The Netherlands is the only country that does not yet have a corona recovery plan
Delivered Friday as the penultimate of its plans in the European Commission to recover from the impact corona on that country’s economy. Europe has no less than 700 billion euros ready for this. We now have to wait for the last applicant: the Netherlands.
Our country is entitled to a sloppy six billion euros in covid support. That’s about twice the amount currently earmarked for the mitigation measures to boost exploding energy prices. So no cat litter. Not that the money will soon be gone, but the lack of any urgency in the application is – unsellable.
The Netherlands has not yet submitted a corona recovery plan, because the country is still governed by a caretaker cabinet. The incumbents want to leave the division of the European poet to their successors. That’s neat, but neat does wear for a very, very long time now. Sunday 17 October it will be exactly seven months ago that the Netherlands was allowed to choose who should be successors. Nobody wanted to know about the postponement of those elections at the highest point of the third wave of contamination. after all, the problems that the new team had to tackle were too great. It was urgent to work on a speedy recovery.
In no time this formation has moved to the second place on the list of longest formations ever. Another big week and Rutte IV will pass Rutte III, for which time was already taken with 225 days. The sense of urgency in the cabinet that is still in office is mainly expressed in ministers who are already taking the plunge to a position of elders. After all, this is now almost unimpeded.
This lap carousel offers the only guarantee that a new, fresh team will soon get to work. After seven months of torture, the same people are now sitting around the table where we have to do it until the elections. In order to continue to believe in new leadership, you have to be very positive in life.