Etiket: opinion
Opinion | Crossing – NRC
My wife and I were taking a walk in the woods using a route description. The assignment was ‘ignore side paths and turn left at the first intersection of paths’.…
DEBATE OF THE DAY. Is a working week of up to 48 hours a good idea or unhealthy? This is your opinion
Open Vld wants to allow employees to work up to 48 hours a week. MP Vincent Van Quickenborne has a bill ready to abolish the legal limit of 100 overtime…
Opinion | Noise – NRC
Four volleyball courts in a sports hall is quite a lot and balls from neighboring matches regularly roll into our field and the rally is stopped to avoid injuries. Last…
Von der Leyen’s candidacy for a second term as President of the European Commission is a positive contribution to European democracy | opinion
Ursula von der Leyen’s decision to run for a second term as President of the European Commission is a positive contribution to democracy in Europe, says Pieter de Wilde. According…
Opinion | Cremation music – NRC
I write life stories for funerals and therefore have some experience with the colorful revolution within cremation music. Live Tyrolean yodelling, a CD full of war planes flying overhead, rapping…
Opinion | City mom – NRC
For the reunion of the childbirth puffing course, we took our one-year-old offspring to the baby play Meh in Amsterdam. You could show your child around the farm while singing…
Opinion | Climate optimism is necessary – but it must be factual
The damage caused by fossil fuels is becoming increasingly visible: devastating forest fires in Canada, the skies darken as far away as New York; floods in Pakistan are displacing more…
OPINION. Why it might be more ‘ethical’ to invest in defense than in speculaas
There was a time when banks promised to make the world a better place with your savings. They would never, ever invest that in the arms industry. But editor-in-chief Dimitri…
Opinion | Fairy tale – NRC
Four years after the corona outbreak, these are the bizarre news reports of the new normal. In Antarctica, two seagulls threaten countless penguins with bird flu. In India, a very…
Opinion | Fumbling – NRC
I’m picking up my wife from work on Monday, because of the rain. I’m 10 minutes early. A strange scene unfolds in the parking lot. A man arrives, gets into…