The new Dutch coalition will not liberalise policies around abortion, embryo research and euthanasia. However, members of parliament are free to support initiatives from the opposition. That means that the coalition as such does not speak out for the protection of unborn life.
Evert van Vlastuin, CNE.news
Job Title: Chief editor CNE.news
Evert van Vlastuin (1972) has been working as a journalist since the early 90s. He has interviewed several Nobel Peace Prize winners as former South African president F. W. de Klerk and two from Northern Ireland, John Hume and David Trimble. From 2001, he worked as a foreign news reporter for the Dutch daily *Reformatorisch Dagblad* (RD.nl). Since 2021, he has worked as managing editor for the start-up CNE.news. Respond to Evert by [e-mail](info@cne.news).