The Netherlands faces major choices, as clearly reflected in the agreement by D66, VVD, and CDA. It is important to accelerate now and advance major societal themes such as energy, economy, accessibility, and housing. The Province of Flevoland therefore sees the new coalition agreement as an invitation to collaborate with the new cabinet to build practical solutions together.
“Flevoland is not a region that waits for policy but a region that shows how policy works. Here, national ambitions are translated into concrete solutions every day” - Arjen Gerritsen, Kings Commissioner.
On Friday, March 20, the province is organizing a working visit for members of the House of Representatives. During this visit, we will demonstrate that Flevoland is ready. We want and can assist the national government in realizing ambitious plans. In the coming period, we will gladly show how national choices grow into concrete solutions with impact.
Energy
The coalition agreement strongly focuses on supply security and accelerating energy infrastructure. This aligns well with the urgent situation in our region. Energy is a crucial key for the various challenges we are working on, from housing construction (with 100,000 homes) to further sustainability of initiatives that are not feasible due to grid congestion.
In Flevoland, we are already actively working on solutions for grid congestion, energy generation, and smart capacity distribution. We especially see opportunities in the grid congestion crisis law if regional execution power is genuinely given room to achieve faster results. Especially now that the House of Representatives explicitly indicated on December 18, 2025, via the De Groot motion that the FGU region (Flevoland, Gelderland, Utrecht) is the most urgent congestion area and therefore deserves experimental space and acceleration.
Hightech & Economy
The cabinets economic course fits Flevolands focus on innovation, ecosystems, and productivity growth. Flevoland is developing new innovation clusters, such as the high-tech campus Almere with the Institute for Advanced Materials & Metrology (IAMM), the Mobility & Infrastructure Test Center (MITC) in Marknesse, and the AgriTech cluster in Dronten. These are concrete places where national policy is already taking shape in regional practice.
Housing & Accessibility
In Flevoland, we combine scale with quality: future-proof and grid-conscious building, so that housing development goes hand in hand with livability and economic development. This aligns with the coalition agreement emphasizing cooperation, broad prosperity, and building vital communities.
It is positive that the cabinet wants to allocate more funds for accessibility and evaluates projects based on their contribution to housing and the economy. We are pleased that the cabinet wants to allow civil aviation at Lelystad Airport. This ends about ten years of uncertainty and ambiguity about the airports future. At the same time, the further development of our region also requires good agreements on necessary connections for us. These include the IJmeer connection, the Lelylijn, widening of the A6, A27, and N50, and the implementation of the High-Frequency Rail Program (PHS) SAAL. These projects are crucial not only for Flevoland but for the growth and accessibility of the Netherlands as a whole.
As a key region, we show how spatial ambitions, economic development, and infrastructure can be realized together here.