticized in debate on allowance scandal; Admits responsibility

Rutte fiercely criticized in debate on allowance scandal; Admits responsibility
THE HAGUE - Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte was forced to rectify the idea that he was trying to avoid responsibility in the childcare allowance scandal during a debate on the affair and the Rutte III Cabinet's resignation. "Of course I was always directly responsible. I will not run way from that," he said in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, on Tuesday, NU.nl and NOS report.
Opposition parties SP, PVV, PvdA, and GroenLinks, and coalition party D66 all wanted Rutte to explain how in his 10 years as Prime Minister, he let things get this far. The Kamer was very critical of its own role in this scandal, but mainly focused on statements Rutte made in a press conference on Friday. While announcing the Rutte III government's resignation, Rutte said that he had no direct "involvement in this file". In the debate, Rutte stuck to the line that he only became directly involved in the summer of 2019, when it became clear how serious this affair was.

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Dutch MPs Grill PM Over Child Benefits Scandal

Dutch MPs grill PM over child benefits scandal

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Dutch PM and Cabinet quit over child welfare payments scandal

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and his entire Cabinet resigned to take political responsibility for a scandal involving investigations into child welfare payments that wrongly labelled thousands of parents as fraudsters.
In a nationally televised speech, Mr Rutte said he had informed King Willem-Alexander of his decision and pledged that his government would continue work to compensate affected parents as quickly as possible and to battle the coronavirus.
“We are of one mind that if the whole system has failed, we all must take responsibility, and that has led to the conclusion that I have just offered the king, the resignation of the entire Cabinet,” Mr Rutte said.

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Labor calls for robo-debt accountability after mass resignation of Dutch government

Labor calls for robo-debt accountability after mass resignation of Dutch government
The Netherlands welfare scandal has seen cabinet and opposition members hand in their notice, treating the issue with the 'integrity' the ALP wants Scott Morrison to emulate.
January 18, 2021 -- 03:51 GMT (19:51 PST)
| Topic: Innovation
The federal opposition is calling on the Coalition to take a leaf out of the Dutch government's book and react with "integrity" over the way it handled robo-debt.
In the Netherlands, tax officials wrongly accused thousands people of fraud and ordered them to repay childcare benefits between 2013 and 2019. As a result, the Dutch government resigned.
The cabinet's resignation came after the publication of a parliamentary report last month, which concluded that "fundamental principles of the rule of law had been violated".

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Lilianne Ploumen succeeds Lodewijk Asscher as Labour party leader

Lilianne Ploumen succeeds Lodewijk Asscher as Labour party leader

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