DNB’s image in the Dutch press So the Bank has an opinion about you, but we are also curious about your opinion of us. To communicate well, it is important to know how our message comes across. Another factor is that the role of the Nederlandsche Bank has been changed by EMU.
We made no serious attempt to help the farming sector by reducing the protection given to inefficient sectors. We made no serious attempt to tailor our social welfare system to the cloth available. Indeed, in 1975 we introduced a Domestic Purposes Benefit which would, over 20 years, grow to involve a fiscal cost almost as big as the Unemployment Benefit.