H.E. Mr. Paul Schellekens:

Perhaps I will comment on euroscepticism. The suggestion was that if there was a good result from the deal with the UK, there might be other exits and a question was asked about how political parties in the Netherlands would react to this. If there was a referendum in the Netherlands, there would not be an exit. There may be negative feeling but I am sure a majority of the people would not vote for an exit. According to the law we have now, there cannot be a referendum on the EU. We have had a referendum on the association agreement with the Ukraine but that was a treaty that was not yet working. There cannot be a referendum on an existing treaty in the Netherlands.