Still reeling from the French no’ and the latest bleak opinion poll forecasts, all the main Dutch political leaders are pulling out all the stops ahead of the vote tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Jan Peter Balkenende, the Prime Minister, put on a brave face, arguing: We must not let ourselves be influenced by the French; their no’ is even more of a reason for us to vote yes’. The Economic Affairs Minister, Jan Brinkhorst, added: We are not a province of France, we are an independent country. To look to events in France and think that we should also vote ‘no’ would be a very short-sighted vision.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb A prominent diplomat in The Hague said: It seems highly probable that this country will vote no’. But if there had been a French yes’ and a Dutch no’, it would have been even worse because of the isolation and the uphill battle to re-establish our position in Europe; you could say we have now slipped through the eye of the needle, as it were.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Wouter Bos, the leader of the opposition Labour PvdA, argued that there was no reason why the Dutch should also reject the constitution as both left and right-wing voters in France said no’.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Boris van der Ham, an MP with the Democrat D66 party, called on the Netherlands to exercise its historic position of independence by voting in favour, thus refusing to be influenced by the French. Doing so is the only way to reduce the 40bn (\u00a327bn) in agriculture subsidies and the Dutch contribution to the EU budget, he said.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 31 mai 2005 \u00e0 07H50<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les Hollandais votent demain. Le non semble devoir l’emporter. L’influence du vote fran\u00e7ais de dimanche sera importante pour les \u00e9lecteurs, mais sans doute moins qu’on pourrait l’estimer dans la passion de ces deux derniers jours. Du point de vue des derniers arguments de campagne, au contraire, le vote fran\u00e7ais joue un r\u00f4le consid\u00e9rable sinon exclusif.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[398,2687,1225],"class_list":["post-66460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-referendum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}