Zitat des Tages von Mark Rutte:
I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.
I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.
Never waste a crisis.
I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.
No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.
The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
Radical changes will come to the Netherlands. We stand for fundamental choices, and we need to make the right ones.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.
We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.
In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.
It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.
Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.
David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.
This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.