Should Rutte be worried? asks the Volkskrant. The prime minister is in the dock on Tuesday for his 50bn Greek aid mistake. Not 109bn, as an insistent Rutte had it, but 159bn is the final figure for the rescue package. Rutte said sorry but the opposition politicians, called back from their ‘French campsites’, are angry with the prime minister for his ‘clumsiness’.

D66 and PvdA have spotted ‘a pattern’. Every time the Euro needs propping up the measures involved are presented in such a way as to make them less costly than they are, opposition mp Ronald Plasterk claims. This in order to placate the PVV. The paper says that although Rutte maybe in for a rough ride, he can probably count on the support of the opposition for the aid package. Just don’t let it happen again, warns Plasterk.
Nrc is clear about today’s debate. The opposition will support Rutte because a failure to do so would ‘jeopardise the future of European cooperation’ and it would have a hard time explaining that to their voters.
Trouw also thinks the cabinet will survive although Rutte may have to bow a little deeper than he has done. Rutte only apologised for the confusion surrounding the figures but the opposition wants a full apology. After all, ‘not to inform parliament completely amounts to misleading parliament and that is a black mark against any politician’s name’, the paper says.