PM calls for intellectual debate

There is an ‘almost worrying silence’ from intellectuals, artists and writers when it comes to debating the problems in Dutch society, writes prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Balkenende makes the comment in a letter to writer Harry Mulisch, published in a collection of letters today.

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