Peter-Vincent Schuld A few more weeks and many of you will be going on holiday by car again. Cars and caravans packed on the French motorways to the south. Arrive at your destination as soon as possible. Are you thinking about your safety and that of other motorists? Anyway, enough fatherly advice. Although? By the […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Plastic; It pollutes our cities, rural areas, and our oceans. Plastic is a significant part of unacceptable pollution, but it’s not the only problem and it’s not the only story. The problem of waste and pollution is much bigger. The European Commission came up with proposals to ban plastic cutlery, plastic cotton buds, […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld The Netherlands Institute for Social Research has found that Muslims with a Turkish or Moroccan background are becoming increasingly religious. This translates into more frequent mosque visits, more prayers and women increasingly wear a headscarf. So much for this fact, which loosened quite a few tongues and caused a stir. The facts are […]
Koos van Houdt There is a yawning gap between politicians in The Hague and ordinary Dutch people about European policy The best characterization of this: “benevolent indifference” You would think that farmers would like to see part of their income automatically deposited from the European treasury into their checking account every year. But not all […]
Koos van Houdt In The Hague, the European Union is often far away. Even Germany is not next door. It regularly happens that administrators or civil servants in The Hague fall into ‘Randstad thinking’. Their argument is then enlivened with maps, where a kind of virgin area is left white east of the Dutch border. […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Minister Engelshoven van Onderwijs en Cultuur wil dat het aantal apen dat gebruikt wordt voor medische doeleinden drastisch wordt teruggebracht om uiteindelijk volledig gestaakt te worden. Dit heeft ze per brief laten weten aan de Tweede Kamer. Afgelopen jaar stierven er maar liefst 137 apen in het Het Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Belgian metallurgy giant Umicore (formerly Union Miniere) has definitively chosen Nysa in Poland as the location for its new factory for special rechargeable batteries. Due to skyrocketing energy costs, Belgium appears to be too expensive to make a cost-effective investment. The new production site also had to meet the condition that there are […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld It is always nice to see how once closed countries open up. More intensive trade, more intensive contacts. This is certainly true for a country like China. The country’s role on the world stage, both politically and economically, is irreversible. This also means that there is some travel back and forth for both […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld As of today, Facts Found has a new section “The Connection” in which we tell you stories and facts about moving, infrastructure, in short, everything that has to do with transport or maintains a connection. The European continent is anything but mainland. Until 1988, Scandinavia was largely and almost exclusively accessible from Western […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Het sociaal gedrag van vogels bestaat veelal uit geluid maken. Het sociaal gedrag van mensen is in dit opzicht niet veel anders. Een bepaald soort voortbrengen van geluid door mensen noemt men praten. Een alleraardigst instrument in de communicatie. Maar vaak is het praten te omschrijven als kwetteren. Inhoudsloos en elkaar napratend kwetteren. […]
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