THE HAGUE - Only one Member of Parliament has drawn attention to the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom in the debate on the spring memorandum today.
“Under the continuing neoliberal rule of the Rutte cabinets, poverty in our Kingdom is increasing alarmingly every day. Due to high inflation, the war, the energy crisis, low wages, flexible contracts, the shortage of affordable housing, the consequences of covid, long covid, the inhumane situations in reception centers such as Ter Apel, all at the same time. But there is much more at stake, because the climate crisis that we so often discuss here also has disastrous consequences for Bonaire, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Statia or Saba, for example. In the meantime, the chance that we can limit the damage is shrinking by the day. We are also — even though the cabinet thinks otherwise — in the midst of a devastating pandemic, with all the consequences that this entails," says Sylvana Simons of the BIJ1 faction in the Dutch Parliament.
In the answer, Prime Minister Rutte did not comment on the statements about the islands.