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Now that Trump and Putin are pushing for a quick end to the conflict in Ukraine, people are looking at Europe: what can countries contribute to safeguarding peace? The government says it is ‘positively’ looking at a military deployment, but the largest coalition party PVV is against it. The House is debating it with Dick Schoof. This live blog is closed. You can read everything that happened in the debate here.

Prime Minister Schoof was still clear on Saturday: the Netherlands will look favorably at participating in a military force to protect Ukraine from Russia after an agreement. But two days later, the chance that Dutch soldiers will actually go there is a lot smaller. Reason: Wilders' PVV threatens to block it. With a message on X, Wilders created a new potential conflict in the coalition today. "The Netherlands is already involved in many mission…

Now that the American government is pushing for a peace treaty in which Europe must provide a peacekeeping force, a discussion has broken out about whether the Netherlands should also provide soldiers for this.

PVV leader Geert Wilders has spoken out against sending Dutch soldiers to Ukraine. He stated via X that the Netherlands is already involved in too many missions and that the focus should be on protecting its own territory. This position puts him on a collision course with the cabinet, which is actually positive about participation in a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

The PVV is against sending Dutch soldiers to Ukraine. Geert Wilders made this known on X. According to him, the Netherlands is already participating in "many missions" and the Dutch territory should also...