Google Translate: The new advisory council gives the city council more control over the naming of streets, squares and bridges. The members are appointed for a term of three years. Politicians had little or no involvement in the composition of the street names committee. When one of the external members no longer felt like it, the other members started looking for a suitable replacement with a thorough knowledge of Amsterdam and its history. Sociologist Herman Vuijsje, one of the external members of the expelled street names committee, denounces the course of events, also from a historical perspective. "The commission was founded in 1934 and has thus functioned satisfactorily for almost ninety years. And now the commission is liquidated in a sigh and a sigh, without any participation. It is a great loss for the city that the street naming now being politicized along this way." #ToponymEuropeNetherlandsAmsterdam