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Scrap public holidays

An estimated 3.5 million people living in the Netherlands will end their holidays today. Thanks to the "convenient timing" of public holidays this year, many people have been off work for the past two weeks, the Dutch daily De Volkskrant reports. "In conjunction with the school holidays this means that this year not only in the summer, but also in the spring, the Netherlands has been paralysed for an extended period of time. If the Christmas public holidays are also conveniently timed, the whole thing will be repeated in the winter. ... The question is whether the interests of the leisure industry and the furniture branch are more important than the loss in production for the economy as a whole and the inefficient use of public facilities and infrastructure. Easter, Whitsun, and even Christmas have lost much of their original meaning through the process of secularisation. Those who want to celebrate these days for religious reasons can naturally continue to do so on the Sunday in question. The phenomenon of a second Easter, Whitsun and Christmas day is unknown in many countries. ... These are good reasons to put these days to discussion and perhaps exchange them for the holidays of other religions, for example."

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