The handling of the euro crisis must be quicker

 Nov. 25th

De aanpak van de eurocrisis moet sneller

The handling of the euro crisis must be quicker

Dutch PM Mark Rutte wants that the handling of the euro crisis will be accelerated.
The Netherlands will therefore "step on it" Mr Rutte said Friday in a press conference after the weekly council of ministers. Rutte sees that it "moves difficultly" between France and Germany.

The Netherlands have a good relations with Berlin and Paris according to him but also with London and therefore it can play a role in the consultations. Rutte is playing that role along with his finance minister Jan Kees de Jager and his undersecretary Ben Knapen of European issues "very very intensively. Our by our", according to the prime minister. 

Rutte would like the execution of agreements made at the last eurotop summit of end October to speed up and does his best with suggestions "which could build a bridge between the positions of France and Germany"

In the French-German disagreement about the bigger role of the European central bank he remains neutral. "The ECB is independent. Just in a general sense The Netherlands isn't a friend of monetary finance"