{"id":25908,"date":"2010-07-25T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/netherlands-center-left-talks-fail-back-to-square-1\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:08:35","slug":"netherlands-center-left-talks-fail-back-to-square-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/netherlands-center-left-talks-fail-back-to-square-1.php","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands: Center-left talks fail, Back to Square 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TEmhk4k_ivI\/AAAAAAAAMYM\/emYU-v9vo9c\/s1600\/Netherlandsskyline.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e6c96_Netherlandsskyline.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>by Clifford F. Thies <\/p><p>The second attempt to form a majority coalition, following this year&rsquo;s parliamentary election in the Netherlands, has failed. The market-liberal Dutch People&rsquo;s Party could not reach an agreement with three left-of-center parties &ndash; the center-left Labor Party, the progessive-left Democrats, and the Greens &ndash; on spending cuts. This followed a failure to form a coalition of three center-right and right-wing parties &ndash; the Peoples Party, the center-right Christian Democrats and the populist-right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. The sticking point in that set-up was the more over-the-top planks of the Freedom Party&rsquo;s manifesto concerning Islam and immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Muslim world. It appeared that the Christian Democrats, still smarting from their dramatic fall-off in the popular vote, queered the deal by demanding that the Freedom Party renounce its manifesto prior to and as a condition for negotiations. Mark Rutte, leader of the People&rsquo;s Party, has reiterated his preference for a coalition of the right.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/23fe3_7828681836623105417-6117586253439919164?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Clifford F. Thies The second attempt to form a majority coalition, following this year&rsquo;s parliamentary election in the Netherlands, has failed. The market-liberal Dutch People&rsquo;s Party could not reach an agreement with three left-of-center parties &ndash; the center-left Labor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/netherlands-center-left-talks-fail-back-to-square-1.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}