Secret cabinet minutes: Diplomatic riot over turtles and fear of plane crash due to millennium bug

Wim Kok’s second cabinet appears to have incurred the wrath of Madagascar in 1999 because of 33 turtles. It is one of the facts that can be read in minutes of the cabinet council from that time, which became public on Thursday. It also appears that the cabinet was toying with the idea of ​​canceling the European Football Championship and that the cabinet wanted to close hospitals because of the millennium bug. Three striking things from the documents.

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