>Gross domestic product in the Netherlands fell by 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter. The contraction took place despite 0.3 percent GDP growth in the European Union as a whole.
Why is the EU single market unable to help NL ? Solidarity and all that ?
NL is the EUs cashcow. Just wait until they figure out how much money is in the retirement funds. It wouldn’t be solidarity if all that wasn’t shared with the rest of the EU.
Shouldn’t be too surprising given that we pretty much stopped our natural gas extraction and reduced/stopped processing Russian oil.
0,7%?
Rookie numbers! Hungarian economy shrank by 1,1% in this quarter. This is the 3rd quarter in a row when hungary’s economy is shrinking so it is in technical recession.
So don’t be sad Holland. You’ll be fine.
If only there had been some way to predict this. #rejoin
The Spanish troika flying to Netherlands
It’s really playing with statistics. Dutch economy grew over the European average last years. This is just the normalisation of the average.
Damn Nexit. They should never have Nexited.
Good, eternal economic growth is unsustainable anyway
Surely the BBB will lose the next election and Netherlands will not take a sharp turn to the right so sharp you can cut yourself on all the edge in account of these news.
While the “Beyond Growth” conference is happening, lol.
But yeah, guys : despite the obvious need to stop the “growth of GDP by all means”, let us keep on heading there; let’s pretend we’ll make “green growth”.
Because we will, for sure, have enough energy when the copper mines or similar will be down to 0.001% concentration ! We’ll have found fusion by then and we’ll keep on growing; no problem !
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They should never have left the EU.
>Gross domestic product in the Netherlands fell by 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter. The contraction took place despite 0.3 percent GDP growth in the European Union as a whole.
Why is the EU single market unable to help NL ? Solidarity and all that ?
NL is the EUs cashcow. Just wait until they figure out how much money is in the retirement funds. It wouldn’t be solidarity if all that wasn’t shared with the rest of the EU.
Shouldn’t be too surprising given that we pretty much stopped our natural gas extraction and reduced/stopped processing Russian oil.
0,7%?
Rookie numbers! Hungarian economy shrank by 1,1% in this quarter. This is the 3rd quarter in a row when hungary’s economy is shrinking so it is in technical recession.
So don’t be sad Holland. You’ll be fine.
If only there had been some way to predict this. #rejoin
The Spanish troika flying to Netherlands
It’s really playing with statistics. Dutch economy grew over the European average last years. This is just the normalisation of the average.
Damn Nexit. They should never have Nexited.
Good, eternal economic growth is unsustainable anyway
Surely the BBB will lose the next election and Netherlands will not take a sharp turn to the right so sharp you can cut yourself on all the edge in account of these news.
While the “Beyond Growth” conference is happening, lol.
But yeah, guys : despite the obvious need to stop the “growth of GDP by all means”, let us keep on heading there; let’s pretend we’ll make “green growth”.
Because we will, for sure, have enough energy when the copper mines or similar will be down to 0.001% concentration ! We’ll have found fusion by then and we’ll keep on growing; no problem !