In isolation it's good, but they're worried it's caused by inflation reducing demand, not greener policies. People can't afford oil so demand drops.

People being unable to afford stuff is generally a bad thing.

Parliament controls their funding, they're not directly controlled but when the government controls the purse you're never truly independent.

Actually the Netherlands is massively in favor of building more houses, but our industry (notably agriculture) is emitting too much ammonia which is damaging the Natura2000 areas too much. So in many places we legally cannot build anything as it would raise the already too high ammonia levels even higher.

This lockup has caused investors to buy tons of properties because they know demand will rise without supply increasing with it.

You don't want to start accession talks once Russia is ready to invade, you want to do so now.