Overnight attention stayed on security, with NOS framing Russian drone incursions as a test of Article 5 and De Telegraaf reporting police in Ter Apel could no longer contain violence and theft around the registration centre.
By midday The Hague took over: Pro, ChristenUnie and Volt reported movement in budget talks with the Jetten minority cabinet, and De Telegraaf published a leaked offer scrapping cuts to benefits in exchange for accelerated box 3 reform, a concession AD and de Volkskrant said was aimed at the left while right-wing support was sought elsewhere.
The NDSM terrace killing from the previous day developed with new footage, a ferry skipper's eyewitness account, and identification of the shooter as 37-year-old Amin D. and the victim as 61-year-old prison officer Marcel Blijd.
In the evening NOS and others reported Demi Vollering's first road world title in Montreal.