Half the Dutch Want to Leave the Eurozone

Half the Dutch Want to Leave the Eurozone

THE HAGUE, 19/07/11 - Half the population of the Netherlands want the Netherlands to leave the eurozone, according to a poll by Maurice de Hond. Of all those polled, 49 percent consider it would be better for the Netherlands along with Germany and other strong countries to leave the euro currency and carry on with a variant of the euro. Seven out of 10 respondents consider it unacceptable that the Netherlands has to make cutbacks but at the same time makes a lot of money available to other countries. Slightly over half the electorate, 54 percent, consider that the Netherlands should no longer contribute to loans to countries with financial problems. Unsurprisingly, this view is most widely shared by supporters of the Party for Freedom (PVV) - by 94 percent of them. Leftwing Green (GroenLinks) supporters are least likely to share this view, at just 29 percent. Read the rest on: nisnews.nl/