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May 29, 2019

The Netherlands: No buses, few trains: public transport strike causes long jams - DutchNews.nl

A strike by public
transport workers on Tuesday has led to long traffic jams as commuters
turn to cars and taxis instead to get to work.

By 8 am there were 520 kilometres of slow-moving vehicles on the Dutch
roads, and traffic had ground to halt around Alkmaar and Rotterdam,
motoring organisation ANWB said.

Hashtags such as #meerijden and #liftaangeboden have become popular as
people seek to share rides. And in Amsterdam officials have opened the
IJ tunnel to bikes and mopeds, because there are no ferries over the IJ.

Read more at DutchNews.nl:
A strike by public
transport workers on Tuesday has led to long traffic jams as commuters
turn to cars and taxis instead to get to work.

By 8 am there were 520 kilometres of slow-moving vehicles on the Dutch
roads, and traffic had ground to halt around Alkmaar and Rotterdam,
motoring organisation ANWB said.

Hashtags such as #meerijden and #liftaangeboden have become popular as
people seek to share rides. And in Amsterdam officials have opened the
IJ tunnel to bikes and mopeds, because there are no ferries over the IJ.

Read more at DutchNews.nl:
A strike by public transport workers on Tuesday has led to long traffic jams as commuters turn to cars and taxis instead to get to work.

By 8 am there were 520 kilometres of slow-moving vehicles on the Dutch roads, and traffic had ground to halt around Alkmaar and Rotterdam, motoring organisation ANWB said.

Hashtags such as #meerijden and #liftaangeboden have become popular as people seek to share rides. And in Amsterdam officials have opened the IJ tunnel to bikes and mopeds, because there are no ferries over the IJ.

Read more at: No buses, few trains: public transport strike causes long jams - DutchNews.nl

May 28, 2019

The Netherlands: Nationalists and populists issues lose favorability in the Netherlands

There was faltering support for the Netherlands to withdraw from the European Union, according to a survey of voters and non-voters in the Netherlands during the 2019European Parliamentary elections. 

The poll, conducted by Ipsos for broadcaster NOS, also showed several nationalist issues falling out of favor with the Dutch public. Just 15 percent of people agreed with a mandate saying the Netherlands should leave the EU. That is down from 24 percent of respondents five years ago. About 65 percent disagreed with the sentiment, with the rest saying they either did not know or did not care. 

Interestingly, about 60 percent of voters said the Netherlands is better as part of the European Union, while fewer than 40 percent of non-voters said the same. Still, about 69 percent want to see the EU grow even stronger because of international tensions, while only 7 percent disagreed.

May 25, 2019

Outer Space: In Canada Western University astronomers seeking out potentially dangerous space rocks to humans in nearby swarm of space rocks to cross paths with earth in June

Canadian Western University astronomers seeking potentially dangerous space rocks in nearby 'swarm'

Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/taurid-meteor-swarm-1.5147581

May 24, 2019

Britain: As Theresa May quits, Britain is now in total crises mode and falling apart at the seams

Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. in Downing Street.

May said it had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s second female prime minister. Her voice breaking, she said she would leave “with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.

Note EU-Digest It is high time for Britain, that a politician with some common sense and courage stands up and acknowledges that when the people voted for Brexit, with a very small majority, the British voters were ill informed, and that there should be a second referendum. If not, the country could be looking ahead at a very grim future.

EU Parliamentary elections: Day one of voting is over as polls close in the Netherlands and Britain

Day one of voting is over as polls close in the Netherlands and UK

Exit Polls show Dutch Labor Party the big winner in the elections as Ultra-Right-wing populists  of the Baudet and Wilders groupings did not do as well as expected  

Read more at:
https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/23/britain-and-netherlands-kick-off-eu-elections-votes