Euroskeptics in the Netherlands are gearing up for the final days of campaigning before an EU referendum on a proposed trade deal with Ukraine.
Ostensibly the poll, scheduled for April 6, is over one policy issue —whether the Dutch government should ratify an EU-Ukraine deal, signed in March 2014, that would make trade between EU states and Ukraine easier. It has been ratified by all 27 other member states.
But the debate has become about more than just a single trade deal.
Polls increasingly show that a “No” vote is likely—including a mischievous survey conducted in the Dutch town of Crimea, which shares …read more
Source: Newsweek
