Forget tulips and windmills, the Netherlands is the dirty old man of Europe | Open Democracy - 2021 |

The Dutch image of a progressive paradise is just good PR - you only have to look at its record on the climate

Progressives in the UK and US often seem to think that if we only had proportional representation all our political woes would be solved. But if the Netherlands is anything to go by, think again. After seven months of political wrangling and two failed votes of no confidence in `caretaker' prime minister Mark Rutte, it's looking like the next Dutch cabinet will be made up of exactly the same parties as the last one. This is despite the fact that 71% of Dutch voters oppose carrying on as before.

[Rutte III re-invented as Rutte IV .., ]

German climate movement Letzte Generation will come to The Hague to join Extinction Rebellion

Why not ... the German provide their protest control water canons ... damn reminds me of 1940-45 Nazi occupation and Gestapo in my district.

Hasbara is a dead language