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: But the US system cannot be compared.
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: 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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