Right wingers going to right wing...

One of the flattest and lowest countries in the world voting to help rising sea levels among other things because right-wing populists cried "blame the evil foreigners" as usual.

If humanity should die out, we at least know it was justified...

Not surprising given the parties in the coalition. Hopefully it doesn't last long...

It would scrap the final two rounds—together worth €6.8 billion—of the National Growth Fund, a 5-year scheme launched in 2021 to boost innovation and economic growth by disbursing a total of €20 billion to consortia of research organizations and companies. The fund’s first three rounds supported dozens of projects, for example to boost the biotech sector, innovate in education, make the steel industry greener, and create a Centre for Animal-Free Biomedical Translation.

The cut is “shocking, because it will hurt the country’s potential for innovation,” says chemist and 2016 Nobel Prize winner Ben Feringa of the University of Groningen, who sits on the fund’s advisory council. “It’s not a very smart strategy if you think about the problems we have to solve as a society.”

The agreement also puts an end to the so-called Sector Plans, a scheme launched in 2023 that spends €200 million annually to reduce academic workloads, provide jobs at universities and academic medical centers, and structure the division of labor between institutes. And the parties agreed to cut €150 million annually from a $500 million fund to advance basic research.

I couldn't have said it better than Mr. Feringa.