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A Booming Entry into the New Year for the Dutch
"New Year's Eve is the only time in the Netherlands when the Dutch don't care how much they spend and abandon the moral high ground," Annette Birschel, a German journalist and author of a book on Dutch society, told AFP.
To try and rein in the Dutch enthusiasm for fireworks the authorities have restricted sales to a three day period of 29, 30 and 31 December and "only" 10 kilos (22 pounds) of fireworks per person.
While the interior ministry and other groups have launched campaigns to focus on the danger of fireworks, Birschel said the moral campaign like the Germans have urging people to give to charity rather than spend on pyrotechnic displays are absent.
"Throughout Christmas we are bombarded with national charity drives but nobody criticizes the money spent on fireworks," she said.
The Dutch media estimate that in 2006 the Dutch lit up 55 million euros (80 million dollars) of fireworks.
In the weeks before New Year's Eve not a day passes without reports of police seizures of illegal fireworks. German police recently seized 40 tonnes of illegal fireworks destined for the Netherlands after a tip-off from the Dutch authorities.
"It just doesn't stop! They spend 100, 150 euros but it's not rare that they ring up a 300 euro-bill. What the Belgians spend on champagne and delicatesses, the Dutch light up in firecrackers," said a Belgian store owner, who would not be named.
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