Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister, resigned after his fragile liberal-conservative coalition government, which has a no parliamentary majority, fell apart at the weekend after the far-right Freedom Party walked out of talks to implement £12 billion (15bn euros) in cuts. The impasse in one of the euro's last remaining countries to have a AAA credit rating comes as financial markets have been jolted by the prospect of an anti-austerity Socialist French president and as high Spanish banking debt threatens to reignite the EU single currency's debt crisis. The vote will call into question whether eurozone austerity policies that have triggered the fall of governments and the rise of technocratic administrations in "peripheral" southern Europe can even be enforced in "core" northern European countries such Holland and France. The Dutch crisis came after Geert Wilders, the leader of the Freedom Party, withdrew support for Mr Rutte's minority Liberal and Christian Democrat government, after accusing it of bowing to Brussels demands to "bleed" the people. The decision by Mr Wilders, whose anti-Islam party has switched its focus to campaign against the EU, came as Dutch opinion polls on Sunday found that 57 per cent of voters are opposed to the cuts. The European Commission repeated its demand for the Dutch government to submit measures to balance the budget in line with euro spending rules to Brussels within nine days. "The commission trusts that the Dutch government will continue to seek a budget solution," said a spokesman. Governments commit on behalf of states. Therefore commitments are not linked to one government. Governments change but commitments on behalf of states cannot be changed without discussion with European partners.