DutchNews, June 2,
2016
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Dutch and British prime ministers have a lot to talk about. |
Dutch
prime minister Mark Rutte has warned Britain that the EU may impose immigration
controls on British nationals if the UK border is closed to Europeans in the
event of a Brexit.
Leave campaign leaders are proposing a points system for
work visas by 2020 if the UK votes to leave the EU. And Rutte said in an interview
with the BBC that the rest of the EU would have no choice but to impose similar
rules in return.
The Leave proposals would be ‘very bad news for the UK, for
the Netherlands, for Europe as a whole, for two reasons,’ the Dutch prime
minister said.
‘First of all, take the Netherlands and the UK, we are both
sea-faring nations. Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on
the free market. It’s built on open borders,’ he said.
‘And, secondly, it would
be unavoidable, inevitable, for us and for many others in Europe to follow the
same proposals, to implement a points system in the rest of the European Union.
‘So you would get a race to the bottom. And that is exactly what you don’t
want.’
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