Edit: I should probably start by saying that this is somewhat off-topic.
In the Netherlands we tend to rank our parties along left-right and progressive-conservative axes separately. Conservative-left gets you Christians who care about the poor. In other countries there’s also the “I want the government to support our workers”, “I want to go back to Soviet times” and “I’m leftist but LGBTQ is wrong” types.
The English disease of putting spaces in a compound word might be worse… it’s not even consistent. It’ll be a new example of “Dutch grammar is 50% special cases.”
Honestly no, never, and that feels more like a problem of not having proper cycling paths. Nobody wants to cycle on the sidewalk.
The way I see it, shawarma comes in strips and kebab in flakes
Frisia! It’s a province of the Netherlands and I think their language is the closest one to English
Netherlands, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia got added really late
Funny how Norway is there even though it’s not even in the EU
Oh no, of course not. Obviously there’s a second party member. I’ve never seen both members in the same room together though. (the second member isn’t a person, it’s a foundation founded by Geert Wilders)
ï, ö, ü, ä as well (as a diaeresis, not an umlaut)
At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source
Nikki de Jager (who was supposed to be the spokesperson) said on TV that it didn’t feel right to hand out points. The Dutch broadcaster then told the EBU to just figure it out themselves.
Käärijä (Finland) also stepped down but got replaced, and Alessandra (Norway) already stepped down earlier because of Isreal.
They got crowned by the Witch!
Dutch Public Vote as well
Swisssweep
Highlights from the Dutch broadcast (paraphrased):
I think it’s very typical how even though Nemo’s song is about being non-binary, there’s tv-presenters are talking about “him” and “that boy”
Well, if true that’s all the artists I was interested in (and I’d fully support it)
Extra fun is how many sources originally talked about a physical confrontation
From what I heard Joost was getting a bunch of political questions right before that without the host ever saying “you don’t have to answer that”, and that’s where his reaction came from
Edit: source on Dutch Twitter
Oh I’d never call myself a conservative, and most conservative parties here are right-wing as well.