THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (PNN) - June 1, 2024 - The Netherlands will tear up rules forcing homeowners to buy heat pumps as part of a war on net zero by Geert Wilders and the Dutch farmers’ Party.

Six months after his shock election victory, Wilders this week struck an agreement to usher in a Right-wing coalition government of four political Parties. “We are writing history,” he said as he announced the program for the new government.

The new coalition marks the first time that a political Party focusing on the interests of the agricultural sector has got into power in the Netherlands. Earlier this year, mass farmers' protests swept Europe.

The coalition pact includes pledges to reverse green policies introduced under the previous government to hit EU climate targets, including compulsory buyouts of polluting famrs. It also plans to end subsidies for electric cars in 2025 and rejects an EU demand that the Dutch reduce livestock numbers to cut pollution.