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Timmermans (l) and the Dutch ambassador to the EU (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Netherlands attacks 'creeping' EU powers

The Netherlands, one of the Union's six founding countries, has attacked "creeping" EU interference in people's day-to-day lives.

Its coalition government said in a memo published on Friday (21 June): "The Netherlands is convinced that the time of an 'ever closer union' in every possible policy area is behind us."

It said the Union's slogan should be: "European where nece...

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