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She says this in an interview with the AD. The newspaper spoke to Máxima in Colombia, where she was on a UN trip. She also spoke about concerns she has about Dutch young people. “I am very concerned about the many buy-now-pay-later offers that young people in the Netherlands, for example, receive,” she says.
“I heard from a girl that a supplier made it very attractive to buy beautiful mascara, which she can repay in small parts. Because multiple purchases are often made in this way, people miss the overview and end up in the red. I don’t want that people have credit to buy too much, so that they end up in debt. That may be happening too much now.”
The Queen says that financial problems have a major impact. According to her, people who have problematic debts are mainly concerned with that and not with work and family. “That has a lot to do with your mental health, which is another area of my work.”
The Queen was in Colombia this week for her work for the United Nations. She is concerned with so-called financial inclusion, ensuring that as many people as possible in the world have access to a current account with which they can save, pay and insure themselves. Her work is no longer just promoting microcredit, she emphasizes to the AD.
We spoke earlier with Gerda and Farley, who can discuss this. “It’s the first thing you wake up with and the last thing you go to bed with,” Gerda said:
