A prayer without an end

The Dutch may be happy to speak English to foreigners but among themselves they are proud of their own language and its sayings. They call an endless process in which no progress is being made a 'gebed zonder end', a 'prayer without an end.' Outsiders, puzzled by the lack of progress in the discussion on corporate governance in the Netherlands, should be forgiven for referring to these deliberations as a gebed zonder end. After years of commissions, parliamentary letters and negotiations