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  • Those people voted on the party because of the guy who started it (Pieter Omtzigt). He was very good at being a politician, but not very good at being a leader. Long story short, they didn’t deliver and failed to make an impact, despite their honest intentions. Pieter Omtzigt burned out within a year and the voters basically flocked back to the party they voted for in the election(s) before NSC was there.




  • a popular national newspaper in your country

    Sure, i don’t want to disagree,

    We have actual journalists and newspapers who cover this in depth and with journalistic experience, research and integrity

    But there are YouTubers and online influencers who qualify as ‘actual journalist’. Sure this guy is pro-european and not unbiased, but to discard him as some random guy with a camera is really not fair.


  • If they want to have a coalition of 4 there is basically two flavours:

    1. D66, CDA, VVD + GL-PvdA
    2. D66, CDA, VVD + JA21

    Option one is blocked by VVD because they consider GL-PvdA too left, mainly because of their policies on taxing the rich used to pay for measurements against climate change. If PvdA turns out to be willing to accept a more moderate apprach, this would lead to a sturdy majority.

    D66 and CDA have a problem with JA21 because of what they see as immoral policies. They are strongly against migration and use the controversial term of remigration because they’d like to give money migrated people with dutch passports to leave the country/the eu and live somewhere else. They also want to continue drilling for gas, but that is probably less of an issue because they already said they want to do this after 2030 (long story). If JA21 accepts a more reasonable stance on migration they could become an acceptable partner but they would only have a small majority.

    If these 2 options don’t work out they will have to look for a coalition with 5 parties which would be a first. Or they could have a minority cabinet, but since both D66 and CDA are big on there having to be a stable government i don’t think that will happen soon either.




  • It’s a great step in the right direction, though the headline didn’t make me immediately understand what it will mean. Here is the first and last paragraph for those who don’t want to visit the source:

    The European Commission today adopted a decision establishing the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC), a new instrument enabling Member States to jointly develop, deploy and operate cross-border digital infrastructures with dedicated governance and legal personality.

    DC-EDIC opens a new chapter for Europe’s digital future - helping administrations, businesses and citizens benefit from trustworthy, interoperable and reusable digital building blocks developed in and for Europe.




  • huppakee@piefed.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyzEverytime
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    The Netherlands (literally the low lands) began as a group of provinces (‘lands’) banding together. The most famous one (on a global scale I mean) is Holland , because that’s were Amsterdam is and the VOC is from for example. Another big player back then was Zeeland (you likely only know New Zeeland, but this is the og one). Aside from Holland and Zeeland there are other lands in The Netherlands and the people from those regions typically prefer The Netherlands over Holland. Nobody cares enough that they would take issue with it, but many care enough to want to explain it to you.


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    The English word for the people from the Netherlands (‘Dutch’) and German word for German ('Deutsch) have exactly the same root. Back then the word referred to a much larger group of people. Over time these languages became more distinctly different languages (as opposed to different versions of a similar language) and the English decided to give the German language a new name and not the Dutch.

    Looking back it would have made more sense to continue calling German Dutch because it is more similar to the German word. We use Nederland (Netherland) as name for our country and Nederlands (Netherlandish / Netherlandic) as name for our language.