Dutch government holds weekend crisis talks to stave off collapse

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten held further talks over the weekend with his coalition partners in an effort to prevent his government due to a collapse over a tax policy dispute. The talks follow an hours-long meeting on Friday, which ended without an agreement. Good things have happened recently. But there are also things that are not going well. And this affects the relationships among them. That can and must be better. That requires fundamental conversations, which we have begun today. This conversation is not yet finished. That is why I will spend the coming days in complete calm with The three coalition parties continue talking. The disagreement centers on a planned so-called millionaires' tax. The tensions escalated after the parliament The law has been approved with the centrist D66 party the center-right Christian Democrats working together with the two central opposition parties. Although the conservative VVD party voted against the measure He suspected the coalition would leave if it went beyond that point.