Rutte cabinet answers chamber questions on 'unsupported' VAT measure

That will be fodder for chamber chapters-exegeten, although the question is whether it will make any difference. But Halbe Zijlstra says he did not say that the VAT measure "was not the most mature measure in the coalition agreement. Although that is what it said in that interview with him in NRC Handelsblad on 8 July 2011. At the time, everyone thought this was a funny knee-jerk reaction to reasonableness by the change manager Zijlstra, who usually operates rather harshly and without background knowledge. After all: even the youthful police spec...