VVD and PVV need time to consider whether to continue talks with CDA
De Volkskrant, page
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3-09-2010
The VVD and PVV want to reflect on the explanation given to them by CDA negotiator Maxime Verhagen of the crisis in the CDA. Mark Rutte and Geert Wilders will have to decide whether they have sufficient confidence to continue negotiations following the chaos in the CDA over the last two days.
Wilder appoints controversial Belgian as personal adviser
Trouw, page
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3-09-2010
With the appointment of Paul Belien (51) from Flanders as his personal assistant, Geert Wilders has greatly tightened his ties with the Belgian party Vlaams Belang. Belien, a journalist, has no official functions within the party but is regarded as the eminence grise of Vlaams Belang.
Staff of aid organisation protest at director’s salary
De Volkskrant, page
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3-09-2010
The board of Stichting Nederlandse Vrijwilligers (SNV) is under fire from their own employees over the high salaries for the board members. Employees have criticised the decision of the organisation’s supervisory board to ignore the call by minister of foreign affairs Maxime Verhagen to reduce the annual salary of SNV director Dirk Elsen, which is reportedly 160,000 euro.
The staff and supervisory board of Organon MSD in Oss yesterday reached a settlement with the pharmaceutical company MSD Nederland to explore alternatives to the reorganisation of Organon, the manufacturer of the anti-conception pill among other products.
