The leader of the country’s biggest employers’ organisation on Saturday attacked the Socialist Party, saying if the party’s polices are enacted, exports will collapse.

The SP is currently riding high in the opinon polls and may emerge as the biggest after the September 12 general election, making its leader Emile Roemer a potential prime minister.
‘Higher corporate taxes… less spending power, an increase in the minimum wage and youth wages, making it impossible to use flexible working… this is a disaster for companies which export,’ Bernard Wientjes told the AD on Saturday.
Wientjes also criticised the Labour and GroenLinks manifestos. ‘They breathe redistribution and tax increases. Every economist knows that,’ he said.
Stability
The VNO-NCW leader called for a return to political stability. ‘No more PVV or SP populism,’ he told the paper. “We need calm and stability and a cabinet which rules for four years.’
The last five Dutch cabinets have all failed to run for the full four-year term. The September general election is the fourth in 10 years.
Opinion polls indicate at least four parties will be involved in forming a new coalition, a process which is likely to take months.