Peter-Vincent Schuld I grew up during the Cold War. The nuclear missiles were pointed at each other. Pernicious communism in the face of the free West. Capitalism was embraced by the Russians after the fall of communism and has since taken on a superlative form of how we know it here in the West. Everything […]
Bernd Carpenter There is little nature in the Netherlands, but fortunately we do have the Wild West where fences and bullets determine the rules. “There is only one of the Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands. In fact, there is no area in the whole of Europe that can be compared to the Oostvaardersplassen.’ Thank goodness a […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Hatred equals negativity. That doesn’t help anyone. Every right-thinking person wants us to treat each other in a decent way. But in order to keep our habitat pleasant, we have to protect our freedom. Then sometimes you have to stand up and say “stop this”. The people who fell for our freedom were […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld If you read, watch and listen carefully, you will see that the “tolerant” society has really been put under maximum high voltage these weeks. While the acting mayor of Amsterdam, Van Aartsen, cheerfully states that Salafism is not a movement within Islam and that we should reach out to Salafists, the Dutch intelligence […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Nooit te voren heeft uw verslaggever zoveel mensen weten weg te vallen uit zijn kring van bekenden, naasten en zeer naasten en dat in zo’n korte periode. Van nabij sloeg hij een verlies gade, leefde mee, rouwde mee. Hierbij een exact en waar gebeurd verhaal. Omwille van de privacy van betrokkenen kiezen we […]
Koos van Houdt Between 2002 and 2004, Aart Jan de Geus and Mark Rutte were ministers and state secretaries at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. De Geus has been chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin since 2012. Last Friday we saw the ‘old boys network’ in action. Is there […]
Koos van Houdt If there is a place where ’the devil is in the details’, it is in the negotiations on a common European asylum and migration policy. There have been and are fine words about it. But if Greece and Italy are faced with a disproportionate burden, the other Member States will simply look […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld Your reporter’s only experience with ice skating dates back decades and is limited to riding some crooked skates and to be honest, occasionally stepping on “thin ice”. But we can imagine, albeit with difficulty, that you want to go to that slippery stuff with the onset of cold. Every time an ice age […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld As a multinational company, you can’t easily do well in the eyes of many citizens and governments. Everyone is talking about climate change, safety during production processes, earthquake damage as a result of gas extraction and all it takes is for that to happen and the image of a company is quickly damaged […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld On the morning of January 8, 1962, nineteen minutes past nine, two passenger trains collided. The sad result: 93 dead and 52 wounded. The biggest train disaster in Dutch history has taken place and will go down in the books as the “Train Disaster at Harmelen”. An event that has not been erased […]
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