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Mehrheit der Niederländer will Halbierung des EU- Beitrags

Veröffentlicht 12. April 2010
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Die Mehrheit der Wähler in den Niederlanden ist für eine Halbierung des niederländischen Beitrags zum Haushalt der Europäischen Union und den Fonds für Entwicklungshilfe, zeigten am Sonntag (11. April) die aktuellen Meinungsumfragen im Vorfeld der Parlamentswahlen im Juni.

The Maurice de Hond poll found a whopping 63% of voters support halving the Dutch contribution to the EU budget.

54% said they supported cutting development aid and restricting immigrants' benefits. A majority also supported scrapping immigrants' integration subsidies and banning them from public benefits for their first 10 years in the country.

The results, from of a survey of public attitudes to proposals for budget cuts ahead of the 9 June election, showed Dutch people are sceptical about their country's famed multicultural attitude and its role in Europe.

All four measures are part of the liberal VVD party's budget programme for the 9 June parliamentary elections, which it unveiled on Friday. Recent opinion polls put the VVD as high as second place.

In the European Parliament, the VDD is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), a federalist party headed by former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.

The clear election favourite in all polls is the Labour Party, which also unveiled its programme last week. The poll found 57% support for Labour's plan to shrink the army.

The next government is expected to cut the budget by up to 20 billion euros to rein in a budget deficit that is twice the EU limit of 3% of GDP.

The anti-immigrant Freedom Party is expected to be another big winner in the election, with a platform of stopping non-Western immigration and blocking the growing Muslim influence on Dutch society.

(EurActiv with Reuters.)

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