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“After five years, the crisis is beginning to bite in the Netherlands,” remarks NRC Handelsblad, which reports on the latest figures from Statistics Netherlands. Noting that unemployment has risen from a pre-downturn level of 4 per cent to 8.5 per cent, the daily argues that —
… when you look at today’s Netherlands, you see a different country to the one you saw in 2007, when the stock market was riding high and property prices were soaring. You see more old cars, more for-sale signs outside houses, more discount supermarkets, fewer babies and more adults who live at home with their parents.
NRC Handelsblad also notes that “more than twice as many people are using food banks, assistance to those in debt has increased by 80 per cent, and that the number of suicides has shot up.”
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