Cutback plans are a constant factor in The Hague. But when one of those plans means abolishing the Department of Management & Policy, minister Karel Bijl has to find help where he can to save his job.
The minister's intention to keep his electoral promise to cut away surplus civil servants in phases worries his staff deeply. Still his private secretary Maarten 'colloborates'. They all truly panic hearing the PM's office intends to follow his advice by eliminating only and all of Bijl's department. Fortunately a political friend knows a political secret.—KGF Vissers