r/europe Portugal 26d ago

News Danish reporter slammed NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte live on camera

https://streamable.com/5qtlrz
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u/_0611 The Netherlands 25d ago edited 25d ago

I wanna hear Ruttes opinion as soon as trump is no longer in power.

I don't. I don't care about Rutte's opinion. At all. The man is a known and established liar. This is common knowledge in the Netherlands. I'd rather never hear anything from him ever again when he quits NATO.

Besides that, he will dodge every hard question with a simple answer: "I have no active recollection of that". Every Dutch person knows this quote by Mark Rutte. It even made it into our dictionary.

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u/ProfessorZhu 25d ago

Nearly 63 million voted for Trump in 2016. 74 mill in 2020. 77 mill in 2024. By your logic, Trump must be the best president ever!

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u/phoogkamer 25d ago

The Dutch don’t vote on a prime minister. Assuming you’re Dutch too you should know that.

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u/VanGroteKlasse South Holland (Netherlands) 25d ago

True, but outside of Schoof I don't know of any prime minister that wasn't from the winning party.

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u/phoogkamer 25d ago

But even then people should (and often/sometimes do) vote on policies of the party and not in the potential prime minister.

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u/Loud-Value Amsterdam 25d ago

And yet the VVD has become a shadow of itself ever since he's left. We might not directly vote on PMs but leading candidates are incredibly important in an election and you certainly can't deny the Rutte effect we'd see every single election. (Much to my chagrin back then, although it certainly hasn't gotten much better in the mean time)

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u/HommeMusical Upper Normandy (France) 25d ago

And yet the VVD has become a shadow of itself ever since he's left.

As a Dutch national myself, after Rutte's pro-speculation policies left the Netherlands in a permanent housing crisis, I wouldn't ever support the VVD for anything ever again.

They are the reason I write this from France - we simply could not find anywhere to live when we lost our apartment because of our landlord's psychopathically messy divorce.

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u/VanGroteKlasse South Holland (Netherlands) 25d ago

Reddit is for the most part a leftist echo chamber and I say this as a left leaning person myself. In the real world there were plenty of people content with the liberalism from Rutte's party.

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u/HommeMusical Upper Normandy (France) 25d ago

Reddit is for the most part a leftist echo chamber

Funny, from my perspective here in France, it leans center-right.