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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)

Dolphins are intelligent animals that need to be continuously challenged and have a natural need to dive deep and swim large distances. Therefore, Erkens announces a breeding ban, which he believes will come into effect in two years. #Dolfijnen #Dierenwelzijn #Fokverbod (translated)

"I grew up with a strong sense of injustice all around me," she said in December 2003 in an interview with the Volkskrant in Tanzania, her then-base as president of the Rwandan tribunal. "As a child of 4, I was told that I could not go to the beach to swim. I felt my parents' fear, saw how they were treated by the whites. I noticed that at school we received old books and desks, the cast-offs from the white schools." #NaviPillay #Mensenrechten #Apartheid (translated)

"When I came across people who did not have the luck to recover, I always felt guilty. Had I not swum enough?" "Survivor's guilt" was always the basis for his swimming journeys, says Van der Weijden, a feeling of guilt that he survived cancer while many others did not. #MaartenvanderWeijden #Zwemmen #Kankeronderzoek (translated)

Dit gaat niet om alleen vrouwenzwemmen. Dit gaat om vrouwenzwemmen voor moslimvrouwen die anders van hun man niet mogen zwemmen tussen andere mannen. Voor vrouwen dus die worden onderdrukt door hun eigen mannencultuur. https://t.co/Q1lxCEZTBL #Vrouwenrechten #Zwemmen #Gendergelijkheid

‘Het voelde bijna als persoonlijk falen dat ik mijn vriend niet heb kunnen redden. Dat als ik nóg verder had gezwommen, er beter onderzoek was geweest en hij nog leefde. Maar rationeel gezien slaat dat natuurlijk nergens op. Toen merkte ik dat de overleversschuld me in de weg zat, obsessief was. Ik besloot om nog één laatste tocht te zwemmen, om het af te sluiten.’

Zwemmer Léon Marchand, een van de grootste sporthelden van Frankrijk, moet op het EK in Parijs enkele afstanden missen vanwege een blessure, maar zijn populariteit blijft onverminderd groot nu hij wordt gesteund door andere Franse iconen en als ambassadeur van Louis Vuitton fungeert. #EKzwemmen #LéonMarchand #zwemmen