Garden of Choices: Triptych About Dutch Earning Potential
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On 22 April 2026, DNB Executive Director Olaf Sleijpen delivered a speech at the Jeroen Bosch Summit in Den Bosch, using Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights as a metaphorical framework to analyze Dutch earning potential. The speech presented a triptych structure: a stable starting point on the left panel, turbulent economic challenges in the center panel, and solutions for sustaining prosperity and a healthy business climate in the Netherlands and Europe on the right panel.
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This document records a speech by DNB Executive Director Olaf Sleijpen at the Jeroen Bosch Summit, using the triptych format of Hieronymus Bosch's famous artwork to frame discussion of Dutch earning potential. The speech addresses three panels: a calm starting point, turbulent central challenges, and solutions for maintaining prosperity and a healthy European business climate.
For compliance officers and financial professionals, this speech represents the Dutch central bank's perspective on economic conditions and future challenges facing the Netherlands and broader European economy. While the document carries no regulatory obligations, it signals DNB's analytical priorities and economic concerns at the executive level.
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- 2026-04-22
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- Den Bosch
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Garden of Choices: a triptych about our earning potential (speech held in Dutch)
Speech Read aloud On 22 April, Olaf Sleijpen spoke at the Jeroen Bosch Summit in Den Bosch. Drawing on Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, he sketched a triptych of the earning potential in the Netherlands: a calm starting point on the left-hand panel, a succession of challenges on a turbulent central panel, and a right-hand panel on how we can ensure that the good life and a healthy business climate continue in the Netherlands and Europe.
Published: 22 April 2026
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