Dutch Must Restart Coalition Talks After Collapse on Immigration
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Dutch informer, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Edith Schippers, talks to the press after the stalled negotiations, in The Hague, on May 15.
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Dutch lawmakers will have to decide how to press ahead with forming a new multiparty government after two months of coalition talks unexpectedly collapsed late Monday.
The breakdown of the negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Liberals, the Christian Democrats, the centrist D66 party and the Greens came exactly two months after general elections in the Netherlands. The discussions faltered over disagreements on immigration, Edith Schippers, the Liberal health minister appointed by parliament to lead the talks, told reporters in The Hague.