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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7837

8 November 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/netherlands
Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm draws highly positive picture of Dutch economy and supports some harmonisation of pension tax systems in EU countries

Brussels, 07/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Dutch government has a flexible and cautious economic and budgetary policy and, for the past six or seven years, "results have been good": 3% growth, at times almost 4%; change from a budgetary deficit of 1.3% of GDP to a surplus of 0.15% (one has to go back to the fifties to find a similar surplus); a fall in the rate of unemployment (which is even lower than that in Luxembourg) thanks to a policy that gives people an incentive to work, mainly by...

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