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Mona Keijzer asked Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal how order and safety for teachers and entrepreneurs could be considered extreme right themes. She believed that such statements should be questioned further and wrote that order and safety, in her opinion, were connected to the rule of law. #orde #veiligheid #onderwijs (translated)

Marianne Zwagerman wrote that Maarten Keulemans did not appear at a meeting of the Dutch Press Council on the case that Maurice de Hond had brought against him. The chairperson called that absence unfortunate, according to Zwagerman; former KRO director Ton Verlind, who attended the meeting, felt that Keulemans should have been there. Zwagerman announced a report about the meeting in the program *Dwars door de Politiek*, focusing on De Hond's accusations and the defense by the Volkskrant. Additionally, she and De Hond would discuss, among other things, the unrest in France, a publication in Trouw about side effects of coronavirus vaccines, and the pressure on nitrogen policy. According to her, they also looked back at a celebration marking De Hond's 50 years as a pollster. Zwagerman reported that the broadcast would be live on Sunday at 9:00 PM and would later be available as a podcast. https://t.co/UQzZVVS9yF #Journalistiek #Politiek #Actualiteit (translated)

Paolo Zampolli, a loyal friend of the Trump family and former special envoy of the US, has been fired after controversial actions, including the deportation of his ex-wife and being embroiled in a bizarre email dispute with his supervisor. #PaoloZampolli #Trump #politiek (translated)

Martin Bos wrote that NOS, RTL, SBS, AD, and the regional newspapers, NRC-Handelsblad, Trouw, and the Volkskrant would remain silent. According to him, people would not know it without X, and that was the reason why they wanted to ban X. https://t.co/n0tTgAIuxl #media #vrijheidvanmeningsuiting #censuur (translated)

Weird Duk wrote that the low-intensity civil war discussed a few years earlier by Timon Dias and Arnold Karskens was, in his opinion, escalating. According to Duk, Karskens had been ridiculed for that. He urged people to trust commentators with experience on the ground instead of leftist analysts behind their laptops, who he claimed said that nothing was happening on the continent. #burgeroorlog #nieuws #politiek (translated)

Jan B. Hommel criticized Trouw for, in his opinion, only starting to investigate nearly six years later. He accused the newspaper of presenting itself as objective and highlighting both sides of the story but deemed that approach too late and insufficient. Hommel also criticized Agnes Kant, who, according to him, wanted to investigate the effects of mRNA vaccines. He wondered if Kant had previously stated that the side effects were manageable and claimed that Lareb had fallen short. According to Hommel, Kant's current stance showed that she poorly remembered her earlier statements. He expressed his aversion to the assertion that coronavirus vaccines were crucial for reducing the impact of the pandemic. Hommel said an article would soon be published that would, in his opinion, significantly nuance that assertion. As a meager consolation, he hoped that those involved had been vaccinated themselves. #mRNAvaccins #Trouw #coronavaccins (translated)

Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that, in his opinion, the media repeatedly selected testimonies from people who were active in the PVDA in reports about the consequences of a smaller government. He stated that one of them said they had to skip meals due to the policy but had money for solidarity trips to Cuba. The measure in question limited child benefits to the age of 23, Vande Reyde wrote. He added that there were exceptions for cases with valid reasons and risk of poverty, but claimed that these did not apply to the activists involved. According to Vande Reyde, the same PVDA activists were at the forefront of various protests, from climate marches to protests against coalition agreements. He also claimed that the media once portrayed an adult PVDA member of parliament as a protesting student. Vande Reyde wrote that this kind of reporting was a reason for the historically low trust in the media. #Media #België #PVDA (translated)

The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) urges telecom providers to provide clearer warnings about 'dormant' internet contracts, as loyal customers often pay unnecessarily high amounts after their contract period expires. #ACM #internetcontracten #kostenbesparing (translated)

Irene Kuijpers wrote that a theory which she claimed was labeled as 'extreme right' and conspiracy thinking had resurfaced. She tagged, among others, NOS, Trouw, NU.nl, de Volkskrant, EenVandaag, Jinek, Pauw and de Wit, Buitenhof, WNL Vandaag, WNL Op Zondag, Café Kockelmann, D66, VVD, CDA, and accounts of the House of Representatives. https://t.co/tzGfyI8spv #complottheorie #extreemrechts #politiek (translated)

Geert Noels stated that the richest 20% of the Belgian population paid 65% of wage taxes, compared to 7% by the lower half. According to him, those taxes financed social benefits and transfers that went back to the lower incomes. He wrote that the tax burden on the highest incomes could not rise further and noted that they had little time and organization to take to the streets. #belasting #socialeongelijkheid #economischbeleid (translated)