If you aren't Dutch or Flemish you probably never heard of Geenstijl, there is a cordon sanitaire in quality newspapers and the state-tv, they just ignore it.
But this is a tour de force, they managed to get almost half a milion signs for a referendum about the position of the government about the democratic deficit of the EU. That doesn't sound like much but most people didn't even know about it simply because they read quality-newspapers and watch state-tv it's A LOT. The goverment now has to hold the referendum, only 300.000 are required, about half a million is what we (not me) got. Big high-five to the UK in advance.
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