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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Peter-Vincent Schuld What’s it going to be? Bummed out as a plug or driving with a plug? I think it’s better that we pull the plug (at least for now) on the current electric drive. Electric cars, we once knew them from the disabled and the street sweepers and if it were up to me, […]
Koos van Houdt They play it cautiously, the group chairmen in the European Parliament. Relations with Member State Poland are difficult enough as it is. But a statement by one Polish MEP Ryszard Czarnecki about his colleague Roza Thun seems to get him into political trouble. Czarnecki called Thun a ‘szmalcownik’. That is an unusual […]
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