A hypothetical Dutch withdrawal from the European Union is also commonly referred to as a "Nexit", based on "Brexit", the common name for a British withdrawal from the European Union.
A poll by the Pew Research Center in June 2016, before the British referendum, found the Dutch to have a 46% negative view of the European Union, less than the 51% of their population found to have a positive view towards it. Another poll, by peil.nl in the aftermath of the British vote, found 50% of the Dutch population to be against a similar referendum in their country and 46% to favour remaining in the union (compared to 43% against).
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the possibility of a referendum "utterly irresponsible". The most popular party in the country which favours it is the right-wing populist Party for Freedom; its leader Geert Wilders made it a key issue in their manifesto for the 2017 general election with his party leading the polls. Two other parties believe in EU withdrawal: GeenPeil and Forum voor Democratie.
American billionaire investor George Soros, who opposed Brexit, has named France and the Netherlands as the next countries to leave the EU. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, a prominent supporter of Brexit, predicted the Netherlands to be the next to leave the European Union.