Politieke correctheid zet land onder hoogspanning

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 […]

De dodenmars van het ijzige jaargetijde

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 […]

NL Premier Rutte: “Europese commissie is geen regering”

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 […]

Europese wetgeving inzake asiel schiet maar niet op

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 […]

Siberische kou in de Lage Landen: Kijk uit voor als u zich op glad ijs begeeft

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 […]

Shell en de wispelturige samenleving

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 […]

Incidentenbestrijders ProRail: Als treinen of mensen ontspoord raken

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 […]

Pinguïns op de Kaap: Fascinerend en wonderlijk

Peter-Vincent Schuld You don’t have to be cold to see penguins in real life. The enormous diversity of African nature offers you a perfect solution. I am in Cape Town and let myself be transported along a coastal road that appeals to the idyllic imagination to the surroundings of the picturesque village of Simons Town, […]

D66 wil uw lichaam zelfs recyclen U ziet op de foto een doos met onbruikbare onderdelen

Peter-Vincent Schuld The circular economy in medicine? If it is up to the Dutch social-liberal party D66, the state threatens to take away the right of self-determination over one’s own body after your death. It doesn’t get any crazier than that. It’s not that we don’t want someone who needs a donor organ to do […]

Prinses Beatrix 80 jaar

Peter-Vincent Schuld Wat valt er nog te schrijven over prinses Beatrix. Ik maak geen deel uit van de roddelpers, ik wil er geen deel van uitmaken en de dingen die mij ten gehore zijn gekomen over het privé-leven van onze voormalige koningin, doe ik af als geruchten en geen feiten, of de informatie behoort tot […]