DutchNews Podcast
1) The We've Had Enough Political Car Crashes For One Year Edition - Week 50 - 2025
Sybrand Buma bows out as coalition negotiator, leaving behind an iconic photograph and a Herculean task to form a new government. His successor, Maastricht university professor Rianne Letschert, pays ...Show More
2) The Schrödinger's Problem Wolf Edition - Week 49 - 2025
The coalition talks hit an impasse as D66 and CDA's hopes of forming a government go up in smoke faster than an Ajax home match. Financial investigators uncover more evidence of Russian influence at t...Show More
3) The Most Good People Don't Chuck Bukowski Edition - Week 48 - 2025
Like exhausted generals at the Somme, the VVD gear up for one last push to get their asylum bill through parliament before the new cabinet takes office. Drones from Russia - or possibly MediaMarkt - c...Show More
4) The Advocaat's Curaçao Cocktail Party Edition - Week 47 - 2025
Dick Advocaat sparks scenes of jubilation on Curaçao and the world's shortest open top bus tour after the Caribbean nation reaches the World Cup for the first time. Back in The Hague, Rob Jetten and ...Show More
5) The Delayed Dick Gratification Edition - Week 46 - 2025
Rob Jetten and Henri Bontenbal give Dilan Yesilgöz a taste of her own medicine by shutting the VVD out of the first round of coalition talks. Employers are struggling to entice workers to go back to t...Show More
6) The Can The Coalition Talks Stay on the Rails Edition - Week 45 - 2025
National train chief Wouter Koolmees defies expectations by getting the first stage of coalition talks under way with only a slight delay. But will Dilan Yesilgöz' pledge to deplatform GL-PvdA shunt t...Show More
7) The Strawberry Short Cake Edition - Week 44 - 2025
We pick over the bones of the election that had just about everything … apart from a result. Jetten just about edges out Wilders, Yesilgöz snatches defeat from the jaws of catastrophe, Bontenbal and E...Show More
8) Election Night Special - Week 44 - 2025
D66 look set to become the largest party in the new Dutch parliament in a shock result that sees Geert Wilders' far-right PVV lose a dozen seats. The VVD do better than expected and finish ahead of Gr...Show More
9) "I think this is the time to make ridiculous predictions …”
Clip from October 10 Dutch News podcast on the rise of D66 in the election campaign
10) The Poorly Polling Palingpopulist Edition - Week 43 - 2025
A low-key election campaign staggers into its final days with a flurry of minor squabbles about refugee centres, religious schools and whether the animal rights party is too pro-human. House prices co...Show More