Wij zijn een land dat altijd graag voorop loopt. Dat zullen we dan ook binnenkort weer gaan demonstreren.

Want volgens de Wall Street Journal is Nederland het land dat ervoor gaat zorgen dat de Euro voorgoed wordt opgeblazen.

Consumer debt in the Netherlands has hit 250% of available income, one of the highest levels in the world. In Spain, by comparison, it has never gone above 125%

Holland has always been one of the most prosperous and stable nations with Europe — and one of the most pro-EU. It was a founding member of the union, and it was among the most enthusiastic supporters of the launch of the single currency. With a rich, export-oriented economy, and plenty of successful multinational companies, it had much to gain, one would suppose, from the creation of the single economy that was meant to come into being once the euro was successfully launched.

But instead it has started to play out a depressingly familiar script. It is blowing up in exactly the same way that Ireland, Greece and Portugal did — except on a slightly longer fuse.

Holland will be the core country that goes bust first — and that will be a crisis too far for the euro. 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stodgy-netherlands-is-nation-thatll-blow-up-euro-2013-05-08?mod=wsj_share_tweet