This story looks very plausible to me. Dutch people's favorite pasttime is to smugly tell foreigners — especially non-euros — that the Netherlands is so much nicer than wherever they're from. And they're correct in a lot of technical aspects, save for their weather being shit, their food being shit and for them being literally the most boring people to be around that I've ever encountered.
Isnt this the same year that the TV license fee is going up? How do they justify that to the British taxpayers?