Cabinet Actions
- Revoked a planned ban on mink farming initiated by the previous cabinet
- Approved an expansion of the European Union.
- Support for the United States in its plan to invade Iraq.
- Cuts to a subsidised jobs scheme of Ad Melkert, the Melkertbanen.
- Removed price controls on some popular medical interventions (knee and hip operations, cataract operations), so that painful waiting lists begun to disappear
- Reorganisation of defence (and budget cuts?) involving 4800 job losses
- Reduction of spending on public transport of 39 million euros in 2003 (originally to be 60 million)
- Cuts to the budgets of most government departments, but with increased spending on health and some other areas.
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