Netherlands cabinet Biesheuvel-1
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The first Biesheuvel cabinet (6 July 1971 - 9 August 1972) was a Dutch
Netherlands
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 cabinet with ministers from ARP
Anti Revolutionary Party
The Anti Revolutionary Party was a Dutch Protestant Christian democratic political party. The ARP is one of the predecessors of the Christian Democratic Appeal. After 1917 the party never received more than twenty percent of the vote.-History before 1879:The anti-revolutionary parliamentary caucus...

, CHU
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 (both Protestant), Roman Catholic KVP
Catholic People's Party
The Catholic People's Party was a Catholic Christian democratic Dutch political party. During its entire existence, the party was in government. The party is one of the precursors of the Christian Democratic Appeal.- 1945-1965 :The KVP was founded on 22 December, 1945...

, the conservative-liberal VVD and moderate socialist DS'70, which had just split off from PvdA.

Problems of the cabinet were the release of war criminals (three of Breda) and the increasing inflation, combined with a stagnating economy (stagflation
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). The decision to cut government expenses was not supported by DS'70, so the cabinet lost its majority in the parliament, resulting in Biesheuvel II.

Minister Stuyt, the first minister for environmental
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 affairs, issued an urgency-note concerning the environment. In 1972, the first report from the Club of Rome
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 was published, which showed that the environment is in a bad state worldwide and that resources will eventually run out.

The cabinet recognised the GDR and voted to allow China
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 into the United Nations
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.

Source

  • http://www.parlement.com/9291000/modulesf/g0cd3xw1
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