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Article: The high road that leads out of the Low Countries.(Netherlands' form of government)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1999
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Many people think that recent economic reforms in the Netherlands-- which faces a new election after its government broke up this week-- offer a successful halfway house between Anglo-American free markets and continental welfare states. Frits Bolkestein, a leading Dutch politician, begs to differ. More liberal reforms are needed, he argues- -everywhere in Europe*
IN JUNE 1997 President Bill Clinton lauded the Dutch model of economic policy as a ``success story''. It deserved imitation, he said. Economic editors of most international newspapers also praised the economic performance in the polder behind the dykes. They wrote about ``The third way'' (New York ...