This is the day on which the cabinet makes public it's plan and goals for the coming year. It's always on the 3rd Tuesday of September when the Dutch Queen speeches before the ministers and members of Parliament about the mayor issues in The Netherlands.
After that the Minister of Financial Affairs will present the "millioenennota". That is the statement on the budget for the different departments meaning how much money will be spend on different affairs.
Police and anti terror forces (my country is just doing what most countries are supposingly are doing) will have more to spend and there won't be cuts on education.
In the cabinetplans the elderly and people who are going to lose their jobs sacrifice the most.
Of course there will be a meeting in Parliament about these plans. But as the cabinet has a majority, it's most likely the plans won't be altered much.
But a vast majority is against the plans which have been leaked a week before presentation. So the demonstration against the plans should be enormous.
The last demonstration was in Amsterdam in 1982. Then we demonstrated against the nuclear power missiles as a defense against the Russian and Eastern European threat. At that time USA was head of the world and called the demo a symptom of the Dutch disease. I was very young but I'm influenced by the Dd., using my democratic rights.
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