NEWS - DUTCH MINISTER

But did he inhale?

Health Minister Hans Hoogervorst has admitted to smoking an occasional joint as a student, but says he could not do it anymore because it is not to be combined with work. ‘A puff now and then isn’t dangerous,’ he said at the launch of a campaign warning teenagers of the risks.

Non fa una grinza!

NEWS - DUTCH ARE HAPPY... ! ma de chè!

Happy Hollanders
Eighty-three percent of the Dutch are happy, making them the happiest
nation in Europe, according to an EU survey of 30,000 people in all member states. The survey concluded that the Turks seem to be the least happy.

sorridi... sei in Olanda! a meno che l'intervista si teneva fuori dai coffee shops o nel quartierino a luci rosse sotto casa! SPQO (sono pazzi questi olandesi)

NEWS - MULTE X CHI BIGIA... CON PAPA'!

Non so se piangere o ridere:

Parents fined for extra holidays

Wednesday 06 December 2006

Truant officers handed out 4280 fines to parents whose children were not at school when they should be last year, the Telegraaf reports this morning. The figure is a slight decrease on the 2003-2004 school year figures, but 35% up on the previous year.

Many of the fines were given to parents who took their children off school for extra holidays. Some 75% of the so-called luxury absentees were primary school children.