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The author stated that the Dutch population had grown from just over 1.1 million since early 2016 to approximately 18.1 million. According to the author, around 173,000 people had died and 167,000 babies had been born in 2025, resulting in negative natural growth and the total growth coming entirely from migration. The author referred to Jan Latten, who estimated the group of Dutch origin at about 12.9 million, and wrote that this group was expected to shrink by 1 to 2 million over the coming decades. By 2050, according to the author, the Netherlands would have about 20 million inhabitants. The author argued that the changing population composition put pressure on social and cultural relations, social cohesion, the welfare state, and the housing market. It was written that rapid changes complicated integration and increased parallel societies and clashing norms and values. According to the author, politicians focused too much on symptom treatment and paid too little attention to population growth due to migration and low birth rates among the indigenous population. The author praised Latten for his expertise and warned that politics, media, and society needed to take demographic changes seriously. https://t.co/wVfulQlN6k #demografie #migratie #socialecohesie (translated)

Harrie Lavreysen remains in the race for his eighth world title in the sprint during the Track Cycling World Championships in Shanghai, where he hopes to redeem himself in the semifinals after a disappointing qualification. #WKbaanwielrennen #HarrieLavreysen #baanwielrennen (translated)

Thijs Zonneveld wrote that Euskaltel had traveled to a little-known race in Panama and sprinted with all its riders to collect enough points for a spot among the top 30 teams. According to him, this would ensure that the team could participate in the Vuelta next year. Zonneveld expected that Euskaltel would succeed in that. #Euskaltel #wielrennen #Vuelta (translated)

Sander Sassen wrote that Rob Jetten's call for all possible support for Ukraine amounted, in his view, to prolonging a war of attrition. He argued that the front line barely moved, that the Russian economy had adapted, and that Western munitions stocks and political support were finite. According to Sassen, diplomatic solutions were wrongly dismissed as a sign of weakness. Sassen referred to Ukrainian estimates of more than 1.5 million Russian dead and wounded and to Western analyses, including those from CSIS, which he claimed spoke of hundreds of thousands of casualties and over one hundred thousand deaths in Ukraine. He argued that the war constituted a demographic disaster for both countries and that further pressure from sanctions and weapons would result in more casualties. Negotiations, according to Sassen, were not capitulation but the way to end the war. He claimed that a full Ukrainian recapture of the borders of 1991 was militarily unrealistic without direct NATO intervention, risking a war with Russia. He advocated for territorial compromises, likely along the current front line, security guarantees for the remaining Ukraine, and an end to mobilization. He noted that Ukrainian men were forcibly taken off the streets in this process. Sassen acknowledged that such compromises would feel unjust and could reward aggression, but argued that they were better than continuing the current bloodshed. He accused Jetten and like-minded individuals of blocking serious diplomacy and urged the Prime Minister to immediately pursue a diplomatic solution. #Oorlog #Diplomatie #Vrede (translated)

My call to the American government and American companies: do what is necessary to support the Ukrainians. They not only need sufficient weapons but also information. The Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called the U.S. 'an unpredictable ally' and asked Donald Trump to adjust his course. #Trump #Oekraïne #Poetin (translated)

Monique X- Fluencer wrote that there were sick children in countries like Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Kurdistan, and in countries where conflicts or wars were taking place. She accused Suzanne_GL of not caring about that and stated that Progressive Netherlands only valued white Islamic children in Gaza. She also claimed that racism and discrimination were very common on the far-left side of the political spectrum. #Racisme #Discriminatie #Oorlog (translated)

We know that there is manipulation through certain funds. During a speech at the Congress of the Turkish Capital Markets Association, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said, "We know that there is manipulation through certain funds." #Turkije #beleggingsfondsen #koersmanipulatie (translated)

The stock market crisis in Turkey, caused by alleged price manipulation by members of President Erdogan's AK party, has led to a loss of 16 percent on the stock index and a partial refund for affected investors, while confidence in the economy is further under pressure from high inflation and a weakening lira. #Turkije #beleggingsfondsen #koersmanipulatie (translated)