Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned Thursday it would be the “biggest ever present” for Russian President Vladimir Putin if a historic EU-Ukraine cooperation deal is torpedoed by popular opposition in the Netherlands.
Rutte said he was “moderately optimistic” of a deal at an EU summit in Brussels for steps to allow his country to finally ratify the deal despite Dutch eurosceptics winning a referendum in April rejecting the pact.
“Taking the agreement off the table would be the biggest present ever we could give to Vladimir Putin,” he said as he went into a leaders’ summit in Brussels.
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Source: African news network 7
