The Netherlands' Christian Democrats on Saturday (2 October) approved a coalition agreement with the VVD Liberal party and the anti-Islam Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, finally allowing the formation of government following the June elections but attracting strong criticism from the European centre-right.
The Freedom Party will not be part of the cabinet but in exchange for offering support to the minority coalition, it managed to extract some controversial concessions including a gove...
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