Revived Dutch Coalition Bid With Greens Fails Over Migration
- Four-Way Talks with Greens collapsed previously four weeks ago
- At least four parties are needed for majority in lower house
From left, Jesse Klaver of the Green Left Party (GroenLinks), Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Alexander Pechtold of Democrats 66 (D66) and Sybrand Buma of the Dutch Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) talk in the garden of the Catshuis in The Hague, on June 12, during a meeting with informer Herman Tjeenk Willink.
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There’s still no coalition government in sight in the Netherlands after an attempt to revive formal talks on a four-party tie-up involving the Greens broke down late Monday.
Three months after the national election, preliminary talks collapsed over immigration policy, as they did in a previous bid to get the four parties to form an administration with a parliamentary majority four weeks ago.