Dutch prime minister concedes his coalition needs ‘serious fresh start’ after anger at tax deal
Jetten called for a fresh start after the tax deal won a razor-thin majority and triggered anger from the VVD, which warned of a funding shortfall of more than €400 million.
- Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called a crisis meeting Friday with his two coalition partners to save his minority government after deep divisions emerged over wealth tax amendments Thursday.
- The three-party coalition, in power less than nine months, fractured Thursday when D66 and Christian Democrats backed opposition tax amendments that the right-wing VVD vehemently opposed.
- VVD leader Ruben Brekelmans called the vote "disillusioning" and "disconcerting," while PRO leader Jesse Klaver dubbed the tax deal a "millionaire's tax" that threatened business interests in the Netherlands.
- Jetten said he would do all he could to hold the coalition together and would seek "a new start" in Friday's meeting with his coalition partners.
- A government collapse could trigger new elections, marking the fourth in five years, though the left-wing Pro party ruled out forming another minority government Thursday.
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More talks are needed to avert the imminent risk of a government collapse in the Netherlands, said Prime Minister Rob Jetten after an emergency meeting on Friday evening.
In the Netherlands there was a threat of a break in the government. Now it is said that the crisis could be temporarily averted. After more than seven hours of crisis talks, the partners of the minority coalition of left-liberal Prime Minister Rob Jetten agreed that they would try to restart.
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The Daily ItemDutch prime minister holds hours of crisis talks as coalition acrimony erupts over tax package
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten is trying to prevent his coalition government from collapsing. On Friday, he held a crisis meeting with senior leaders of his two coalition partners. The meeting followed a heated debate over tax plans that took…
The Dutch Government, led by Prime Minister Rob Yetten, was able to overcome the political crisis and avoid resignation after many hours of negotiations, and the differences between the ruling parties were overcome following the seven-hour emergency talks between Rob Yetten and the vice-premiers Dylan Jeshilgez-Zegerius and Bart van den Brink, transmitting TASS with reference to the NOS channel. The Liberal People ' s Party for Freedom and …
Social They’ve reached an agreement. The VVD remains in the cabinet. There must be all sorts of very complicated substantive reasons regarding the national interest for this, which can be summarized in this poll in which the minority coalition becomes an even smaller minority in its own country. Rob Jetten, Prime Minister of a cabinet that advised against the now-infamous amendment but saw both his own D66 and Henri 'Casino' Bontenbal's CDA vote…
The Netherlands is in danger of entering a crisis of government after the ok to the proposal to increase the levy on financial profits over 60 thousand thanks to the vote of the oppositions and despite the vote against the Liberal party VVD.That now warns: so the capital attracted by tax relief goes away ...
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