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morning-run · the-breakfast-grille · 3 Jun 2011 · 26 mins listen
Netherlands Ambassador Paul Bekkers discusses:
- Trade between Malaysia and the Netherlands;
- Reasons for Malaysia's trade surplus with Netherlands;
- Netherlands' exports to Malaysia - main types of goods and services;
- Cucumbers and the killer E.Coli;
- Dutch emphasis on sustainability;
- Flooding and Rotterdam;
- Kinds and types of government initiatives to go Green;
- Palm oil and Malaysia's efforts to drive sustainability in the industry;
- The RSPO;
- Its system of government that has seen the Netherlands become the 16th largest economy in the world, and 7th in GDP (nominal) per capita;
- The Netherlands' obstructionist path to repair of the EU and in particular, the mending of peripheral European nations;
- Whether the Netherlands feel it is well able to do without the distractions of a European Union;
- Islamisation and the Freedom party of populist Geert Wilders;
- Ratko Mladic and whether the Netherlands has made peace with its involement with the war crimes criminal.
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