23/11/2006 2:08:26 pm
What Dutch Government? Here in The Netherlands, the media is of course occupied with the results of yesterday′s elections. It seems to become very hard to form a new government. From my perspective, it is good that the reformist Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende beat the less reformist Labour Party. But on the other hand, the extreme left and right gained, while the most free-market party lost. In some way, there has to be one of those grand coalitions to have a majority. And that is not positive for reform prospects; the direction will be unclear. The trend from Germany, Italy and Austria is spreading. As in those countries, it remains to be seen if they will make the whole term or not.

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