[He] "is a false prophet in the economic field" -- Euro-Central Bank Governor Council mbr. Nout Willink

From Eric Dondero:

Radio Netherlands is reporting that a "war of words," has broken out between "anti-Islam and Euro-skeptic MP Geert Wilders," and "president of the Dutch central bank, Nout Wellink." The battle is over bail-outs for Greece and possibly other EU nations including Portugal.

Wellink a "member of the European Central Bank Governing Council" is quoted:

Mr Wilders “mustn’t like his own people too much if he’s calling on them not to give any more money to Greece”.

Wilders has been on what has been characterized as an "anti-Greece crusade."

Talks of EU Refincancing Board were held in Luxembourg in early May, but the Netherlands was excluded.

From Reuters "Europe pressured to revise Irish and Greek bailouts":

Officials from the Netherlands, the fifth biggest euro zone economy, were not invited to Luxembourg and the Dutch government faced domestic criticism over the weekend for its exclusion.

"It is a humiliation and an insult that the Netherlands is being bypassed for talks about Greece," anti-immigration and eurosceptic member of parliament Geert Wilders told ANP news agency.

Split between Euro-conservatives and libertarians on bail-outs

Now Wilders is breaking with his coalition partners the Conservatives, and blasting the idea of the Dutch taxpayer being asked to fund the bailouts with no participation or oversight in the process.

Continuing from RN:

Mr Wilders attacked the government on the whole Greece crisis, clashing with the chairman of the governing conservative VVD, Stef Blok. Mr Blok said his party was distancing itself from the Freedom Party’s stance.

The VVD is the largest party in a coalition government with the Christian Democrats. As they don't have a parliamentary majority, they rely on Mr Wilders' PVV support in parliament.

Blok continued that if Greece were to fall, Portugal, and likely Spain, Bulgaria, and Italy, as well wreaking havoc on world markets.

[Wilders] PVV chief dismissed the arguments of both Mr Blok and Mr Wellink as “scare-mongering”.

ECB Prez Trichet - Financial Stability Fund should be expanded "in quantity and quality"

Meanwhile, Willink has been gaining international media in the financial press for his insistence on the appointment of Frenchman Jean-Claude Trichet as IMF Chief to replace alleged rapist Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Translated from the Dutch News site vk.nl:

Jean-Claude Trichet, the current president of the European Central Bank would make an excellent candidate for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to succeed him as head of the IMF said, President De Nederlandsche Bank, Nout Wellink yesterday.

Trichet is a major advocate of bail-outs Europe-wide, and like Strauss-Kahn supports a greatly expansive role for the IMF.

From euractiv.com "EU finance chiefs mull widening bailout fund" Jan. 17:

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the ECB, said on Sunday that the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) "should be improved in quantity and in quality".

"By quality, it means in terms of intervention to be as flexible as possible," Trichet told a Sunday news show hosted by RTL-LCI-Le Figaro.

See recent related LR article - "Sexual Pervert at the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn a committed Socialist" and LR article "Suspected Rapist Strauss-Kahn a big supporter of Bail-outs for Arab states" Photo credit - RYBuynSell and vk.nl