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The Netherlands looks like the richest and most stable country in Europe today. We all moved here for a reason…However, reality looks very different: Dutch households carry nearly double the EU’s average debt. House prices keep climbing. A trillion euros in pension assets is mid-transition to a new system, one deadline at a time. And on interest rates, the country is just one vote in Frankfurt on a policy built for an economy that isn’t theirs.On October 9th, we sit down on the Room for Discussion couches with President of the De Nederlandsche Bank, Olaf Sleijpen, in the hopes of getting to know whether the DNB can actually change anything.
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