French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to talk more about the Netherlands’ plan to introduce a special euro commissioner to focus on eurozone budget discipline, prime minister Mark Rutte said on Monday evening.

Rutte was speaking after a meeting between himself and Sarkozy to discuss EU finances ahead of next weekend’s crucial summit.
The Netherlands first put forward the idea of a eurozone commissioner last month. The commissioner’s main task would be to ensure countries keep monetary union rules.
Support
Earlier German chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have found the idea ‘very interesting’ while EU chairman Jose Manuel Barroso is said to be positive about the idea.
However NRC correspondent Dirk Vandenberghe said Rutte should not over-estimate the impact of his suggestion.
‘In the first place, it was a polite answer. He said he wants to talk more about how to ensure budgetary discipline,’ Vandenberghe wrote. ‘But this sort of bogyman is not Sarkozy’s favourite solution. If [Sarkozy] says he supports the idea, it will be with a great many conditions.’
Agenda
Rutte is quoted as saying by news agency ANP that his plan will be on the agenda during the weekend’s talks. ‘I don’t expect any breakthroughs but I do want to make sure it is on the table,’ he said.
Rutte said it is also important that France, Germany and the Netherlands, all three countries with a high credit rating, should put on a united front at the summit.