Leading Dutch Financial Newspaper: “Is the European energy policy bankrupt?”

Notrickszone.com is so valuable in that it shares purely German news with the whole world. Today with this announcement in Financieel Dagblad I feel that also the whole world should know. I heard about the new theme in a series of Energy Debates – “Is the European energy policy bankrupt?” – from an advertisement on BNR radio the sole Dutch business radio station. Since this station broadcasts a constant drizzle of sustainable chitchat one could easily conclude that the real question is “Is The Netherlands heading for bankruptcy?”. But us Dutch people are famous for our preacher-trader dichotomy where despite our constant moralizing in the end the trader always wins. We were the only nation that had a tradepost in Japan since the Japanese required Europeans to piss on a cross first. The Portuguese couldn’t do that but we didn’t mind.

So are we the first nation now to also piss on the sustainable cross? Here the Google translatation of the article with the announcement of the debate. The article ends with the usual tributes to the noble goals of shutting down our stable energy supply, but the fact that in this series of debates with earlier themes such as….