THE HAGUE - The Dutch coalition party VVD is completely done with the agreements between the Netherlands, Curaçao, Aruba and St Maarten. As far as the liberals are concerned, the so-called Statute for the Kingdom of the Netherlands can be trashed.

The 1954 agreement, which has been amended several times, governs relations between the four countries. "But if nobody on the islands complies with the agreements, why should the Netherlands comply with the rules?" asks VVD MP André Bosman.

According to the Dutch MP, the islands do what they want, and they turn it into a mess. Sint-Maarten now has the ninth cabinet in ten years and Aruba, which is struggling with a mega debt, refuses to put things in order. "The statute does not work."

Bosman wants the Netherlands to unilaterally withdraw from the statute. "At some point we should be done with." The cooperation between the four countries must be revised, the MP said. The current status dates back to the decolonization of the Antilles. But according to the government, that process of becoming independent is over, the VVD emphasizes.

It is also unclear who should be approached and when. The European Court of Human Rights for abuses in Curaçao, for example, blamed the Netherlands, while the country of Curaçao itself is responsible for that.