The minority cabinet entered the tax plan debate without a majority, openly accepting split voting among D66, VVD and CDA to keep the proposal alive, a construction papers described as an open marriage and a political experiment.
Attention shifted in the morning to KLM, which announced the loss of 5,000 jobs in coming years and warned its continuity was not self-evident, prompting questions over mismanagement and delayed restructuring.
By afternoon the focus moved to aviation security, with nearly thirty bomb threats against European flights, diversions and an emergency landing in the Netherlands, including a KLM flight to Bucharest. NRC linked the pattern to state actors, while AD cited a report tying thawed freezers to Russian sabotage of everyday infrastructure, echoing the cooling hacks earlier in the week.
In the evening party leaders held one-on-one talks with the opposition, with outlets warning the minority cabinet was gambling its survival.