Ministry of General Affairs

This ministry contains 5 sections.

This is the Ministry of the Prime Minister, who is also the Minister of General Affairs. Its tasks are coordination of government policy and communications. The Ministry also issues information on matters concerning the Royal House.

The 1947 Constituent Instrument states that the Ministry is in charge of matters relating to general government policy in the Kingdom, where these are not expressly dealt with by other Ministries. The Ministry's duties as described amount to responsibility for co-ordinating overall government policy. 

News

Rutte responds to murder of Wiels

Prime minister Mark Rutte has expressed the government's condemnation of the murder of Helmin Wiels, the ...

06-05-2013

‘Thatcher was an icon’

‘Margaret Thatcher was one of the great political leaders of the late twentieth century. An icon. And a role ...

08-04-2013

EU summit agrees multiannual budget

Prime minister Mark Rutte is pleased with the outcome of the EU summit on the multiannual budget for ...

11-02-2013

Abdication and investiture in Amsterdam

The cabinet has decided that the abdication of the Queen will take place at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam on ...

29-01-2013

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Issues

Important issues of the ministry of General Affairs are:

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