Talk:Fourth Balkenende cabinet

Untitled
I've made some adjustments regarding the English translation of ministries and foreign titles of some state secretaries. jgwestrik

Template
Hi! I made this template which I want to put on all the ministers & staatssecretarissen when they are officially appointed thursday. C mon 12:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

License of image with Beatrix
Under what license is the image with the queen released? (Balkenende II image) It would make a good image to place on In the news once the cabinet is appointed. JACO PLANE  • 2007-02-18 13:20


 * I'm guessing you can use it under fair use, copyright is likely owned by the authors (which are newsagencies etc.) C mon 14:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

The big day!
Today is the day of installation, this will involve minor re-writes on almost every article on Dutch politics. Would any one mind if I start with re-writing before the official installation (15h00)? So when these articles get to the in the news section, they are all prepared? C mon 09:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Semi protection
Can someone please remind me how we get an Admin in here to semi-protect this article. It seems to be a vandal target. MojoTas 01:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Error
There appears to be an error in the last line of the first paragraph in the Formation section. It lists the Party for the Animals as one of the winners of the elections. Yet according to the page on the Dutch general election, 2006 they are tied for last place. How can a party be one of the winners if it is in last place? It would probably be more appropriate to list the Labour Party (PvdA) instead. ClixTrek 05:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * This is a characteristic of how the Dutch talk about election results. A party is deemed an election "winner" if it gains more seats than it held in the prior parliament, and a "loser" if it wins fewer seats than in the prior election. Therefore both CDA and PvdA were modest "losers" in the 2006 election as they both dropped a few seats, and PvdD was a winner by virtue of gaining their first-ever seats. This affects cabinet formations as well: traditionally coalitions almost always include at least one party which "won" the election. This time, ChistenUnie fills that role. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.146.104.123 (talk) 06:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC).


 * I think it's better to clarify that those parties "gained seats" as opposed to "win", which is obviously ambiguous (as the above incident shows), so I've gone ahead and done that. Doesn't really take away from the substance of the article.  Kelvinc 10:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Strange Law
There's a strange law mentioned here, the one that says that noone may earn more than the prime minister. Is this really correct? I've searched the government's homepage and couldn't find anything that would suggest this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.232.68.90 (talk) 10:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that is correct. We call it the "Balkende norm" The rule is that nobody in a (semi)public office may earn more then the minister president. This also incl. schools, public TV, housingcoorperations etc etc. Every institute that receives money from the public.

the Balkenende norm = 181.000 euro

--Rogierbosch (talk) 06:23, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It is not a law; it is an internal regulation for government and government dependent bodies. It was initiated after it turned out that e.g. some school directors (of state subisidised schools; which all schools are in the Netherlands) and other state paid/subsidised postions were earning much more than the prime minister. This created some unrest in society as it was argued that the person with the largest public responsibility (the prime minister) should be rewarded higher compared to other governmental staff.... This rule thus only applies to government positions. Arnoutf (talk) 09:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Error in the list
Jack de Vries is staatsecretaris from Defence. --Rogierbosch (talk) 06:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Naming of Dutch cabinets
I've started a discussion on Talk:List of cabinets of the Netherlands to try and change the naming of all Dutch cabinets. Please discuss there. Mtcv (talk) 13:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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