Matt Steinglass

Matt Steinglass

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FT Netherlands correspondent. Tweets & RTs dictated by my cat Loesje and thus do not reflect views of my employers or other humans.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica
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Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow" is great, but I have Doobie Bros "What a Fool Believes" stuck in head for 2 days now
Hans de Geus in Volkskrant: "like it or not, we're in the same boat. Spanish banks are our banks."
Blog, or jog? The Thursday 5 pm dilemma.
Wilders calls no-confidence motion against NL FinMin @JCdeJager. 24 for, 123 against. Not sure how smart that was, De Jager is popular.
Dutch parliament approves ESM 100 to 47, but parties "against" would have a lot more than 47 seats if elections held today
Speaking of discipline, JC De Jager looks like he's lost a lot of weight. Always impressive to see people do that. Gotta go running...
NL-German bloc would look pretty different if Germany gets an SDP-Green-Pirate coalition.
RT @OpenEurope: The German Pirate Party at 13% in new opinion poll, CDU at 31%, SDP 27%, Greens 13%, Linke and FDP at 6%
RT @joophazenberg: Half mijloen mensen werkloos. Volgens mij ligt dat cijfer veel hoger omdat freelancers zonder werk niet worden meegeteld.
So Wilders will stay in the news as the leading anti-EU voice. Watch for bump in the polls next week.
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