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The Gates Foundation supported a major partnership between the Serum Institute of India and SynCo Bio Partners, a Dutch vaccine producer, to produce a low-cost vaccine to protect more than 450 million people in Africa from meningitis.
Organizations – including the BBC, the Dutch public service broadcaster NOS, and others across Europe – have plans in place for journalists responding to incidents in their home cities or those directly targeting their newsrooms.
Still, an overwhelming majority of German (and possibly Dutch and Finnish) economists seem to favor keeping the ECB on the sidelines in the eurozone crisis.
A Dutch remodeling of a gray slab from that era just received a major architecture prize.
This is neither fair nor smart -- and no doubt contributed, to some extent, to the Dutch No vote.
After the Dutch “no,” there is fear that distrust of the European project will spread.
The question put to Dutch citizens will be whether the Netherlands should sign up to an association agreement between the EU and Ukraine.
All other EU member countries have already agreed, but without the Dutch it cannot be ratified.
One might think that the details of trade agreements and tariff barriers with Ukraine would baffle most Dutch voters, and one might also wonder why they should care enough to hold a referendum.
Indeed, the “Dutch Disease” – named for the catastrophic drop in Dutch manufacturing competitiveness after the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea drove up the currency – has become a serious concern.
While American women work 36 hours per week on average, Dutch women put in only 24 hours per week, while German women work 30 hours.
That spat not only prevented a merger, apparently welcomed by the market, with the Dutch firm KPN, it put the Spanish Security and Exchange Commission (CNMV) in a difficult spot as broker between government and a powerful company boss.
Long before the arrival of Muslim guest workers in the 1960’s and 1970’s Dutch society was in a sense ‘multicultural’ in that it was already organised into Protestant, Catholic, liberal and socialist “pillars,” each with its own schools, hospitals, TV stations, papers and political parties.
But at the moment that multiculturalism’s advocates were making this suggestion, Dutch society was undergoing a dramatic transition.
But their turn away from multiculturalism is not what prevented the emergence of a “Islamic” pillar in Dutch society.
When the Zeelanders refused to pay, the French responded by centralizing what had been until that point a rather de-centralized Dutch fiscal system.
When a young Dutch writer, sympathetic to the new populist wave, expressed antipathy to his country’s “cultural elite,” for promoting “atonal music” and other arrogant forms of ugliness, instead of the wholesome beauty embraced by the common man, I wondered whether he knew about the Nazis’ attack on “degenerate art”?
But violence elsewhere in Europe, such as the London bombings of July and the brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2004, had already made Europe’s failure to integrate its minorities painfully clear.
More controversially, the lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a law giving the Jewish and Islamic communities a year to provide evidence that animals slaughtered by traditional methods do not experience greater pain than those that are stunned before they are killed.
Similar tendencies appeared in the Netherlands, which was once committed to multiculturalism, but more recently has sought to confront would-be citizens with images of men kissing and of bare-breasted women emerging from the North Sea – presumably all to get across the point that a true Dutch citizen had better be tolerant.
The Sleeping Volcano of Global FinanceThe rejection of the European Union’s Constitutional Treaty by French and Dutch voters was, according to all evidence, more a rejection of unregulated globalization than it was a rejection of Europe.
Turkey, Europe and Middle-East SecurityMany factors contributed to the French and Dutch objections to the proposed EU Constitution.
Structural support to new members from current EU members, indeed, is expected to be less than 4% of Dutch GNP.
About a decade ago, four Dutch engineers – three of whom were also horticultural experts – initiated the “plant paradise” project to learn how high-value herbs, vegetables, and berries (not grains or tree fruits) grow best.
It is crucial that the Internet’s central protocols be declared a neutral zone, free from interference by any party, as per a recommendation by the scientific council that is advising the Dutch government.
If a euro deposited in a Greek bank would be lost through default and defection, a euro deposited in an Italian bank would immediately be worth less than one in a German or Dutch bank, resulting in a run on the deficit countries’ banks.
His case seems strengthened by the collapse of the Dutch government as a result of the populist Geert Wilders’ objection to German-imposed austerity, as well as by the strength of Le Pen’s support in France.
In fact, this “dualism” is one of the oldest and most fundamental concepts in economic development, first articulated in the 1950’s by the Dutch economist J.H. Boeke, who was inspired by his experiences in Indonesia.
Put Palestine FirstHAIFA – Not long ago, a Dutch journalist interviewed me about the Iranian nuclear question.
“We don’t want the Romanians deciding on how we should order our lives,” a Dutch professor complained.
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