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Youth parties CDA, D66, and VVD criticize the peace movement Stop the War Fever for spreading fear about the reintroduction of conscription, emphasizing that the voluntary choice for young people remains guaranteed unless there is an acute threat. #Vrede #Dienstplicht #Jongeren (translated)

Regina Laska wrote that CDA chairman Dennis Radtke (CDU) referred to Gerhard Schröder's recent appearance in Moscow in the Tagesspiegel as a "case of moral bankruptcy" and called on the SPD to expel the former chancellor from the party. Laska agreed with him. Schröder was too ill to testify before a parliamentary inquiry but fit enough to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday in Moscow and accept a new supervisory board position in Russia. According to Laska, the SPD state chairpersons in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are now also demanding a new expulsion procedure. The SPD district of Upper Palatinate voted unanimously in favor of it on Saturday. Schleswig-Holstein's SPD leader Ulf Kämpfer stated that the paths of the party and Schröder had parted ways many years ago. Laska asked why Schröder was still a member of the SPD. Previous expulsion procedures had failed in 2022 and 2023. It is not only about Schröder's differing stance on Russia policy, Laska wrote, but also about his demonstrative loyalty to Putin, who has been waging a war of annihilation against Ukraine for more than four and a half years. She also pointed out that SPD foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner had praised Schröder's visit to Putin. Pierre Orthen, chairman of the SPD local club in Baden-Württemberg's Leutenbach, publicly questioned whether this was in line with the responsibilities of a member of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee. Laska wrote that Stegner had held talks with Kremlin-affiliated representatives in Baku in April 2025. It apparently concerned the future of the Petersburg Dialogue, which Schröder co-founded with Putin in 2001. In June 2026, Stegner was said to have praised Schröder's connection to Putin; now he had attended Putin's birthday party. Laska asked what these contacts had achieved for peace in Ukraine and wrote that anyone justifying such talks as efforts for peace must also be able to explain what they had accomplished. #Schröder #Ukraine #SPD (translated)

Bas Paternotte questioned the direction of the CDA under Henri Bontenbal. He stated that the party preferred to collaborate with Extinction Rebellion rather than shift to the right, and described the organization as extreme left and antisemitic. He also used the hashtag #Fatsoen. #Fatsoen https://t.co/eqC9UD7AUQ #CDA #Extreemlinks #Politiek (translated)

Flick criticized VVD members who raised alarms about the state of the party. He accused them of allowing the country to be led by the CDA and D66 for decades and only complaining afterward. He also said they should continue to associate with their leftist allies and predicted that the VVD was heading towards zero seats. https://t.co/wQnWLnRsRw #VVD #Politiek #Nederland (translated)

Ir. Wouter de Heij wrote that he had a busy week behind him, with good mornings, bad afternoons, and missed phone calls that he wanted to return later. He expressed annoyance at what he saw as the compliant attitude of LTO Nederland. According to De Heij, the civil service leadership abandoned dairy farmers, and the standard of 0.164 and other requirements remained intact. He also criticized VVD and CDA, as they, in his opinion, were either not paying attention or were willfully neglecting their responsibilities. Regarding area processes, he wrote that the civil service leadership had no interest in them. De Heij stated that the standard of 0.164 amounted to a reduction of about 30 to 40 percent of all dairy cattle in the Netherlands by 2035, possibly more. According to him, De Groot got his way, and the centrist parties allowed it to happen. He said he did not think this helped nature and urged readers to save his message. #melkveehouderij #politiek #natuur (translated)

The author wrote that according to her, in addition to 33,000 homeless people, twenty asylum seekers had also slept outside, in the grass near Ter Apel. She referred to Minister Bart van den Brink (CDA), who had called the situation "undignified for the Netherlands," and stated that he was not referring to the homeless. She used a derogatory term for the asylum seekers. https://t.co/m0QFdIOeJk #Daklozen #Asielzoekers #Nederland (translated)

At the extraordinary board meeting on October 4th, the main reserves would have been presented by President Francesco Milleri and Counselor Mario Notari, who are instead inclined to confirm support for Lovaglio, following what had already happened in April, when a very tense assembly had renewed the leadership of Monte. #IntesaSanpaolo #Delfin #Mps (translated)

Marcel Crok suspected that Tijs was referring to him with the term 'climate deniers' because he claimed to be about the only dissenting voice during an external expert day in March 2025. He called the term derogatory and pointed out that CDA leader Henri Bontenbal had also used it regularly, according to him. Crok invited Tijs to a lecture by Clintel given by Roger Pielke Jr. the following Sunday in Driebergen. He referred to an article by Pielke about a campaign against climate scientists with dissenting views. According to Crok, Australian activists, including a cartoonist, with the support of influential American climate scientists, created blacklists. Among those listed were Pielke, his father, and Judith Curry, according to him. Crok wrote that their academic careers were thereby hindered and called the issue concerning for Members of Parliament. Regarding his own participation in the Citizen's Assembly, Crok stated that the selection of citizens went well and that his discussions with KNMI director Maarten van Aalst were respectful. However, in hindsight, he claimed that the organization published an incorrect fact-check. He said he should have filed a forty-page complaint before he received any response. Crok argued that the debate about climate, just like the debate about corona which Tijs had previously struggled with as a journalist, was, in his view, being stifled. He spoke of a suffocating atmosphere in the academic world and wrote that no journalist had signed up to attend Pielke's lecture. #klimaat #wetenschap #discussie (translated)

Bas Paternotte wrote that a student from Gaza who expressed sympathy for Hamas was allowed to stay in the Netherlands. He called the asylum policy the most insane ever and wrote that it was led by CDA member Bart van den Brink, who according to him imposed the Compulsion Act on the Dutch. Paternotte stated that the cabinet was not seeking support, but sowing polarization. #asielbeleid #polarisatie #Hamas (translated)

Bas Paternotte wrote that Bart van den Brink (CDA) had told Marina Vondeling (PVV) that the student from Gaza, whom Paternotte described as a Hamas student at Maastricht University, was allowed to stay in the Netherlands and retained his residence permit. https://t.co/7Gs4j9V1UK #Nederland #Hamas #Verblijfsvergunning (translated)

If it turns out that CDU representatives have elected the AfD candidate as the President of the State Parliament, I expect the party to initiate an expulsion procedure against them. The head of the CDU's employee wing (CDA), Dennis Radtke, has now called for consequences if this is the case. #CDU #AfD #Landtagspräsident (translated)

Bas Paternotte wrote that Simon Ceulemans (JA21) said that Maastricht University had an employee who advised students on applying for asylum. Bart van den Brink (CDA) had reportedly called this undesirable and promised to inquire about it with his colleague Rianne Letschert (D66). https://t.co/kZMN3gUNxp #onderwijs #asiel #UniversiteitMaastricht (translated)

Susanne wrote that she had to laugh at a budget debate in which Tijs van den Brink (CDA) unintentionally embarrassed Heera Dijk (D66) according to her. Dijk had said she was happy that financial coverage had been found, but according to Susanne, she could not explain what that coverage consisted of. She wrote that Ingrid Michon, whom she referred to as VVD president, came to Dijk's aid and that VVD minister Van der Burg laughed off the discomfort. Susanne called that partisan and compared the performance of D66 and the VVD in a mocking manner. #BegrotingKoninkrijksrelaties #TweedeKamer #TweedeKamer #Politiek #Humor (translated)

Jacques Monasch wrote to Henri Bontenbal that he believed he had said nothing about the disarmament of Hamas or the ongoing attacks by Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Monasch also accused him of not only reflecting on the events of that day on October 7 and used a derogatory religious term for the CDA. #CDA #Farizeeërs #Hamas #Iran #Oorlog (translated)