consequences also in the Netherlands
Prime Minister Mark Rutte, there are limits to the possibilities of the cabinet to reduce high-income energy bills, even if prices rise even further. “We should not make the promise that we can completely remove the consequences of this war for the Netherlands,” Rutte said in the television program WNL Op Zondag on NPO1.
The premiere in the program on government plans to improve the purchasing power of the Dutch. ”The ability to create a high-income and middle-income earner. There is a high risk that this part of the world was created to suffer consequences of this crisis. Our purchasing power will not increase this year.”
recession
Ingrid Thijssen, that income for a scenario in which the Dutch economy enters a recession. Rutte: ”I think that’s too gloomy a scenario and I don’t think it’s wise to speculate about it, there is no reason for that. We have a strong economy and the figures before the war are very favourable. Our industry was still running like clockwork. But our economy will feel it anyway, because the war in Ukraine is the biggest geopolitical blow,” said Prime Minister and VVD leader Mark Rutte.
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Door: Menen Seijkens
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