DutchNews, October 10, 2017
Finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem on the annual spending review. Photo: Finance ministry still |
Dutch caretaker finance
minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem is to stay on as chairman of the influential
Eurogroup of finance ministers until January next year, even though he will no
longer be a minister by then.
Members of the group decided unanimously on
Monday that Dijsselbloem can remain in the job until the second of his two
terms in office expires at the beginning of 2018. His replacement will be
chosen by the Council of Ministers on December 4.
Dijsselbloem, a Labour minister,
has won praise for the way he has carried out the job, particularly in his
support for an EU banking union, according to the NRC.
He has also faced calls
for his resignation after last year telling a German newspaper that there is a
need for budgetary discipline among the member states in the Eurozone. ‘I
cannot spend all my money on drink and women and then ask for help,’ he said.
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