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The number of civil servants at the national government has increased in recent years to 161,000 full-time positions, despite repeated promises from governments to cut costs, and this is due to the policy from The Hague that requires new rules and structures, which calls for a necessary cultural change. #Ambtenaren #Rijksoverheid #Politiek (translated)

The cabinet has announced that the Tax Authority must cut an additional 162 million euros, on top of previous savings, while the service is already facing staff shortages that prevent billions in tax revenues from being collected. #Bezuinigingen #Belastingdienst #KunstmatigeIntelligentie (translated)

Fleur Agema wrote that the budget debate of Health, Welfare, and Sport (VWS) in the House of Representatives was, in her view, terrible. She named the low point as Lisa Westerveld having taken the measure of Vicky Maeijer. Agema stated that the Schoof cabinet had invested a net of 3 billion euros in healthcare, while the Jetten cabinet wanted to cut 8 billion euros from the most vulnerable, according to her. She criticized PRO because the party would keep the option open to vote in favor of the VWS budget for 2027. According to Agema, that budget would, among other things, scrap the AZWA and HLO agreements and raise the deductible to 400 euros per year. She added that PRO expected most healthcare cuts from 2028 onwards, but that this also applied to social security, in her opinion. Agema called the contributions from factions supporting the cuts out of touch with reality. She wrote that the VVD requested attention for the staff shortage, while scrapping the AZWA and HLO agreements, according to her, would remove an agreed measure that would reduce the shortage by 100,000 in 2028. D66, in her view, wanted to reimburse slimming medication but would simultaneously scrap the AZWA agreement that included 20 million euros for that purpose. Agema also pointed out that 50PLUS wanted reimbursement for the shingles vaccine but might vote in favor of a budget that would scrap that agreement. PRO member of parliament Julian Bushoff, according to her, advocated for stronger fraud prevention, while PRO considered cuts that would remove 50 million euros for that approach. Agema thought that industry organizations were too quiet and wrote that the media approved of the situation. She expected that the ministers would present deteriorations as improvements and suggested that they would get away with it. #zorgbezuinigingen #TweedeKamer #VWS (translated)

Syp Wynia wrote that the government could easily cut costs by starting with what he considers the very expensive top civil servants of the General Administrative Service. He referred to a contribution by Harald Hameleers in Wynia's Week. https://t.co/m7fyCeS1uV #overheid #besparen #topambtenaren (translated)

Jolande wrote that coalition parties, according to her, wanted elderly people who needed domestic help to live independently at home to pay for that help themselves. Single AOW recipients with a small pension could thus be paying up to 184 euros extra per month. She argued that cuts in elderly care kept people at home and that they now also had to pay for domestic help themselves. She sharply criticized Jetten, Bontenbal, and the VVD. https://t.co/mN9Fl6gj5W #Ouderenzorg #HuishoudelijkeHulp #AOW (translated)

Fleur Agema wrote that the VVD was putting pressure on the budget to make cuts, not because of a deficit above 3 percent: this would amount to 2.3 percent in 2026. According to Agema, the reason was that the party wanted to spend an additional 19.5 billion euros structurally on defense, after Schoof had promised that to Trump at the NATO summit. Agema stated that there were other costly expenditures besides defense and that the national debt was low, but that the VVD did not want to increase it. She called that a missed opportunity. Although borrowing would lead to higher interest burdens, it could finance necessary incidental expenses. Domestic investments, unlike expenditures on foreign arms industry, would stimulate economic growth, according to her. #VVD #begroting #defensie (translated)

Tot slot, onderstaande moties om niet te bezuinigen op de zorg en de sociale zekerheid, het eigen risico niet te verhogen en de dubbele belasting op campers terug te draaien hebben het niet gehaald omdat, naast de coalitiepartijen ook Volt en JA21 hiertegen hebben gestemd.👇 https://t.co/BrhMidLKk2 #Zorg #SocialeZekerheid #Bezuinigingen

De Franse regering heeft aangekondigd volgend jaar 54 miljard euro te willen bezuinigen om het begrotingstekort van 5,5 procent van het bbp terug te dringen naar 5 procent, ondanks druk om meer uit te geven voor compensatie van stijgende energiekosten. #FranseRegering #Bezuinigingen #Begrotingstekort

Check dit: @jimmydijk diende een motie in 'Niet bezuinigen op de sociale zekerheid' Voor: PRO, SP, 50PLUS, PvdD , Denk, BBB, PVV en FVD Tegen: VVD, D66, CDA, JA21, ChristenUnie, SGP, Volt, Groep M en Keijzer. Dat belooft niet veel goeds. #Apb #TweedeKamer #SocialeZekerheid #Politiek #TweedeKamer

Alice Weidel, de leider van de Duitse AfD, heeft een belangrijke aankondiging gedaan waarin de plannen van de partij worden uiteengezet. De AfD wil: - De belastingen met maximaal 75% verlagen - Bezuinigen op ontwikkelingshulp - 30.000 ambtenaren die uit belastinggeld worden betaald, ontslaan - Medewerkers van de binnenlandse inlichtingendienst ontslaan die ervan worden beschuldigd patriotten te bespioneren - Een einde maken aan de 'groene' agenda Mensen moeten meer geld in hun zak overhouden, aldus Weidel. #AfD #Duitsland #Politiek