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For example, in 2011, psychologists at the University of Amsterdam who study Dutch attitudes toward Arab and German minorities discovered that the hormone oxytocin – which has been connected to feelings of trust and cooperation – can actually increase racial bias and xenophobia.
The diagnosis is a familiar one known as "the Dutch disease."
So far, Norway has avoided the worst pitfalls of the Dutch disease by using its massive oil revenues to establish a national savings scheme, the Petroleum Fund, which is permitted to invest only in foreign assets.
If Norway is to avoid succumbing to the Dutch disease, there can be only one solution.
While the European Union’s problems will not be resolved because France has a new president, Sarkozy’s vision of a simplified constitutional treaty to replace the draft that French and Dutch voters rejected in 2005 is more realistic than Royal’s call for a new referendum.
Just before the EU finally tightened its sanctions at the end of July, Marietje Schaake, a Dutch MEP, observed that almost every European country had “voluntarily handed over power to Mr. Putin, allowing him to play countries against each other.”
The Dutch Labor Market Fudge Creates JobsAMSTERDAM: The Dutch like to think of themselves as leaders in social policy.
With unemployment in Germany, France and Italy around 10%, the Dutch jobless rate, at less than 3%, is the envy of Europe.
Holland is that rare example of a booming welfare state (“overheating” was the word used to describe the Dutch economy by three central bankers in Frankfurt).
True, Dutch trade unions have moderated wage demands.
Instead, credit structural reforms in the Dutch labor market for the jobs boom.
The move to part-time employment in Holland was intended to increase female participation in the Dutch labor force.
Regular full-time employees are almost impossible to sack under Dutch law, but employers can fire part-time workers and not renew temporary contracts when they expire.
An extraordinarily high proportion of the labor force - 12% - is officially classified as “sick” or “invalid” because putting a worker on disability is practically the only way Dutch employers have of ridding their firms of unwanted full-time employees.
So, while still extremely low for continental Europe, the official Dutch unemployment rate underestimates the true level of joblessness in the Dutch economy, because it excludes the disguised unemployment of the “sick” and “disabled”.
Were Dutch law to permit the sacking of full time employees (not likely in these prosperous times) the proportion of the work force officially sanctioned as too sick or disabled to work would dramatically decline, as would the number of part-time and temporary workers.
There appears to be a right way, a wrong way, and a Dutch way of doing things.
Although this system works for the Dutch, can it work for the rest of Europe?
The Dutch solution best fits Europe’s present political realities: Keep welfare rules in place, but give people the chance to get around them.
The Dutch solution can work for other European countries.
This Dutch solution may be second best, but in Europe it’s the only alternative that works.
The unexpectedly weak performance of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) in the Dutch election on March 15 seems to suggest this.
If voters in France’s upcoming presidential election prove closer to the Dutch than to Americans and Britons in their susceptibility to xenophobia and protectionism, their decision will have global implications for politics, economics, and the ideology of global capitalism.
Two and a half years ago, the Dutch government teamed up with IBM and a group of small and medium-size local businesses to jumpstart a big-data hub in the far-northern village of Dwingeloo, home to the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.
IBM provides the processing power for the data, while local Dutch companies are building all of the components.
Beyond its own specific objectives, the initiative can help to catalyze a broader transformation of the Dutch tech culture.
But mendacity and deception worthy of the dictators of the 1930s was certainly on display in the United Kingdom’s “Leave” campaign, and in the opposition to a Dutch referendum in April to approve an EU-Ukraine free-trade and association agreement.
In the Dutch case, Euroskeptics, seeking to drive a wedge between the Netherlands and the EU, exploited the 2014 tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which departed from Amsterdam and was shot down over Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists, leaving a deep wound in the Dutch public psyche.
The party founded by the flamboyant populist Pim Fortuyn is now the second largest in the Dutch legislature.
He had a Bentley and butler, whereas most Dutch politicians make do with a housewife and a bicycle.
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