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um so yeah uh one on one that they're promising a lot to both the left-wing opposition parties and the right-wing opposition parties but they're still making uh uh making concessions in in those areas so it was you you described this as a knipper lift budget and i think that is that is that is just the right term for it because that doesn't seem to be really a a a solid strategy here no it's

on and off the whole time yeah one minute the the opposite parties say celebrating saying yes we've got a deal and then they look at the small print and say hang on a second no there's stuff in here that we just can't uh agree with such as for example some of the um uh The reforms on the Box 2 and the Box 3, I think the parties like Yayin and Twentech were very concerned that they would affect people who had small or modest savings, particularly hard, because suddenly they want to bring them down the threshold, I think, for the level at which you start to pay tax on those savings is going to be much lower.

So then suddenly people who have, I think, roundabout... around about 100,000 euros of savings built up as a couple suddenly find that the tax applies to them for the first time.

Rather than to the big earners, the bigger earners, as the left-wing parties had hoped to achieve.

In a statement, Saar said, "Any country that acts in a hostile and unilateral manner against Israel will lose influence and relevance in the region." We spoke with Sander Van Hoorn.

He's the chief international correspondent for the Dutch outlet NOS.

He says the Dutch embassy in the West Bank is small, with just eight diplomats, but the Israeli response is far-reaching.

It's basically making the work of, uh, diplomats, Dutch diplomats in the occupied West Bank impossible or virtually impossible.

Yeah, it, it, it, it, yeah, it never fails, does it? Yeah.

[lips smack] At the NPO's request, NOS will provide the previews, the coverage, uh, of the semifinals and the finale, and the accompanying commentary, uh, and that fits with its statutory duty to report on major national and international events, the NPO said in a press release.

The decision to organize the Dutch participation in this way follows AVROTROS' announcement last month that it would withdraw as the broadcasters responsible for the country's Eurovision entry.

AVROTROS s- yeah, th- that's, uh, that's a tradition, right? I think they've been responsible for the past, uh, 20 Dutch entries.

Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right.

That's absolutely true.

Um, [lips smack] and, uh, it was broadcasted by the NOS.

Yeah, we have a, a bunch of public broadcasters.

NPO is the Dutch umbrella organisation.

NOS is the broadcaster.

And not only that, we've had the confirmation that the Netherlands' neighbours, Belgium, their broadcaster VRT, takes it in turns with the other broadcaster over there, RTBF, to bring Eurovision to Belgian audiences.

VRT will be in Borgas, in Bulgaria.

But if you can just kind of explain this.

So we've got NPO, which is the sort of what umbrella term, umbrella organisation.

And NOS is the broadcaster that's going to be broadcasting the show, right? Yes.

So the Dutch broadcasting system is quite convoluted.

And the answer to when it ended is complicated.

Because as of today, September 9th, the Netherlands still runs NOS teletext.

It's still on the air.

So the question has a false premise baked in, and I think that's where we should start.

The BBC shut Ceefax down in 2012, right at the end of the digital switchover.

It was the last of the big UK services to go.

And yet the Netherlands kept NOS Teletext running.

Still running.