Prime Minister Mark Rutte calls in an interview in the AD for fraternization, now that the corona measures are being phased out. “My call is now, to myself and to all people: let’s visit each other again. Listen to each other. Stand next to each other.”
‘Listen carefully to the other’
“As if it is no longer possible to talk about a QR code, a booster or a vaccine, without leading to violent conflicts. The Netherlands has always discussed vigorously. We have no hierarchy. We are direct. But the undertone was always there. one with self-mockery, listening carefully to the other.”
The prime minister does not think that his message conflicts with the fact that he has been the messenger of the corona measures for two years. “I chose politics. When a monster presents itself, you have to look it in the eye. That monster is the pandemic. And it could only be combated with severe measures. And now I say, also to myself, and to my 17 million fellow countrymen: a lot has happened, but we have to find each other again a little bit.”
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