"We are very gas dependent and we have to do something about it. In my opinion it will be very difficult to achieve a clean energy household in 2050 without nuclear energy." "Do you have to build a nuclear energy plant or do you import energy generated by nuclear from France, which is what we are doing now? So there are two questions: can we do without - and I don't think we can - and do we need our own nuclear power plant?"
Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch economics minister on 19 May