Netherlands said 'No', how do we go?

But what it ultimately means that the question remains. The government will consider the outcome and will eventually have to explain in Brussels what it wants now.

EU President Donald Tusk wait to Netherlands comes to him. "I keep in touch with this Prime Minister Rutte, as I need to hear what traits he and his government for conclusions from the referendum and what his intentions are."

WHAT NOW?
Metro asked Professor Linda Senden, professor of EU law at Utrecht University, which could now do the Cabinet.

According to her, Mark Rutte five options:

simply ratify

Despite the result, and despite the rise, it is the government and parliament still free to simply ratify the treaty with Ukraine. The law only requires that the Cabinet, the Senate and the House should reconsider the treaty. They can do and then say we are going to do it by.

2 Add an explanation

Countries are free to add a statement to the treaty. The Dutch could not in such a statement be added along with, for example, the promise that never Netherlands will agree to a Ukrainian EU membership. "Such a statement has no legal status," Senden explains. "It's more a letter with a political message."

Force 3 Exception Position

The outcome of the referendum can also be seen as a need to change the treaty. Netherlands may try to avoid having to make some arrangements. "For the United Kingdom (UK), Ireland and Denmark are also associated with this association agreement already made such exceptions on the position of Ukrainian workers abroad. Netherlands could do something like that. This must be unanimously approved by the Council of Ministers. "

Adjust 4 Treaty

It is also possible that the treaty itself is adapted. Netherlands could ask to put that Ukraine can not become an EU member in it. "It is legally possible to break the treaty, but politics seems unrealistic," Senden thinks. To change the text of the Convention all Member States, the European Commission and the Government of Ukraine all back to the table. The adapted treaty must then be re-approved by all national parliaments.

5 not ratify

The heaviest means that the Netherlands, the Convention only Member State simply not ratify. This does not mean that the whole treaty then the job. The major part of the agreements is about making it easier of doing business. "This is the site of the European Union itself," said Senden. "There is no need for Dutch approval."

http://www.metronieuws.nl/  by Rens Oving Photo: Reuters