Talks to cobble together a right-wing coalition in the Netherlands combining the conservative liberals of Mark Rutte's VVD, the far-right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders and the centre-right Christian Democrats have ended without result after eight days.
Both the VVD and the Freedom Party (PVV) blame a rejectionist Christian Democrat position for the failure.
The Christian Democrats of outgoing prime minister Jan Peter Balkanende refused to participate in the talks until the Freedo...
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