Dick Schoof

Civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands 2024 to 2026

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Photo: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)

Oct 7
Netherlands to mandate hybrid heat pumps for boiler replacements from 2029
Housing Minister Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan announced that Dutch homeowners replacing heating boilers must install at least a hybrid heat pump starting in 2029.
Jun 13
Rutte tells COVID inquiry Netherlands 'crawled through the eye of the needle' as ICU beds nearly ran out in early 2020
Former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte told a parliamentary COVID inquiry that the country came close to running out of intensive care beds in the first weeks of the pandemic, as the cabinet 'crawled through the eye of the needle' thanks to German help and blunt internal debates.