Netherlands: Stability Programme. The Netherlands, 2001-2007 (update, October 2003)

Following the installation of the new Cabinet on 27 May 2003, an update of the Stability Programme was submitted in June. The June update was based on the new Cabinet's coalition agreement, known as the Global Agreement on Government Policy, and the previous Cabinet's Strategic Accord and supplementary package, both of which were fully adopted by the new Cabinet. Since the submission of the Stability Programme update in June, Cabinet has resolved to additional savings in response to the continuing deterioration of the economic and budgetary situation in the Netherlands. Contrary to the June update, the current update of the Stability Programme takes account of the Cabinet's additional package and is fully in line with the Budget Memorandum for 2004. The programme was sent simultaneously to Parliament and the European Commission

http://www.minaz.nl/english/government_policy/coalition_government/pdf/coalition_agreement03.pdf http://www.minaz.nl/english/government_policy/coalition_government/pdf/coalition_agreement03.pdf

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