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This New Year’s Eve, around 100 million euros worth of fireworks will go up again. Tradition, we say. But unfortunately it is also a tradition that every New Year’s Eve officers, firefighters, ambulance workers and police horses are attacked with fireworks bombs. Time for a cultural change, writes political reporter Hans van Soest in this commentary.

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