Rutte bows out in The Hague with warning to new cabinet on EU
Dutch NewsOutgoing prime minister Mark Rutte fired a parting shot at the incoming coalition in his final debate in parliament, warning the parties not to put narrow national interests first when choosing the next Dutch EU commissioner. In a debate on the upcoming summit on Tuesday, Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the centre-right NSC, one of the partners in the new coalition, said Rutte should push for the appointment of a commissioner who “supports the headlines of the outline coalition agreement on European policy”. The cabinet also wants to pass a law declaring the asylum situation in the Netherlands a “crisis”, allowing it to depart from EU migration agreements, and seek a Danish-style opt-out on European asylum quotas, even though this would require all 27 nations to agree to change the EU’s founding treaties. “I wouldn’t want to explain this debate in France, I tell you.” Rutte posed for selfies with MPs at the end of the debate and received a gift of a giant EU flag to hang in his new office in Brussels, now he has been confirmed as the next secretary-general of Nato.
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