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If the Italians were to vote at this moment, the united opposition would receive the majority bonus, and the Meloni government would lose. However, that the new 42 percent rule automatically works to Meloni's advantage is not evident from the polls, says political scientist Giovanni Orsina from the Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, by phone: "If the Italians were to vote at this moment, the united opposition would receive the majority bonus, and the Meloni government would lose." #Meloni #Kieswet #Italië (translated)

Susanne wrote that she received similar responses almost daily and that her energy and motivation were decreasing. She described the cabinet as very harmful and characterized the D66 Prime Minister as incompetent and lacking leadership qualities. According to her, nothing was changing and the opposition offered her little support. She stated that parliamentary journalism continued to fall short: in her view, too much information about the cabinet was not shared with the public and many journalists lacked dossier knowledge or connection with right-wing voters to ask the right questions. Susanne wrote that she found national politics just as bad as many of her followers did, and she would prefer to stop. However, since many people relied on her tweets, she wanted to continue for now, but with less enthusiasm. #TweedeKamer #Politiek #Democratie #Oppositie (translated)

American President Donald Trump has started a 32-day campaign marathon to support Republican candidates in the run-up to the midterm elections, accusing the Democrats of destroying the country and expressing his concerns about possible impeachment if the opposition wins. #Trump #Midterms2026 #Republikeinen (translated)

Aruba has confirmed that the refusal of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado to land is 'certainly coordinated with the Netherlands', while the Dutch government has so far not commented on the situation. #MaríaCorinaMachado #Venezuela #KoninkrijkDerNederlanden (translated)

All debates are over. Thankfully. I was actually done with it. Both with the coalition and the opposition. I will do other things for the next three days, and on Monday, I will start again with renewed optimism. Thank you for following and see you again next week! #TweedeKamer #politiek #onderhandelingen #vacantie (translated)

To think about: In April 1946, Nazi leader Hermann Göring explained in his cell in Nuremberg exactly how political power really works. He said that ordinary people never demand war or crisis, but you can always get them on board. The recipe is simple: tell them they are in danger, and accuse the critics of endangering the community. That eighty-year-old formula is today the exact blueprint behind the permanent state of crisis in which we are kept. We see this in the conflict between Europe and Russia over Ukraine, where fear is used to push through billions in weapons without real democratic debate. But it doesn’t stop at geopolitics. We saw the same recipe with COVID-19, and now with climate change and the energy transition. It penetrates into our immediate living environment, such as the Environmental Vision Fryslân or the planned closures of the Wadden nature. While island residents are excluded, the elite discusses coercive 'system changes' at the Springtij Forum on Terschelling. The control over the narrative has now gone frighteningly far. Unheard Netherlands (ON!) is being ousted from the public broadcasting system, and through new legislation, there is an open search for ways to ban right-wing opposition parties. This is exactly where history painfully begins to rhyme with the 1930s, when critical media and parties were gradually silenced under the guise of 'public order' or 'safety'. The lines of this coordinated policy go directly to international networks and think tanks such as NATO, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the UN with their coercive SDGs. Through programs like the Young Global Leaders, politicians worldwide are being trained to roll out exactly the same crisis narratives in their own countries. Our local democracy seems to have become an execution office for a predetermined global agenda. The great eye-opener that Göring left us is that this mechanism works in every system. Once a population is made afraid enough of an invisible enemy (whether it is a virus, an aggressor, nitrogen, or CO₂), it willingly surrenders its freedom, its diverse media, and its common sense. Fear is the ultimate weapon to steer the masses. This pattern only stops when we cease to blindly follow that automatic pilot of fear. Will you let history repeat itself, or will you say no? #politiek #geschiedenis #angst (translated)

De Tweede Kamer steunt een nieuw luchtvaartbesluit dat voor het eerst in 18 jaar nieuwe regels vastlegt voor geluidshinder en het aantal vluchten, met een maximum van 478.000 jaarlijkse vliegbewegingen en 27.000 nachtvluchten, ondanks zorgen van oppositiepartijen en milieu-organisaties over de effectiviteit en juridische stabiliteit van het besluit. #Luchtvaartbesluit #Schiphol #Geluidshinder

In hun Kamerbrief stellen minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen (VVD) en diens staatssecretaris Eelco Eerenberg (D66) de oppositie voor het heffingsvrije inkomen in box 3 volgend jaar bijna te halveren van 60.098 naar 30.846 euro. #belastingvoordeel #vermogenswinstbelasting #Nederland

In hun Kamerbrief stellen minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen (VVD) en diens staatssecretaris Eelco Eerenberg (D66) de oppositie voor het heffingsvrije inkomen in box 3 volgend jaar bijna te halveren van 60.098 naar 30.846 euro. #belastingvoordeel #vermogenswinstbelasting #Nederland