Etiket: opinion
Opinion | Merry greeting – NRC
The daughter (8) and I are standing at a parking meter in The Hague. Hassle: coins, debit card, zone number, parking times. Someone is coming. Formiliar face. I go through…
Opinion | Brain Surgeon – NRC
The train from Amsterdam to Brussels is delayed near Breda. A passenger explodes in anger and rants unreasonably at the conductor. When the passenger has finished raging and walks away,…
Reactions to Mark Rutte’s departure: ‘Successors are already in the starting blocks after the fall of the cabinet’ | Opinion
‘It is to be hoped that there will be a reliable, stable and decisive cabinet. The Netherlands is teeming with experts, all you have to do is turn on the…
Opinion | Debt – NRC
I rent one at the hotel where we are staying e bike. The band appears slack. I take the bicycle pump. Unsolicited, an unknown hotel guest takes the pump off…
Opinion | Rutte, stop with dangerous political theater about asylum seekers
When it comes to migration, we only hear Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD) about asylum seekers. But there are 600,000 EU migrant workers. 150,000 expatriates. And 20 million foreign tourists…
Opinion | Nothing wrong – NRC
I had clearly explained to the insurance doctor: nothing wrong with my thinking ability, only full-time work is not possible. The report states: Ms. can work full time, but at…
Opinion | Green tea – NRC
In 2013 I visit our daughter and our newborn granddaughter with my husband. We are on vacation on the German island of Rügen and my tall husband walks with his…
Reactions to mobile phones in the classroom: ‘Don’t forget to involve the parents (biggest ‘criminals’)’ | Opinion
“This is obviously a step in the right direction. Also teach how to hold a mobile phone or tablet’ and ‘Read in the AD that the police and OM are…
Opinion | Songbirds – NRC
When I sit on the couch with a cappuccino in the morning, I often look at the various songbirds in the pine tree outside, behind the window. Kind of zen.…
Opinion | Humble – NRC
My wife and I are both over 65 years old. I am almost 70 years old myself. We feel young and don’t look like people over 65, we think. The…