Dutch PM: Eurozone needs exit clause

EUObserver reported that in a letter released on the 31 January 2013 responding to a question in the Dutch Parliament, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said that his governing coalition had agreed that 'it should be possible under mutual consideration to exit from the community arrangements (Schengen, eurozone, European Union)'.

The letter follows Rutte's intervention the previous week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said that it 'should be possible' for countries to leave the eurozone and indicated that certain EU policy areas should be repatriated to national governments.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: David Cameron speech: UK and the EU http://www.europeansources.info/record/david-cameron-speech-uk-and-the-eu/

ESO: Background information: Dutch PM calls on EU to review its powers http://www.europeansources.info/record/dutch-pm-calls-on-eu-to-review-its-powers/

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