MPs call on minister not to switch off emergency sirens in 2026

Parliament has called on caretaker justice minister Dilan Yesilgöz to reverse a decision to switch off the network of emergency sirens from 2026. Yesilgöz said the sirens, which are tested on the first Monday of every month, had been made redundant by online warnings such as the NL-Alert system. But a majority of MPs backed a motion by Joost Eerdmans, of the right-wing JA21 party, to keep the sirens switched on. Eerdmans accepted that the deadline in his motion of...