The view from my hotel room in Kampen, where I’m staying for a few days to play at a wonderful chamber music festival. In the picture the huge cathedral that towers over the town. #iphone#blackandwhitephotography#Netherlands#music#ontour
Enormous hugs 🤗 and strength 💪 to those of you in the #Netherlands dealing with this enclave of actual nazis and their alleged conservative/centrist collaborators. Who have revealed themselves also as nazis.
This unthinkable group of filth will not dim your own ideals or resistance.
It is so depressing. OK, the speed limits is as much a statement of intent as a meaningful measure (ave you ever tried driving in the Netherlands), but depressing ostrich like behaviour all the same.
"Speaker of the House of Representatives, Martin Bosma (PVV [extreme right]), intervened in a plenary parliamentary debate on Thursday. Volt MP Laurens Dassen was not allowed by him to call the PVV "extreme-right"."
"The term refers to national socialism, Bosma said: "I see it as a Nazi comparison". "I don't think we should label groups or members of the States General as extreme-right"
Dassen: "If we are not allowed to name this in parliament [that PVV indeed is an extreme right party], it becomes very oppressive."
He thought the term was justified: "If you as a party have been casting suspicion on judges for years, calling journalists scum and saying of groups of Dutch people that they don't belong," that term is possible, Dassen said."
From Otjes, S. & de Jonge, L., "The Netherlands: Political Developments and Data in 2023: Two Landslide Populist Victories", European Journal of Political Research (2024).
The newly agreed #Dutch coalition government on Thursday plans the "strictest-ever" #asylum policy, including an opt-out from European Union rules. After six months in the making, the 26-page coalition agreement proposes to “deport people without a valid residence permit as much as possible, even forcibly”. Monte Francis reports. #Netherlands#EU#immigration#FarRight
Under outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands has been a staunch ally of Ukraine, being one of the few partners to pledge F-16 fighter jets.
I'm honestly still in shock from just how horrible the new coalition in the #Netherlands is. I mean, I knew it was going to happen for over a decade, but now that it actually happened... fuck.
These are #european bison rather than imports from the #us . Thirty years ago they were almost extinct - small populations in north east #romania and north east #poland They have since been introduced elsewhere - including the #netherlands and even the #english county of #kent - somewhere normally not at all keen on anything #european !
I don't follow news from my home country #netherlands much, but I just saw that the coalition is going as fashy as possible. With the liberals (note for Americans, liberalism is not left wing in most of the world) being the most left wing party in the coalition.
“It is recommended that politics and policy focus on a society that can respond resiliently to the effects of #ClimateChange, both in spatial planning and economic activities and behavior.”
Good luck with that. Two decades of conservatives-led governments have gone all in for airport expansion and such, and the far-right Wilders who just may be the next PM is really not into climate action.
Netherlands' incoming coalition government reaffirms support for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Under outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands has been a staunch ally of Ukraine, being one of the few partners to pledge F-16 fighter jets.