Dutch ambassadors and diplomats are all 'career diplomats' and not former campaign supporters of US presidents. And this is the same for many European countries. And of course the US has in general bigger embassies (and staff) than many countries. So just the maintenance of the official embassy building and residence is a lot higher than for many other countries.
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: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/12/29/why-our-ambassadors-need-to-be-rich/
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: The U.S. ambassadors have to put up their
: own money for a lot of official entertaining
: because the U.S. State Department doesn't
: have the budget. That's why our ambassadors
: usually are very rich. I dug up this story
: so you can get an idea.
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: LUcas,
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: Our country may be small in term qm2 or
: inhabitants, but there is no small
: mindedness around here. Dutch people always
: have an eye for the financial side of things
: and do not like that state money is used for
: private affaires, be it form any state
: employee or members of the RF. I cannot see
: that is actually smal mindlessness, but
: rather common sense and I suppose actually
: very often the law in many country, However,
: in certain countries not enforced. The
: results of such cavalier attitude are pretty
: visible .
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: It's questions like these, uproar over
: nothing, that show the smallmindedness of
: this little country
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: A member of the Dutch government has got
: much
: publicity (even more than he already gets
: these days..) due to the fact that his
: pre-wedding party was held in Paris, in the
: rather posh Dutch Embassy.
: Questions were raised why he would only pay
: for the catering and not for the use of this
: building - which is, after all, funded and
: maintained by tax-payers money.
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: Dutch news-papers now have found out that
: Queen Maxima used the - equally posh - Dutch
: Embassy in Vienna, June 2014, to offer a
: lunch for her brother Juan Zorreguieta, his
: bride Andrea Wolf and all their wedding
: guests.
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: To be continued:
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: http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/26954015/__Broer_Maxima_gratis_in_residentie__.html
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