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Frans Timmermans's powerful, eloquent speech to the UN on Flight MH17:
“Did they lock hands with their loved ones? Did they hold their children close to their hearts? Did they look each other in the eyes one final time in a wordless goodbye? We will never know. The demise of almost 200 of my compatriots has left a hole in the heart of the Dutch nation. It has caused grief, anger and despair.”
Arjen Robben’s comments following the Netherlands’ second-round Wold Cup match against Mexico, in which he appeared to admit to diving, have caused a certain amount of uproar. The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) weighed in today with a statement in which it accused the international media of misinterpreting the winger’s remarks:
“Media have interpreted statements from Robben in a Dutch post match interview completely wrong.
"In a studio interview with Dutch broadcaster NOS, the forward stated that the decision of the referee to give a penalty in the second half of the game was perfectly right.
"However, in the same interview Robben referred to two situations earlier in the match [first half], when he was brought down.
"The striker stated that in one of those situations he should have been granted a penalty, but that in the other case he was falling too easily."
Here’s what Robben actually said to NOS interviewer Jack van Gelder:
"Ik moet wel heel eerlijk zeggen en gelijk mijn excuses aanbieden: in de eerste helft daarvoor maakte ik echt een schwalbe. Dat moet ik echt niet doen want het is een stomme, stomme actie."
And here’s what it means in English:
“I have to be very honest and apologise straight away: in the first half I took a dive. I shouldn’t do it, it’s a stupid, stupid move.”
Robben used the word “schwalbe” which has a specific meaning in Dutch football. It’s the German name for swallow (the bird, that is) and was adopted in the 1970s to denote a deliberate dive. Several years ago Dutch TV’s highlights show from the German Bundesliga had a regular slot called “Schwalbe van de dag”, which featured the most spectacular and outrageous attempts to con the referee, overlaid with ballet music. The meaning of schwalbe in this context, for all the KNVB’s protestations, is unambiguous. It went beyond suggesting that he “fell too easily”: Robben admitted taking a dive.
The winger’s honesty was refreshing – and he was clear that the incident that decided the game was a genuine penalty: “Ik werd neergehaald [I was brought down].” Sadly the KNVB’s clarification was anything but. It was an obfuscation that did a disservice to the KNVB’s status as the official representative of Dutch football. Perhaps we should put it down to a lapse of judgment made at a moment of extreme stress, like a Mexican defender’s lunge, and move on. But journalists should interpret the KNVB’s statements with great care from now on. Dit was niet voor herhaling vatbaar, as the Dutch say. You can look that one up yourself.
The KNVB has become the second European football association to confirm it is introducing goal-line technology next season. Here's a showreel of 'goals that never were' down the ages - including Clive Allen's famous 'stanchion' free-kick for Tottenham in 1980.
Amsterdam gets ready for an historic Queen's Day (Koninginnedag) on April 30. Queen Beatrix is abdicating after 33 years on the throne in favour of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, and his Argentinian wife Maxima. Willem-Alexander will be the first King of the Netherlands for 123 years.
This is the message posted on 4Chan threatening a mass shooting that prompted police and the municipality to close all secondary schools in Leiden on Monday morning.
(Source: NOS News)
Herman Emmink, who became synonymous the Dutch version of Tulips in Amsterdam (the song later popularised in English by Max Bygraves) has died. See a video of the ultimate smartlap.
Dutch-speaking 'jihadist fighters' filmed in Syria
After the Dutch intelligence service reported that the number of people from the Netherlands fighting in Syria had risen dramatically since the start of the year, a video has appeared on YouTube of Dutch speakers at a training camp in Syria.
From AT5: A bus carrying 21 Japanese passengers to Schiphol accidentally jettisoned their luggage on the A10 motorway on its way to the airport. Happily the tourists retrieved their suitcases and still managed to catch their flights. See story: Bus laat spoor van koffers achter op A10
A report into September's rioting in the commuter town of Haren is fiercely critical of the way police and municipal authorities handled the situation. Former Amsterdam mayor and Labour party leader Job Cohen said poor communication and planning hampered efforts to keep order among the 3000 people who descended on the town on September 21 in response to a campaign organised mainly through Facebook. The video above shows (from 01:06) how messages spread rapidly around the social network in the two weeks leading up to the 'Project X' event, reaching a critical mass on September 17, four days before the riots.
Source: NOS
Arnoud van Doorn, a former functionary in Geert Wilders's right-wing anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV), announced last week he had converted to Islam. In an interview with Al Jazeera he explains the reasons behind his dramatic and unlikely change of course. (h/t to BBC Hague correspondent Anna Holligan).
(Source: Twitter)
The seven paintings stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal on October 16. (Images released by Rotterdam police)
March 3 2013: 160 people paddled down Amsterdam's canals on surfboards in the kind of outfits that even golfers would think twice about wearing. Did you see the Stand Up Paddle?
More pictures here: http://www.at5.nl/gespot/97649/hiswa-sup-tocht
Dutch government's planned cuts and tax rises for 2014
Analysis by the government's official forecasters predicts the budget deficit will reach 3.4% in 2014 at current levels of spending. As a result Mark Rutte's cabinet is looking to save €4 billion through cuts and tax increases. Here is a summary of the outline plans announced by finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem:
€1.1 billion will come from raising income tax across the board and freezing rebates.
€2 billion from maintaining a pay freeze on civil servants and extending it to healthcare workers.
€500 million from continuing a 16 per cent tax introduced last year on salaries over €150,000.
€640 million from abandoning proposed measures to lighten the tax burden on businesses.
€700 million through not raising government expenditure in line with inflation.
In addition, the cabinet will invest €500 million in an economic stimulus package and €300 million in extra funding for people on the lowest earnings to encourage consumer spending.
Dutch financial forecasts for 2013-2014
The figures below were released by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), the government's official number crunchers, on February 28, 2013. The figures are one of the key measures used to determine financial policy for the next year. The government is committed to bringing the budget deficit within the European norm of 3% by 2014, through spending cuts and tax rises if necessary.
(source: CPB/ De Volkskrant)
The budget deficit (4% in 2012) will be 3.3% in 2013 and 3.4% in 2014.
GDP to shrink by 0.5% in 2013, then grow by 1% in 2014.
Unemployment to go from 5.3% in 2012 to 6.25% (560,000 people) in 2013 and 6.5% (575,000) in 2014.
Household spending to shrink by 1.5% in 2012 and 2013, then increase by 0.25% in 2014.
More details (in English): http://www.cpb.nl/en/pressrelease/3212847/dutch-budget-deficit-2013-and-2014-higher-than-3-percent
Geert Wilders gives an interview to Lateline Australia ahead of his speaking tour. Someone needs to teach him how to say 'totalitarian'.