Netherlands

• Jan 19th, 2021

  Netherlands – notorious tax haven has put families under pressure for years

  The Dutch government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned last Friday (15 January 2021), following hours of deliberations. The four-party coalition made up of the right-wing liberal VVD, Christian Democrats, liberal Democrats 66 and Calvinist Christian Union will stay on as a caretaker government for the time being
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  Aug 1st, 2018

  How the Dutch trade union confederation got itself out of the crisis

  April 2014. All of the cleaning staff in the Netherlands who clean buildings belonging to the government and the state administration stop work at the same time and travel to protest in The Hague. Nobody cleans the parliament in the Dutch capital. Trains are left overflowing with rubbish. No one cleans Schiphol Airport ...
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  Apr 3rd, 2017

  Fights We Can Win

  Delivering his acceptance speech as the newly elected leader of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands (SP) towards the end of 2015, Ron Meyer informed his comrades they "have to do things differently. […] Not a little bit differently, but completely different." The former campaigner from the ...