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Opinion February 2012
FT Magazine: Meet Europe's new scapegoats After September 11 the Muslims took a beating. Now it’s the turn of eastern and southern Europeans, writes Simon Kuper in FT Magazine.
Herb Prooy thinks PvdA party chairman Hans Spekman is not a winning personality. Or two. More... comments (1)
Will the new PvdA leader dance to Rutte's tune? What the papers say Over the coming weeks the PvdA party membership is going to decide who should be the new leader. Should Rutte be worried? More...Paul Schnabel: Holland in the tropics Paul Schnabel on Suriname thirty years after independence. More...Job Cohen quits - What the papers say Job Cohen has stepped down amid cries of both ‘pity’ and ‘good riddance’. What the papers say. More... comments (1)Youp van 't Hek: Beam in PVV's eye is Pole Youp van ‘t Hek thinks it must have been a jolly evening in the bar when the PVV thought of the idea to report troublesome central and eastern Europeans on a special website. More... comments (1)
Should health care reform be left to investors? Anneke van der Sluis is a former hospital manager who thinks the minister should have the courage to tackle the job herself.
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Herb Prooy thinks pride came before a fall at KPN and Cyber Security head quarters.
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Frans Weisglas: When will Rutte stop his cowardly behaviour towards Wilders? The PVV stigmatises and discriminates against population groups. Their anti-Pole website is the latest proof. When will prime minister Rutte say enough is enough? asks Frans Weisglas. More... comments (5)Malgorzata Bos-Karczewska: Dear Dutch people! Mark Rutte is the prime minister of everyone in the Netherlands and has a duty to defend citizens who were born elsewhere against the PVV smear campaign, writes Malgorzata Bos-Karczewska. More... comments (4)Press statement anti discrimination bureau: PVV site not discriminatory The PVV’s website for registering complaints about central and eastern Europeans is stigmatising but not discriminatory, says national anti discrimination bureau association LBA. More... comments (3)Ajax advisory board: Garden gnomes or saints? With the Ajax supervisory board all but gone - Chairman Steven ten Hage has vowed to serve the club until the last minute – wither Ajax?, asks AD. And are the board members going to be replaced by ‘a couple of garden gnomes’? More...Herb Prooy: Wake up NS, we're all fallible Herb Prooy thinks the NS should have known that technique too is subject to Sod’s law: what can go wrong will go wrong, especially when there’s a dusting of snow on the tracks. More...Paul Schnabel: Private art goes public Patronage of the arts isn't dead in the Netherlands thinks Paul Schnabel and he's not talking about the BankGiro lottery. More...I don't hear that train a comin Three newspapers dedicate the editorial spot to the troubles at Dutch Rail (NS). ‘It’s winter, the trains are standing still’. More...Newsweek: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The global war on Christians in the Muslim world From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Newsweek.The farmer and his choice of wives Boer zoekt vrouw, the long running dating programme for farmers in search of a wife, attracts more than 5 million viewers each week. Why, asks philosopher Eva-Anne Le Coultre in Trouw. More...Carry on people, nothing to see here Three days of frost and we’re frantically digging out our skates with the word ‘Elfstedentocht’ ringing in our tingly ears. More... |
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