Search

The French will not tolerate predators profiting at the expense of the national community with the fruits of their plundering. Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella both called for increased cooperation between these online resale platforms and investigators to identify those responsible for these thefts. #Vinted #Leboncoin #Vols (translated)

When we see that there are young people who, on social media or online sales platforms, show off stolen goods to resell them, we must be able to identify a certain number of them. Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella both called for increased cooperation between these online resale platforms and investigators to identify those responsible for these thefts. #Vinted #Leboncoin #Vols (translated)

Jordan Bardella and Gabriel Attal are asking for the help of Vinted and Leboncoin to assist the state in identifying the thieves who attempted to sell stolen goods during the recent protests, emphasizing that the French will not tolerate the enrichment of predators at the expense of the community. #Vinted #Leboncoin #Vols (translated)

I get so angry about the absolutely unequal playing field for Ukraine, and how deeply bad and stupid the traitor Trump is. Putin is bad AND smart, and Trump is pudding in his hands. Europe should do much more and quickly. I'm not a fan of royalty, but bring in the royal families. That's what he is sensitive to. (translated)

Meri stated that Stephan van Baarle had not given a substantive answer to a question from JA21 member Ranjith Clemminck about the financing of reparations to descendants of enslaved people. According to her, the intended recipients had never been slaves themselves and did not know anyone who had. She wrote that slavery in the Dutch colonies had been abolished 163 years earlier. Meri found Van Baarle's tone contemptuous and said he had called Clemminck a "greenhorn." She asserted that an elected representative in the Netherlands had the right to ask critical questions and accused Van Baarle of behaving as if he were in Turkey. She also called him a stain on the parliament and used an insulting description for him. https://t.co/51imqS9OlJ #politiek #slavernij #Nederland (translated)

Ondřej Černý wrote that he came from a poor family and recalled from his grandmother's stories how she counted the siblings who had died as young children from illnesses, such as "božec," meaning febrile convulsions. He mentioned that there was no money for doctors back then and that the family always valued food very much. Later, he noted that he discovered that Ukrainians have a similar relationship with food due to ancestral memories of the Holodomor. He also recalled the text from Ork about a rich man who extinguished a cigar on an ox's eye, and about gluttony being essentially a sin and the childish destruction of a good thing. He wrote that for "this" his late grandmother would have given Filípek a whack. In conclusion, he contrasted adults who tried to improve the world around them with those he labeled as big children seeking attention through expensive toys and loud behavior. #historie #paměť #rodina (translated)

Pepijn van Houwelingen wrote that, according to him, an unknown part of the cabinet's policy was determined by binding NATO resilience targets that were secret from the House of Representatives. He referred to a research article by Marit Nubé, in which, according to the fragment he cited, it stated that the Netherlands could not disclose the targets without NATO's permission. Defense had informed NieuwRechts that no formal permission had ever been requested for that and that the cabinet also had no plans to do so. In response to the question of whether the targets had been shared confidentially with a parliamentary committee, the ministry had answered, according to the fragment: "No." #NAVO #politiek #transparantie (translated)

Oscar Hammerstein wrote that intimidation and hate-mongering at Dam Square, in his opinion, undermined the freedom that is commemorated there. He argued that disgust and outrage were not enough and that leaders must set and enforce boundaries. According to him, moral authority was demonstrated by the willingness to act, not by the sharpness of statements. https://t.co/PvRsApoJEQ #vrijheid #respect #samenleving (translated)

Impact reported that Yaël Braun-Pivet did not wish to reduce the remuneration of MPs, while the government asked the French to tighten their belts. The account noted that the President of the National Assembly had defended maintaining their salary by presenting them as ordinary French citizens. Impact estimated the remuneration of an MP to be around 7,637 euros gross per month, to which around 11,000 euros monthly would be added to pay up to five collaborators and approximately 7,200 euros for advance mandate expenses. The account also mentioned the covering of certain travel expenses — trains, flights between Paris and the constituency, taxis or ride-hailing services and Pass Navigo —, rooms at the Assembly, capped reimbursement for hotels, childcare assistance under certain conditions, as well as specific social protection and retirement benefits. For Yaël Braun-Pivet, Impact estimated her personal remuneration at around 15,336 euros gross per month, including the President's allowance. The account added that she had an official residence at the Hôtel de Lassay, approximately 11,463 euros monthly for her collaborators, and around 7,238 euros for operational expenses, including professional taxis and ride-hailing services. It also mentioned the covering of her travel expenses and her Pass Navigo according to the Assembly's rules, as well as her social protection and parliamentary retirement. Impact cited LCI, the National Assembly, and Brut as sources. #Politique #France #Economie (translated)

Sander Sassen stated that entrepreneurs with debts to their own BV had not secretly funneled the borrowed money away, but had built it up from liquid assets that, according to him, had already been taxed. He wrote that for such loans, the same market-conform rules applied as for regular lenders and that they did not constitute free money, as repayment was mandatory. According to Sassen, the BV and the managing director-major shareholder had already paid taxes, and above the existing threshold of five hundred thousand, direct taxation in box 2 applied. Therefore, he believed that the loans did not provide an unfair advantage for entrepreneurs compared to those without their own business. Sassen warned that a reduction of the threshold to one hundred thousand retroactively would affect entrepreneurs who had already sold assets, sometimes their homes, to pay off debts after reductions in 2023 and 2024. According to him, they were often tied to long-term plans and could not repay more quickly. He stated that bankruptcies and job losses could be the consequence of this. Sassen also referred to the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors (NOB), which, according to him, anticipated a massacre among entrepreneurs who had reached their repayment threshold after the reductions in 2023 and 2024. He said that the proposal undermined existing agreements and urged politics not to further disadvantage entrepreneurs. #ondernemen #belasting #financiering (translated)