The Weekly Forum - 13 November 2025
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They never give up, do they? The EU leadership, at both national and EU level, has racked up 10 trillion euros of debt since the euro was created a quarter of a century ago. This inexorable rise is in spite of the fact that the rules of the Maastricht treaty were supposed to make the single currency a model of price stability and fiscal prudence. And so what does the EU propose to do now? Raise even more debt, of course! This time, though, they want the whole of the EU to raise it by a further trillion a year (Mario Draghi proposed ‘at least 750 billion € a year’) by means of fully mutualised debt. (The existing EU-level debt issuances are limited in time and by sector, but the principle is the same.) Only FVD sees the economic, political and constitutional dangers of this – the hardworking Northern European ants will, as usual, have to pay for the spendthrift Southern European cicadas. Mutualised debt is nothing but socialism on an international scale and is conjugated as follows: I overspend, you pay for my debts, we all suffer.
And what is there to show for this colossal mortgaging of future generations? We are all familiar with the Blairite trick of calling government spending ‘investment’ but there has not been investment in anything. Money has gushed out on mass immigration, climate madness, overregulation and welfare dependency without there being anything to show for it. Where are the great infrastructure projects of the post-war decades? There aren’t any. Only FVD has the vision to propose real investment in really ambitious projects which will actually help, not impoverish, future generations. FVD’s parliamentary chairman, Lidewij de Vos, laid out some of these in a letter to the parliamentarian tasked with putting out feelers to all parties with a view to forming a government. As Lidewij writes, there have been 35 years of extreme political stability in the Netherlands – only 5 prime ministers since 1982, as opposed to 11 in Britain and 22 in France – and this has just led to Brezhnevian drift. Time for a real change.
Read Lidewij’s open letter here
Maybe this special vision of FVD is due to the fact that it sees beyond politics. Hans van de Breevaart, a researcher at FVD’s Renaissance Institute, is a devout Christian, as are many FVDers. So why is he associated with FVD instead of with the overtly Christian parties in the Netherlands, of which there are at least three? Hans explains that FVD’s world view, shared by believers and non-believers, Christians and non-Christians, is closer to true Christian humility than anything proposed by the officially Christian parties.
Read Hans van de Breevaart’s article here
We took a break from politics this week on The Forum to discuss food. Zoe Harcombe has been fighting the ‘anti-fat’ narrative for years now: she does so as a PhD in nutritional science and as a statistician. Guess what? It’s just like climate ‘science’ – the official anti-meat and anti-fat narrative is hogwash cooked up to serve a pre-prepared pre-processed narrative. Yeuch!