The US has even sent like $3k straight into the accounts of every citizen over the course of the pandemic! As far as I'm aware no other major country has done helicopter money like thia
All I'm saying is to me it doesn't make sense to just look at that 3k and compare it to all other major countries without context.
The topic at hand is "we are dumping money into the economy, how to do it." The curious point is that "give it to people" is an exceedingly rare solution. The primary recipients are banks (2009), large firms... occasionally public works and small businesses.
This was the case in europe and the US, but this time, unusually, a portion of the whole did go to people. In the EU, none did. It wasn't even considered.
The way health or education work is another matter, and it is not a decision Dutch parliamentarians of the current generation made.