EU expansion a mistake says minister

Immigration minister Rita Verdonk told a Liberal (VVD) party meeting last night that she considered the expansion of the EU in 2004 a ‘wrong decision’. ‘I’ve never understood it and I am not happy with it,’ the Volkskrant quoted Verdonk as saying. The decision meant cheap Polish painters are undercutting Dutch companies, she added.

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