Ex-Dutch PM Mark Rutte Tells Parliamentary Covid-19 Inquiry 2021 Curfew Was Invitable

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Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD) is "quite a bit irritated" that the inquiry commission into coronavirus policy revealed text messages from the coronavirus period last week, in which…

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THE HAGUE (ANP) - The insulting messages that former Minister of Justice Ferd Grapperhaus sent about fellow administrators were "not pretty," according to Mark Rutte. But as far as the former prime minister is concerned, it means nothing that he sent these messages during the coronavirus pandemic. "I think that in such a...

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The curfew imposed in early 2021 to further slow the spread of the coronavirus was inevitable, according to then-Prime Minister Mark Rutte. "There was no alternative," the former prime minister said during a hearing by the parliamentary committee on coronavirus inquiry.

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Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte had to account for his cabinet's handling of the coronavirus on Monday morning. It was Rutte's second and final hearing before the parliamentary inquiry committee. Read our reporter Niels Klaassen's analysis here.

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Mark Rutte makes concessions on punctuation. But to this day, the former prime minister defends the major coronavirus decisions with verve. "Then school closures and a curfew are inevitable," said Rutte in this final week of the public hearings of the parliamentary inquiry into coronavirus policy.