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1 November 2010

EU fines threaten to reduce public support for Europe

Countries in the eurozone which fail to keep to the budgetary rules will in the future be more-or-less automatically fined, according to reports in the Dutch press. Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager is perfectly happy with this agreement, because he hopes that it will mean that a new crisis such as has occurred in Greece can be prevented. The agreement carries major disadvantages, however, which could seriously undermine support for the EU.

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29 October 2010

Shortfall in development aid will cost lives

The agreement signed between the newly governing parties is not only bad news for people of limited means in the Netherlands, but also for the millions of people elsewhere in the world forced to live on less than a euro a day. Is that something to be proud of?

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29 October 2010

False start for Rutte at EU summit

During his first European Council – the regular meeting of EU heads of government – newly-elected Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte achieved precisely the opposite of what the coalition agreement between his party and the Christian Democrats - as well as the 'toleration agreement' with the far right PVV - committed him to: not less, but more money and more power will be transferred to Brussels. For SP Member of Parliament and European spokesman Harry van Bommel, this was indeed a 'false start'.

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27 October 2010

De Jong: European Commission must take action against growing corruption in member states

A newly-published report from Transparency International has revealed that a large number of EU member states have slid further down the annual global index of corruption. Culprits include Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, while countries such as Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa have shown improvement. SP Euro-MP Dennis de Jong describes the findings as "unacceptable", adding that he wants to see "an action plan from the European Commission against corruption within the EU. The Commission must also step up monitoring of these countries when it comes to the spending of European subsidies."

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27 October 2010

Attack on Iran must have Security Council mandate

According to Peter van Walsum, former diplomat and ex-member of the Davids Commission into the Netherlands' role in the war on Iraq, an American attack on Iran is imminent and the Netherlands must now ask itself whether such an intervention would be worthy of political support.

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27 October 2010

SP's internal market critique embraced by Commission

SP Euro-MP Dennis de Jong has described his response to the European Commission's new political line regarding the internal market as 'enthusiastic'. "The Commission says that the internal market must be given a social face. From now on the public rather than the big corporations must be given centre stage. Workers' rights must be secured and strengthened and the interests of small and medium-sized firms better served. Criticisms which the SP has long had regarding the functioning of the internal market have now been embraced by the Commission."

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