Dutch Cabinet Gets Emergency Powers in Case of No-Deal Brexit
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Dutch parliament passed a bill giving Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s coalition government emergency powers in case of a no-deal Brexit.
A majority of lawmakers in the parliament’s lower house in The Hague granted the cabinet a six month period -- rather than a year as the government had proposed -- to use special powers as the country of about 17 million prepares for the eventuality of the U.K. leaving the European Union without a divorce agreement.