Dutch Prime Minister Rutte himself decided which text messages were important and which were not – and that’s a problem

For years, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte systematically erased text messages from his old telephone ‘to save storage space’. That writes the Volkskrant on Wednesday. Heard that Rutte didn’t keep everything de Volkskrant in a lawsuit filed by the newspaper itself.

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In the list of classics that define the premiership of Mark Rutte, ‘real-time archiving’ can be somewhere between ‘Rutte doctrine’ and ‘no active memory’ from this Wednesday. Every time…

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