New polling found Dutch voters have rapidly started losing trust in all levels of government. 15 percent of those surveyed have "lost all confidence" in the government. The loss of trust does not extend to prime minister Mark Rutte.
Dutch ‘Tax Haven’ Status Challenged as Rutte Tips Left in Ballot Bloomberg 3/16/2021 Diederik Baazil
(Bloomberg) In the early hours of the morning on Oct. 5, 2018, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s phone lit up with a text message: “Mark are you awake? I need to talk to you.” It was Paul Polman, then chief executive officer of Unilever Plc.
Polman told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad sometime later that he sent that text because he wanted to tell Rutte about a decision made by the Anglo-Dutch personal care products company before it was made public. Unilever that day announced that it was abandoning plans to consolidate its headquarters in the Netherlands, settling instead for London.
Survey reveals majority support lockdown as riots break out across the Netherlands
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Anti-coronavirus measures protests and riots in cities across the Netherlands would suggest the public has had enough of the lockdown and will not accept the national curfew. But a survey conducted by I&O Research has found that two-thirds of the population fully or largely support the government’s approach to the ongoing crisis.
Third night of riots across the Netherlands
Only the third night of national curfew, Monday marked the third consecutive night of riots across the Netherlands. At least 151 arrests were made as rioters looted shops, lit fires, and threw fireworks and rocks at police officers.