Information dossier about the 2012 Elections
Elections for the House of Representatives are scheduled for 12 September 2012. Visit the webpage about the 2012 Elections.
Elections for the House of Representatives are scheduled for 12 September 2012. Visit the webpage about the 2012 Elections.
From Wednesday 29 August until Saturday 1 September 2012, the President of the House of Representatives, ms Gerdi Verbeet, will attend the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
On Sunday 1 July 2012, the President of the House of Representatives, ms Gerdi Verbeet, will attend the commemoration ceremony of the abolition of slavery in the former Dutch colonies.
On Saturday 30 June, The Netherlands will celebrate Veterans’day in The Hague. The President of the Dutch House of Representatives, ms Gerdi Verbeet, and members of the committee of Defence will be present.
On Wednesday 6 June, the President of the German Bundesrat, mr Horst Lorenz Seehofer, visited the Dutch States-General.
On Wednesday 6 June, the island councils of the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba (the BES-islands) visited the House of Representatives.
On Wednesday 23 May, the Committee for Immigration, Integration and Asylum met with the vice-premier and minister of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria, Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
On Wednesday 12 September 2012, general elections for the House of Representatives will be held.
After a long day of debating on the 2013 budget on Thursday April 26th 2012, the House of Representatives will be in recess from Friday April 27th until Monday May 14th 2012.
From Thursday 19 April until Sunday 22 April, the Contact Group United Kingdom of the Dutch House of Representatives paid a working visit to London.
The Committee of Parliamentary Inquiry into the Financial System presented its final report ‘Lost Credit II - Taking stock’ today. The Chair of the Committee, Jan de Wit, presented the final report to the President of the House of Representatives, Gerdi Verbeet.
On Thursday 22 March, members of the Committee of Finance and the Committee of European Affairs had a public meeting with a delegation from Greece under leadership of the Greek interior minister Tassos Giannitsis.
On Thursday 15 March, a delegation of the Deutsch-Niederländische Parlamentariergruppe from the German Bundestag visited the Dutch House of Representatives.
In 2012, The House of Representatives will conduct 3 parliamentary investigations. On Thursday 13 March, the House of Representatives agreed on 2 research proposals: “Effects and costs of Dutch climate and energy policy” and “Housing costs”.
On Thursday 8 March, the House of Representatives held a plenary session on the citizen’s initiative ‘Completed life’.