The Dutch need to stand their ground in Europe
Dutch NewsThe coronavirus crisis is generating orgies of spending all over the world, including and particularly in Europe. Angela Merkel, who dropped her objection to Eurobonds in her and Emmanuel Macron’s €500bn recovery fund plan, is clearly intent on making the second half of 2020 a German-European celebration, featuring more spending, more migration and more climate related measures, together with her compatriot and fellow party member Ursula van der Leyen. Just when prime minister Mark Rutte was doing so well European leaders have taken to calling him ‘childish’ or even ‘repulsive’. As the Dutch no vote to a European constitution in 2005 showed, the Dutch people’s support for the hungry caterpillar that is Brussels is wavering. The intelligent variant of Jetten’s flowers is that the Dutch are profiting from stability, including on the financial markets and that the flow of money to Italy is the price we have to pay.
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