While in the Swiss Davos the global elite gathered to discuss the Great Issues of today,

At the Amsterdam Zuidas, at the Vrije Universiteit, there was also an unmissable accumulation of power and influence. There, Wouter Bos and Jan Peter Balkenende shared the stage for the first time in years, old EU President Herman van Rompuy made his appearance, just like Carla Moonen, president of the health and welfare pension fund, with almost 200 billion euros in cash making it the second largest in the country. Through a video, Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra called on the present bankers, entrepreneurs and politicians to transcend their various responsibilities and tasks and to focus on their shared responsibility for the well-being and resilience of society as a whole.

... on: The Rhineland-Palatinate Economic Forum, 1 February 2018