In 2014 , The Hague held a Group of Seven special meeting after the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukraine with 193 Dutch nationals aboard . During the municipal elections of 2014 , the VVD finished third behind local parties and the CDA ; at the European Parliament election the same year , it finished fourth . At the 2015 Dutch provincial elections , however , the VVD remained the largest party in the province 's legislatures with about 15 % of the vote , but lost 23 seats in the States-Provincial . In April 2016 , Rutte was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim to the High-Level Panel on Water . Co-chaired by Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto , the joint United Nations-World Bank Group panel was set up to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 ( SDG 6 ) . That month also saw the 2016 Dutch Ukraine – European Union Association Agreement referendum . In November 2016 the House of Representatives approved by 132 votes against 18 a ban on the Islamic burqa in some public spaces including schools and hospitals , a bill supported by the VVD
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Mark Rutte