Scrapping the euro and closing the Dutch borders, as called for by right-wing populist MP Geert Wilders, will lead to more unemployment in the Netherlands, deputy prime minister Maxime Verhagen says in an interview with website nu.nl.

Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV has a formal alliance with the ruling minority coalition, made up of the VVD Liberals and Christian Democrats.
‘What Wilders says sounds very reasonable – ‘What do I get out of Europe and the euro? Throw all those countries out’ – but you have to deal with the consequences,’ Verhagen told the website.
‘It would be very irresponsible if my policies led to one more person losing their job or one man or woman losing their savings or pension.’
The Dutch economy is based on exports and has earned its ‘wages and pensions’ in Europe for centuries, he said.
‘Our open economy would immediately be negatively impacted by an anti-European policy.’