What Ingrid says of it
The Netherlands cannot afford another period of political stagnation. So says VNO-NCW president Ingrid Thijssen recently in an interview with De Telegraaf. She is deeply concerned about the failure to find solutions to urgent problems such as nitrogen and high energy prices. “If you look back to the fall of Rutte-IV, in a moment you had a period of six years in which there was only a cabinet in place and governing for a year and a half.”
Predictable policies needed
According to Thijssen, it is therefore important that a stable cabinet that pursues predictable policies and has an eye for competitiveness and the investment climate now quickly emerge. “I think we can now conclude that that extra-parliamentary experiment was not a success. It led to a much worse governability of our country.” Politicians were too often concerned with the interests of their own constituencies. “What the country needs is stable policy: followable and predictable, not that in one night or evening everything changes. The Netherlands has become unreliable and unstable in recent years.”