Dutch cabinet to be sworn in next month: new PM

"The new cabinet will be sworn in on July 2," Dick Schoof said after meeting candidates considered for deputy ministerial positions in The Hague.

"The date is set in stone," Schoof was quoted as saying by the ANP national news agency.

Far-right leader Geert Wilders scored an election triumph in November polls, but had to give up his ambition to lead Europe's fifth-largest economy in order to form a majority coalition government with three other parties.

Schoof, a former senior Labour Party member, was then nominated in late May by the incoming coalition as their preferred candidate to become the Netherlands' next premier.

Despite a decision announced by the coalition that the cabinet would be split in half between politicians and outside experts, most of the names put forward are now from the ranks of the coalition parties themselves.

The anti-Islam, anti-migration Wilders told AFP after the new government's manifesto was released that it would enforce "the most tough anti-asylum (policy) ever implemented in the Netherlands."

He vowed the Netherlands would seek an opt-out from EU common policy on asylum, but this received a cool reception in Brussels and it is not clear how it would work.

Even Wilders admitted it would take many years and might not happen, promising instead to use Dutch law to restrict what he called a "tsunami of asylum-seekers".