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The main measures in the coalition accord
Economy and taxes
- Aid budget to be cut from 0.8% of GDP to 0.7%
- Energy bill surcharge to pay for subsidies for wind and solar power projects
- Corporate clustering to be encouraged such as the Greenport Venlo and Maintenance Valley projects
- Public private partnerships to be encouraged for infrastructure
- Childcare and healthcare subsidies to be cut
Immigration and asylum:
- Immigrants to pay for their own integration courses
- Ban on the burqa and other face-covering garments
- Headscarf ban for police and justice ministry officials
- Integration tests to be made more difficult
- List of dangerous countries for automatic refugee status to be scrapped
Work and social security
- Benefit cuts for people whose clothing or behaviour stops them finding a job
- Minimum wage and basic welfare benefits to be reduced
- Pension age to rise from 65 to 66 by 2020
- No change to unemployment benefit
- No change to redundancy laws
Law and order
- 2,500 new police officers to be appointed
- 500 new animal police officers
- Minimum sentences for serious crimes
- Tougher sentences for attacking emergency service workers
- Stop and search policy to be extended
Defence and foreign policy
- Further investment in ties with Israel
- Nato missions to be paid for from aid budget
- €1bn to be cut from European Union bill
- Second test JSF fighter jet will be bought
Other measures
- Parents to me made (financially) responsible for making sure their children speak Dutch properly
- €500m for new roads
- Spending on arts and culture to be cut
- €1bn more for spending on the elderly
- Prostitution age to be raised to 21
- Spending on public broadcasting to be cut by €200m - one tv channel may go
- Cannabis cafes will become members-only clubs with a pass system
- No change to Sunday trading laws - currently 12 a year
- The smoking ban in cafes and bars smaller than 70m2 will be lifted
- Speed limit on some motorways increased to 130 kph.
- Student grants to be reduced from four to three years
- Applications to build new nuclear power stations to be welcomed
Government
- Savings on civil service to generate savings of €6.6bn a year
- The new cabinet will have 12 full and eight junior ministers, split between the CDA and VVD
- Economic affairs and agriculture combined into a single ministry
- The number of MPs and senators will be reduced to 100 and 50 respectively
- Local government layers will be reduced