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Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, right, sits next to Health Minister Fleur Agema, center, and Climate and Green Growth Minister Sophie Hermans, left, as he listens to Dutch King Willem-Alexander outlining the new government's policy plans and budget for the coming year in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch government led by hard right asks for formal opt-out from EU migration rules

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE - Support beams stabilize an historic farm in Hunzinge, northern Netherlands, on Jan. 19, 2018. Extraction from one of the world's largest natural gas fields will end in October, the Dutch government announced Friday, June 23, 2023 turning off a lucrative tap that has also sparked unrest by causing a string of earthquakes. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch government to end gas extraction in northern province after 60 years and many damaging quakes

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

The Farmers Defense Force flag, right, and Dutch flags, fly in the wind on an intersection blocked by tractors in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. The Dutch government plans to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, May 2, 2023, when the European Union's executive arm gave the green light to farm buyout schemes worth nearly 1.5 billion euros ($1.65 billion). (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) **FILE**

Dutch plan to cut nitrogen emissions gets EU green light

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Upside-down Dutch flags fly in protest against the Dutch government's plans to drastically reduce emissions of nitrogen pollutants by the country's agricultural sector, next to a election billboard for the agrarian political BBB Party, BoerBurgerBeweging, or Farmer–Citizen Movement, in Ooststellingwerf, northern Netherlands, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Thousands of demonstrators are expected to join an anti-government protest by farmers' organizations in The Hague, Netherlands, Saturday, March 11, 2023. The protest comes days before Dutch provincial elections on March 15, in which a party representing farmers' interests is expected to perform well. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Farmers, environmental activists hold demos in The Hague

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

People sit at setup tables outside a pub in Soho, in London, on the day some of England's third coronavirus lockdown restrictions were eased by the British government, Monday, April 12, 2021. People across England flocked to shed shaggy locks and browse for clothes, books and other &quot;non-essential&quot; items as shops, gyms, hairdressers, restaurant patios and beer gardens reopened Monday after months of lockdown. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

The Latest: Governor bans vaccine passports for Montana

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A member of the medical staff prepares a syringe with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, FIle)

Dutch temporarily halt AstraZeneca shots for under-60s

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Fans may be allowed to attend 2021 Eurovision Song Contest

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FILE- In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, file photo, closed stores on Dam street and the Royal Palace on Dam Square, rear, are seen in Amsterdam. The Dutch government said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, that it wants to impose a curfew as part of beefed-up restrictions to rein in the spread of new more contagious variants of the coronavirus that already accounts for at least one in every 10 Dutch infections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch propose curfew to rein in virus; will ban more flights

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

The capital's popular Nine Streets shopping area is near-deserted during lockdown in Amsterdam, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. The Dutch government this week extended by three weeks the tough lockdown in force since mid-December amid fears that coronavirus infection rates are not declining quickly enough and fears about a new more transmissible variant of the virus. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch govt to beef up lockdown amid fears about new variants

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Dutch police use water cannon on anti-government protesters

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Staff members wait for the next in line at a COVID-19 testing facility of the Municipal Health Authority GGD, in Utrecht, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough lockdown Monday night in a speech to the nation ordering all non-essential shops and businesses such as hair salons, museums and theaters to close as coronavirus infection rates in the Netherlands rise sharply despite a two-month partial lockdown. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch government criticized for late start to vaccinations

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Police and ambulance personnel line up in front of the Royal Palace on Dam Square just before midnight in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. As the world says goodbye to 2020, a year ruined by the coronavirus, there will be countdowns and live performances, but no massed jubilant crowds in traditional gathering spots like the Champs Elysees in Paris and New York City's Times Square this New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch authorities to quickly begin vaccinating health staff

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People queue for a throat and nasal swab at a COVID-19 testing facility of the Municipal Health Authority GGD, in Utrecht, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough lockdown Monday night in a speech to the nation ordering all non-essential shops and businesses such as hair salons, museums and theaters to close as coronavirus infection rates in the Netherlands rise sharply despite a two-month partial lockdown. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch further tighten lockdown amid anger at open stores

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

A police officer is silhouetted as he passes a mural by artist Casper Cruse, showing a woman with a face mask holding a heart in the colors of the dutch flag in support for those suffering from the effects of the coronavirus, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

Advice to Dutch government: Vaccinate elderly and ill first

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Dutch govt bans New Year’s Eve fireworks to help hospitals

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FILE - In this Monday, March 23, 2020 file photo, a cyclist takes images of a barricaded backroad used by locals on the Netherlands border with Belgium between Chaam, southern Netherlands, and Meerle, Northern Belgium. European Union countries are set to adopt a common traffic light system to coordinate traveling across the 27-nation bloc, but a return to a full freedom of movement in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic remains far from reach. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch order bars, restaurants closed over pandemic fears

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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 file photo, Australian and Dutch investigators examine a piece of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. The Dutch government is taking to Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago, the foreign minister announced Friday July 10, 2020.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Dutch government to take Russia to European court over MH17

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dutch minister throws carrier KLM 3.4 billion euro lifeline

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Dutch government finance official quits over childcare fraud

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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 file photo, a protester holds a banner reading &quot;The Hague Billions, Groningen To Shreds&quot; as thousands of people take to the streets in Groningen, northern Netherlands, to protest against gas extraction and related earthquakes. The Dutch government says it expects to stop extracting gas from a vast underground field in the country’s north by mid-2022, ending decades of lucrative drilling. Economic Affairs and Climate Minister Eric Wiebes informed Dutch lawmakers of the likely end of drilling in the Groningen gas field in a letter to parliament Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

Dutch government aims to halt gas extraction by mid-2022

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press