Dutch PM warns against copying Brexit 'chaos'

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned the Netherlands on Monday against emulating the "chaos" and division of Britain's decision to leave the European Union.

"I compare the Netherlands to a fragile vase, held by its 17 million citizens," Rutte said in a full-page advert, printed in the popular daily tabloid Algemeen Dagblad.

In order to preserve this 'vase', "compromises often have to be made in which difficult problems are solved in a sensible way," he said.

But Rutte, who has been Dutch premier since 2010 and currently leads a shaky coalition government, said there are examples in society "where the vase has been dropped."
In Dutch, however he warned at the summit against any move to take the Netherlands out of the EU, saying 'If anyone in the Netherlands thinks Nexit is a good idea, look at England and see the enormous damage it does."