The tables turned on the Netherlands on Thursday as the nation, first in line to scold deficit sinners such as Greece, was told by EU authorities to clean up its own financial situation.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who has led a hardline movement to bring Athens to implement harsh savings in exchange for a financial bailout, vowed to reduce his country's own budget shortfall as he arrived in Brussels for a two-day European Union summit.
"We trust that the Netherlands will do the necessary to comply," said the spokesman for EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn.
Rutte declared that his government would undertake budget cuts because it was important to do so, "not because Rehn wants it."
Note EU-Digest: Dutch PM Rutte's main problem is his coalition's entanglement with the PVV of Geert Wilders, who is more interested in being a populist and pushing for his party's nonsensical pet projects.
For more: Tables turned: Dutch under EU pressure to cut budget - FRANCE 24
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