Spring spending plans: financial backing still unclear - DutchNews.nl

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Minister of Finance Heinen (VVD) admits that the consequences for households of the spring memorandum presented today have not yet been mapped out. "I will have it all calculated by the CPB (Central Planning Bureau, ed.), we will have to wait two weeks for that." The measures from the spring memorandum can have different consequences for different households: 'pluses' are also 'minuses'. Heinen: "We have not had a discussion about purchasing pow…

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Postponement of the almost free childcare, a reduction of the child-related budget and an intervention in the income tax and tax reductions: it is now clear where the pain in the spring memorandum will lie. Read more on Telegraaf.nl

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Prime Minister Dick Schoof denied during his weekly press conference on Thursday that the coalition outside the cabinet had made agreements on the Spring Memorandum.

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Prime Minister Dick Schoof feared several times during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, during the negotiations on the spring memorandum, that the coalition would not reach an agreement now. "I have thought now and then, during the night and in the morning: this is going to be very complicated."

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According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Eddy van Hijum (NSC), there are still major challenges that have not been agreed on in the spring memorandum. Nevertheless, he is glad that the coalition parties PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB reached an agreement on Wednesday morning.