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12 October 2011

SP Senators vote against European emergency fund

The SP group in the Senate has voted against the further raising of the European emergency fund by the sum of €42 billion. With the money the government hopes to be able to combat the financial and economic crisis in the European Union, but according to SP Senator Geert Reuten ministers are unable to say when and for what purpose moneys from the funds can be drawn. ‘You don’t agree a mortgage contract without clear conditions,’ Senator Reuten points out. ‘And you do that in order to avoid trouble.’

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12 October 2011

Occupy movement comes to the Netherlands!

Next Saturday will see world-wide actions against the excesses of the capitalist system, including demonstrations in Amsterdam and The Hague.

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11 October 2011

Parliament supports SP proposal for total ban on bonuses at state-supported banks

A ban on bonuses paid out by banks which the state is called upon to support financially must not only apply to executive staff, but also to all other bankers. A majority of MPs this afternoon supported a proposal to this effect from SP Member of Parliament Ewout Irrgang. ‘When you support a bank using taxpayers’ money,’ says Irrgang, ‘the aim is not to allow the bank to carry on dishing out bonuses. This proposal means that a ban can be imposed whenever it becomes necessary to aid a bank financially.’

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9 October 2011

State secret

On the morning of 6th October I suddenly found myself in possession of a state secret. I didn’t want to be, but there it was all the same. The secret in question was an account of a discussion on 4th October in the Rijksministerraad – the Netherlands’ state council of ministers - of a report on the government of Curaçao. Chaired by Prime Minister Rutte, the Rijksministerraad covers the whole of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including remaining overseas possessions, and consists of members of the Dutch government and representatives of Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten. Leaking information from this state council is a criminal offence, one for which you can go to prison. Yet politicians on Curaçao deliberately distributed the account.

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8 October 2011

'War in Afghanistan is becoming ever more a Gordian knot.'

Ten years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, the conflict has only become more complex and more dangerous. What began as a war against a single country has grown ever more into a regional conflict, and because of this a lasting solution is disappearing further and further over the horizon.

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7 October 2011

Ombudsman speaks out: 'Social rental accommodation is also for those on average incomes’

SP Member of Parliament Sadet Karabulut is attracting increasing support for her fight against the agreement between the government and the European Commission which effectively excludes those on average incomes from consideration for social housing. Latest to speak out is the public broadcasting corporation VARA’s Ombudsman, who joins a majority of MPs in expressing support for Karabalut’s call on Home Affairs Minister Piet Hein Donner’s to return to Brussels to ensure that social accommodation is also available to people earning incomes which, while lifting them well above the poverty line, are insufficient to enable them to buy their own homes.

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