Re: en hier is balkenende vooral bang om

"-" <-@-> wrote in news:[email protected] .nl:

> Het is bij de eu doorgedrongen en hoe is Balkenende omschreven
> Attempts by the country’s unpopular prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende
>
> Dit zal onze goed vriend niet lekker zitten en vooral niet als dit in de
> eu-observer word geschreven
> Daar gaat zijn carriere :-)
>
> Euro row boosts Dutch No camp
> 18.05.2005 - 09:31 CET | By Mark Beunderman
> EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A fresh row over the euro looks set to boost the
> eurosceptic climate in the Netherlands, where further polls have
> indicated a majority for a "no" in the upcoming referendum on the EU
> constitution.
>
> The row erupted on 30 April, when the director of the Dutch National
> Bank revealed to Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool that at the time of the
> introduction of the euro, the Dutch Guilder had been undervalued by 5 to
> 10 percent.
>
> Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm admitted last week that this was true
> – contrary to statements he had made earlier.
>
> Meanwhile, the row has become a major issue in the campaign on the
> referendum on the EU constitution, which the Netherlands will hold on 1
> June.
>
> According to sources referred to by De Volkskrant on Tuesday (17 May),
> the Dutch government fears that the matter will negatively interfere
> with its own "yes" campaign.
>
> The undervaluation of the Guilder is being linked to high inflation
> following the euro’s launch in 2001 - which made the currency unpopular
> among many Dutch citizens.
>
> 'No' camp ahead
> The country last week saw two polls showing the "no" camp consolidating
> its lead.
>
> A survey conducted for the Dutch government predicted that 40 percent of
> Dutch voters would vote against the EU charter, while 39 percent would
> endorse the text.
>
> The election researcher Maurice de Hond estimated over the weekend that
> opposition to the treaty stands at 45 percent, compared to 37 percent in
> favour.
>
> Mr Zalm said on Friday (13 May): "it is going to be close", adding: "I
> am not sure of a yes".
>
> Confidence gap
> The euro row looks set to further increase what Mr de Hond has decribed
> as a "gap of confidence" between voters and Dutch politicians.
>
> Support among Dutch political parties for the Constitution is broad and
> ranges from the Green Left to right-liberals.
>
> As a sign of Dutch "cynicism", Mr de Hond points to the fact that two
> thirds of respondents expect the Dutch parliament (which has the last
> say over ratification of the Constitution) to approve the charter even
> if the outcome of the referendum is a rejection.
>
> Attempts by the country’s unpopular prime minister, Jan Peter
> Balkenende, to portray the Constitution as the historical answer to
> World War II appear to have had a counterproductive effect.
>
> On 8 May, Mr Balkenende during a commemoration of World War II victims
> alongside US president Bush explicitly referred to the EU Constitution.
>
> But nearly 60 percent of the Dutch found this inappropriate, according
> to Mr de Hond.
>
> Dehaene sees Dutch malaise
> One of the architects of the EU Constitution, the former Belgian Prime
> Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, has compared the Dutch political climate
> surrounding the EU referendum to that of 2002 – when the rightist
> politician Pim Fortuyn rocked the Dutch political landscape.
>
> Mr Fortuyn, who was murdered by an animal rights activist a few days
> before the May 2002 national elections, won more than 20 percent of
> votes at once on an anti-establishment and anti-immigration programme.
>
> Mr Dehaene told NRC Handelsblad last week, "I sufficiently know the
> malaise in Dutch public opinion. It has resulted in Pim Fortuyn
> earlier".

Lees: 'In Belgie zal zoiets nooit gebeuren.'

Zeldzaam misselijk stuk vreten....de enige reden dat de Walen en Vlamingen
niet eendrachtig de strot van het Belgische kabinet hebben doorgebeten
vanwege BHV is dat het Vlaams Belang anders de verkiezingen zou winnen.
Als bange dieren in een kooi.

> The parallel with the Fortuyn revolt was made earlier by an opponent of
> the EU Constitution, the philosopher Ad Verbrugge. He wrote in NRC
> Handelsblad at the end of April:
>
> "Europe is in a pre-Fortuyn stadium. Among citizens, an uneasy feeling
> is growing that with the European Union they are in a roaring machine,
> run by people in whom they do not recognize themselves".
>
> National identity
> In particular, the issue of national identity – addressed by Mr Fortuyn
> in relation to immigration - appears to now be again playing a role in
> the EU referendum.
>
> The rightist politician Geert Wilders, who tours the country in a 'No"
> bus, carries the slogan "the Netherlands should remain".
>
> The leftist Socialist Party warns against a European "superstate".
>
> But Prime Minister Balkenende wrote in the daily, Trouw, last week that
> the Constitution will reinforce Dutch identity, strengthening safeguards
> for Dutch "values, freedoms, rights, culture and traditions".
>
>
>
>



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Willem-Jan Markerink

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is sometimes far less intelligent than
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