The Power of Coherence
On how fragmentation works as a governance strategy, and why populists always win from it 1. A pizza nobody could eat On Budget Day 2026, the Dutch minority government led by Prime Minister Rob Jetten presented its first full budget. ABN AMRO, the country’s largest bank, described the result aptly: a pizza of which each coalition party received a number of slices. D66 had its slices, the VVD its slices, the CDA its slices. Together, those three parties hold 66 seats in the lower house of parliament. A majority requires 76. ...