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Monday 23 November 2009
Over the next few years, road users will have to pay a charge for each kilometre they drive. The average charge for a car will rise from 3 euro cents per kilometre in 2012 to 6.7 cents in 2018.
A new international institute on counterterrorism will open in The Hague in the spring of 2010. One of the institute's main tasks will be to develop legal instruments that will make it easier to punish terrorists.
Foreign minister Maxime Verhagen has expressed satisfaction at the signing of the Lisbon Treaty by the Czech president Václav Klaus, shortly after a ruling by the Czech constitutional court in Prague.
The government has appointed the working groups that will be responsible for conducting broad-based reviews of 20 policy themes.
The crisis began on the financial markets but is now affecting the economy with a delay, the labour market and peoples finances.