{"id":127511,"date":"2021-06-01T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=127511"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:40","slug":"demonstration-hundreds-of-students-expected-on-malieveld-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/06\/01\/demonstration-hundreds-of-students-expected-on-malieveld-in-the-hague\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration: hundreds of students expected on Malieveld in The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"

We want to study debt free, is the message of hundreds of students who will be demonstrating in The Hague on Thursday with Dutch Student Union (LSVb) and FNV Young & United. But not everyone supports the student demonstration.<\/p>\n

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Students demonstrate against the loan system in front of the town hall in Rotterdam.<\/span><\/p>

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The preparations are in full swing, says president Lyle Muns from the Dutch Student Union. Nine hundred registrations have already been received for the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>demonstration<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in The Hague \u201cand they are still flooding in\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buses will travel from Amsterdam and Groningen, and perhaps a few more cities. Some MPs are also coming, says Muns, although he won\u2019t mention any names now. Several political youth organisations are joining in. Students can also come along without registering.<\/span><\/p>\n

#nietmijnschuld<\/h2>

The demonstration is part of the #nietmijnschuld (not my debt) campaign organised by LSVb and FNV Young & United. The aim: a good basic grant and compensation for students in the current student loan system. With a small part-time job as well, in future they feel it should be possible to study \u2018debt free\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prominently absent from Thursday\u2019s student demonstration is the Dutch National Student Association (ISO). \u201cI would love to have had them along too,\u201d says Muns. He doesn\u2019t want to focus on the differences. \u201cReally, there are lots more similarities than differences. We both want a basic grant and compensation for students with student loans, and we both want to avoid that money coming out of the education budget.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So why isn\u2019t the ISO joining in? \u201cWe have a different idea about what should happen,\u201d says president Dahran \u00c7oban. \u201cThe demonstration is being organised separately from us. We have our own ideas, which we will announce soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t

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