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[martinuzz]

The Dutch government wrote a notice to the parliament today, in which they agree and promise to give priority treatment to any official motion by the parliament to get rid of the law against insulting foreign heads of state.

[Dorsidwarf]

Brevik just won part of his Human Rights Trial

[smjjames]

The Dutch government wrote a notice to the parliament today, in which they agree and promise to give priority treatment to any official motion by the parliament to get rid of the law against insulting foreign heads of state.

Lol

I suppose they realized 'Lets get rid of this hot potato ASAFP'. Not to mention being a bit of a middle finger to the likes of Erdogan.

You Dutch should insult the Queen of England next!

Okay I'll stop..... lol

[martinuzz]

I'm sure the British don't need any Dutch help in coming up with creative ways to insult the Queen.
God shave the queen!

(although I sometimes wish, being an anti royalist, but still, that our previous queen would have shown some of the same perseverance and stubborn-ness as the old lady in the UK does, and not have given up the throne for a rather early retirement, to her son, who publicly was known as "Prins Pils" for having a habit of leading the student's drinking life. Whenever I see our new king making a public appearance, I can't help but think "darn, this new king really isn't the brightest light in the city", in contrast to his mother, who was sharp minded and witty. I fear he kinda went from Prins Pils to King Korsakov. I think I can understand our old queen though. She lost her second eldest son to an avalanche, and that clearly hit her hard. She secceeded not too long after that)

EDIT: in other news, the international research group Reporters Sans Frontiers (reporters without borders), which investigates press freedom worldwide, has posted it's results for 2015. The Netherlands get second place, bested only by Finland, as country with the most freedom of press. We are reprimanded though, because reporters are not allowed to photograph members of parliament at their work, without prior appointment.
https://rsf.org/en/ranking

The worst freedom of press is to be found in Eritrea, at the 180th place. Turkey also scores badly, and ends up in the lower regions at the 151th place.
Within the EU, the biggest shift compared to last year is for Poland, which went from 18th place down to 47th. This has much to do with the new law which allows the minister of Finance to hire and fire directors for the public broadcast channels.

[Shadowlord]

I KEEP CLICKING NEW POST BUT THERE IS NO NEW POST!

[ChairmanPoo]

She lost her second eldest son to an avalanche, and that clearly hit her hard. She secceeded not too long after that)

She became an independent country?

[smjjames]

If Trump is any indication, seems like he would make the score drop if he is President.

About the only complaints they seem to have for the US is lack of whistleblower protection, not having a federal 'shield law', and cyber-surveillance (NSA and all that).

And guess who is slightly less worse than Eritrea? NK.... Funny how someone manages to be worse than NK.

[SirQuiamus]

The Netherlands get second place, bested only by Finland, as country with the most freedom of press.

That's funny as shit, considering that practically all Finnish newspapers are staffed by right-wing hacks exercising their hard-earned freedom to spout vapid propaganda in favour of the government's idiotic austerity measures. Not that it makes Finland worse than the rest of the world – the current global standards are apparently low enough to allow any old turd to float to the top.

[martinuzz]

She lost her second eldest son to an avalanche, and that clearly hit her hard. She secceeded not too long after that)

She became an independent country?

I thought secession (crap double c, no double c, I guess it's single c and I goofed the first time) also to be the verb used when a monarch passes on the throne to the next in line. Enlighten me with the correct verb if I am royally wrong there please.

[martinuzz]

Abdication.

Isn't an abdication forced upon the monarch?

[Sheb]

Abdicate?

[Shadowlord]

Abdication is correct. Succession is succeeding the former monarch, that is, it's what the successor does. I mean... well, you have examples of me using it and its variants in two sentences, that should be good.

[martinuzz]

okay thanks that's what got me confused I guess

[martinuzz]

The Turkish consulate has called upon the Turkish people living in the Netherlands to "report any insults to the Turkish state, the Turkish people or the Turkish president directly to the consulate", to a special telephone number installed for the matter.

Our Dutch government and parliament are not amused, and have called for a priority parliament meeting to be scheduled about it. (We Dutch kinda don't take lightly to citizens ratting on citizens ever since we have the trauma of world war 2, were a lot of Dutch people ratted out Jews and members of the resistance to the German occupants. We killed a lot of them by hanging and shaved their girlfriends' and wives' heads bald once we were liberated) The outcome will probably be that Erdogan will be reprimanded about messing with another nation's internal affairs, and get a lesson in freedom of expression from our embassador.

Besides, insulting the Turkish president is nothing new here. It even happened in parliament in 2011, when member of parliament for the PVV, Raymond the Roon, said during a parliament session about Erdogan that "once again the islamic monkey has come out of the sleeve. This time he resides in Istanbul and is called Erdogan".

[Morrigi]

In Essen, Germany, two Salafists have been arrested after a bomb attack on a Sikh temple.

http://www.thelocal.de/20160421/sikh-temple-bomb-attack-salafists-arrested-police