PVV leader Geert Wilders should start accepting his political responsibilities and stop ‘reciting from his election manifesto’, Maxime Verhagen, deputy prime minister and acting leader of the CDA, says in an interview with website nu.nl.

The PVV has agreed to support the minority coalition on economic policy in return for tougher immigration controls. That agreement includes making extra spending cuts on top of the €18bn already agreed if necessary.
Last week, Wilders said his party would not support any more government spending cuts, unless €4bn was sliced off the development aid budget.
In the interview Verhagen says Wilders has to realise the time for easy choices in terms of cuts is over.
‘You have to ask yourself ‘how creative can you be in contributing to the recovery of the Dutch economy and in preserving jobs and income for the future,’ Verhagen said.
Turkey
Meanwhile, the Volkskrant asks if Wilders’ recent statements about government spending and his failure to support the cabinet over gay marriage means the PVV leader is out to break the alliance or is simply trying to attract attention.
Political sources say Wilders has become increasingly withdrawn and that neither of the coalition parties know what he is thinking, the paper said.
Wilders’ article in Saturday’s Volkskrant calling on the government to cancel next year’s celebrations of 400 years of Turkish-Dutch relations is particularly painful because it forced foreign minister Uri Rosenthal to make a written reaction, journalist Remco Meijer writes.
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