New integration minister Gerd Leers was required to have a meeting with Geert Wilders prior to his appointment to clear the air, the NRC reports on Thursday.

Former Maastricht mayor Leers has made a number of highly critical comments about Wilders and his anti-Islam campaigns in the past.
Wilders was given the right to approve prospective ministers as part of the terms of his support for the minority government, the paper says.
Policies
Leers will be partly responsible for pushing through Wilders’ anti-immigration and refugee policies in parliament. After his appointment he said: ‘We have to get away from negative polarisation and see if we can build bridges.’
In the past, Leers has accused Wilders of having ‘absurd, disproportional ideas’ which should be greeted with ‘humour and relativism’.
Wilders’ policies are ‘extremist palaver’, he has said. The Christian Democrats should ‘not let Geert set the agenda, but let if come from the power of the party’s own message.’
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