A shame the news has to be distorted to fit a narrative again.
There is no long standing criticism of systemic racism. That's entirely down to this years hype because in some backward country overseas a suspect died in custody and a rather intimidating and heavily subsidized group of activists has gained momentum for their dubious agenda by pretending it's anything like the USA or even the UK here, because all the West is the same or something, all whites are racist, stuff like that. There was no mention of systemic racism prior to this spring, and citizienship is not race of course.
This was huge breach of the rule of law which is the result of this and previous VVD-governments purposely undermining the rule of law for the past 10 years, after CDA-governments (together with the VVD often) beeing very sloppy and often indifferent to the rule of law prior to 2010. The problem was not that people were investigated, the problem was that they didn't stand a chance once against a lying and cheating bureaucracy once they were subject to investigation and assumed to be guilty and had to depend on the Dutch judicial system that is held in high regard by most because they have no idea about their incompetence and lack of integrity that has crept in, also mostly in the last 20 years.
Using dual citizenship data was simply without legal base and therefore not allowed. You can't use data unless there is a law that explicitely allows for it. So they got a slap on the wrist by the privacy board, a wrist slapping institution. That's really a minor and rather unharmful side issue. You can even question whether it should be allowed because it's an added fraud risk simply because foreign citizenship makes people get away with robbing the Dutch welfare system, unlike those who remain in the Netherlands, there is no escaping the Dutch collectors and they are harsh as this news shows.
I agree Dijsselbloem is a proper cnut. He calls himself a social democrat, but acted like a bailiff for the parasites of the financial sector that got Greece and the EU in this awkward position in the first place, what he did wat both antidemocratic and antisocial.
I also agree he should have picked his words more carefully. As a social democrat he should have told the truth: Mario Draghi is a capo, he should be in jail because at Goldman Sachs he was responsible for the fraudulent financial contstruction that got Greece into the euro. As a social democratic he should have said that those who save money have money, and the banks, the ECB and the governments that are incapable of orderly finances should keep their steeling fingers out of Dutch pensions and other savings.
Basically the Southern-European banks are on life support by the ECB printing thousands of billions of euro's and handing it to them, pretending it is to boost the economy. This is of course at the expense of interest and therefore savings and pensions, and beneficial to those who are in debt becasue they have spent more on booze and girls than they earned. It's not about paying more to the EU budget than poorer countries, allthough the Dutch pay much more than is fair, at least it's out in the open. It's the silent embezzlement through the euro by the unchecked ECB that has no justification whatsoever. That money isn't going to poor Southern-Europeans, that's money taken from relatively poor or middle class Dutch by bankers to give to bankers, relatively rich people.
What Rutte should have said this year at the covid recovery fund meeting is:
- How dare you use covid as a pretext for another theft of Dutch money and undermining support for the covid policy and the EU?
- How dare you North-Italians who are richer than the Dutch claim the solidarity with the poorer Southern-Italians that the North-Italians themselves have managed in the 150 years that Italy exists?
- How dare you France and Spain and Italy use that Dutch money to keep letting your people retire much earlier while making the Dutch retire later and have less of pension?
Of course he didn't because Rutte is a neoliberal, he believes the country is doing great when the international corporate world can make a lot of money from it. He runs it like a colony that has to be exploited.
Since the euro, the Dutch have fallen behind about 25% compared to the Danes who were smart enough not to be part of the euro. The euro is a political project to serve the financial sector and 'European' integration, and a financial disaster for both the Greeks and the Dutch, and many others. It's not like it's meant to beneficial to the people of Spain and other Southern countries, despite the short term benefits, the crumbs thrown at you that you so gratefully and somewhat triumphantly devour.
65% of the Dutch voted against the current EU in a referendum, of course it still is the current EU because a project that is not to serve the people can't be bothered by democracy. About half of the population wasn't in favour of the euro either if I remember the numbers correctly, and they were right because besides a massive failure in general, the euro has taken a massive chunk out of Dutch savings.
