RIVM has been warning for months about the publication of the nitrogen map: ‘Communicatively very clumsy’

Perhaps it’s the biggest government blunder of this year: the ‘nitrogen ticket’ that angered farmers so much. Nitrogen experts from RIVM warned months before the map was published that this would be ‘very inconvenient in terms of communication’. Nevertheless, Minister Christianne van der Wal (Nature and Nitrogen) persevered, resulting in fierce farmers’ protests.

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