New Dutch Government Plans 18 Billion Euros of Cuts
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Liberals and Christian Democrats in the Netherlands vowed to cut spending by 18 billion euros ($25 billion) by 2015 and ban full-face Islamic veils in their program for the first minority government since World War II.
“We’re going to reorganize the government finances,” Mark Rutte, 43, the Liberal Party leader who will become prime minister in the government backed by Geert Wilders’s anti-Islam Freedom Party, told reporters in The Hague today. “We want to give back the Netherlands to the hard-working citizen.”