A recent headline by Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) which stated "Fuss in Germany about proposal to change English language courses in primary schools to Turkish". is misleading, especially if you just read the headline and not the whole story.
If you take the time to read the whole story - however - you quickly realize the heading is misleading.
This change of language from English to Turkish will in reality never happen in Germany or in any other country in the EU.
These kinds of headlines, however, are obviously "grist to the mill" for the nationalist, anti-immigration, populist parties in the Netherlands and Europe, which are mainly supported by people, who do not want to look any further "than their noses are long", to see the dangers of populism.
This regardless of the fact that there are plenty of examples of populist inspired and created political chaotical disasters in the world, including the emergence of a Trump in America, Orban in Hungary , Giuseppe Conte in Italy, and the Brexit drama, the supporters of the populist movement still have their head in the sand.
As the European parliamentary elections this coming May are quickly approaching, it is good to remember that famous saying "A warned person counts for two".
It is high time, that we the people of the EU stop this so-called "populist movement", before they destruct our future, and that we take our purpose of being a democratic counter-balance to the many evil forces surrounding us, more seriously
For the original AD newspaper report in Dutch click on this link Ophef in Duitsland over voorstel om Engels op basisschool te vervangen door Turks | Buitenland | AD.nl
If you take the time to read the whole story - however - you quickly realize the heading is misleading.
This change of language from English to Turkish will in reality never happen in Germany or in any other country in the EU.
These kinds of headlines, however, are obviously "grist to the mill" for the nationalist, anti-immigration, populist parties in the Netherlands and Europe, which are mainly supported by people, who do not want to look any further "than their noses are long", to see the dangers of populism.
This regardless of the fact that there are plenty of examples of populist inspired and created political chaotical disasters in the world, including the emergence of a Trump in America, Orban in Hungary , Giuseppe Conte in Italy, and the Brexit drama, the supporters of the populist movement still have their head in the sand.
As the European parliamentary elections this coming May are quickly approaching, it is good to remember that famous saying "A warned person counts for two".
It is high time, that we the people of the EU stop this so-called "populist movement", before they destruct our future, and that we take our purpose of being a democratic counter-balance to the many evil forces surrounding us, more seriously
For the original AD newspaper report in Dutch click on this link Ophef in Duitsland over voorstel om Engels op basisschool te vervangen door Turks | Buitenland | AD.nl
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