10 June 2010 - One of the first things I did on return in the City of Buzz was going online to check the results of the Dutch parliamentary elections. It is not a really good result, as the Dutch made a swing to the right, and the new right wing anti-immigrant PVV party became the third political party in the country. That is bad news. It is now up to Queen Beatrix to decide who will be asked to form the new Government, but it is to be expected that the liberal VVD will get the lead, as they are the biggest party in the country. What is also interesting about these elections is that the era of the baby-boomers has almost come to an end. Most emerging political leaders are born in the 1960s and stood for a long time in the shadow of the baby-boomers. A similar thing happened a few weeks ago in the UK (Cameron, Clegg) and it is expected that we will soon see a new generation of pragmatic, less dogmatic leaders take over world affairs. That is good news. My generation is now in the lead - the times they are changing.
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