- It is no surprise that Holland should be one of these countries where this
is most noticeable, since politicians there like Geert Wilders must live
under constant police protection, whilst the state itself criminalizes them
for speaking the truth.
For the fifth year in a row, emigration from the Netherlands [in 2008]
exceeded immigration last year, reaching 123,000 emigrants, which
amounts to 7.5 emigrants per 1000 inhabitants. Dutch media has
repeatedly reported this phenomenon because it caught demographic
forecasters by surprise. The last emigration wave occurred fifty years ago,
and at present the Netherlands is the only Western European country
experiencing net emigration, although similar trends are visible in the UK
[...]and to lesser extent in Germany. – “Exit, voice and loyalty in the
Netherlands”, 6 Oct 2008, http://voxeu.org/article/why-are-dutch-leaving-
netherlands/.
“France has always been a country of immigration, but now increasing
numbers of young people, usually from the upper middle classes, are
going abroad” (“Increasing numbers of French young people are
emigrating”, 9 Aug 2013, The Irish Times,
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/increasing-numbers-of-
french-young-people-are-emigrating-1.1488837). At the time of the
Charlie Hebdo massacre, two books topped the best-seller list in France.
One was a novel imagining a future where France is under the control of
Muslims by 2022, whilst the other book was on the suicide of the French
national culture. See “Do France’s Intellectuals Have a Muslim Problem?
Houellebecq, ‘Charlie Hebdo,’ and the French struggle to understand
how 5 million citizens fit into the Fifth Republic”, 8 Jan 2015, Foreign
Policy, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/08/do-frances-intellectuals-have-
a-muslim-problem/ The Professor of the following pessimistic overview
of the situation in France has himself left to live in the USA: Guy
Millière, “France on the Verge of Total Collapse”, Gatestone Institute, 24
Nov 2016, https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9363/france-collapse/. See
also his overview of the situation in Germany: “The Suicide of
G e r m a n y ” , Gatestone Institute, 26 Dec 2016,
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