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Frans Timmermans, for a moment, seemed like the likely successor to outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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Will Frans Timmermans be the next Dutch PM on Wednesday?

Earlier this month, Amsterdam narrowly escaped catastrophic flooding.

Storm Ciarán dumped so much rain on the Dutch capital, which lies two metres below sea level, that people close to the city's main waterway saw water lapping against their souterrain windows. The NRC, one of the Netherland's newspapers of record, reported one resident joked...

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

Frans Timmermans, for a moment, seemed like the likely successor to outgoing Dutch PM Mark Rutte (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.

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