According to this story from the Smart Marriages listserv, the Dutch parliament either changed the law, or defeated a proposed change, or both, but in any case, it was a victory for slightly stricter divorce laws. However, the goalposts were already at a far more permissive point than in most other European countries, or even than in the U.S., because the issue was apparently having divorce through an administrative process rather than a court, and letting people convert marriages to registered partnerships.
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