The Netherlands: Hoekstra under fire as cracks grow in coalition over nitrogen policy

Foreign affairs minister Wopke Hoekstra is expected to come under fire from MPs on all sides over his recent remarks on the government’s plans to cut nitrogen emissions. Hoekstra drew a sharp rebuke from the prime minister, Mark Rutte, and his colleague responsible for nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal, for breaking ranks in an interview with the AD newspaper on Saturday. The Christian Democrat leader said the deadline of 2030 to achieve a 50% reduction in nitrogen compound emissions – primarily by cutting livestock farming – was ‘not sacred’ and he supported pushing it back to enable farmers to ‘earn a fair living’.

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