The Dutch government collapsed over immigration policy
The crisis was caused by the desire of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, of the conservative right-wing VVD party, to limit the flow of asylum seekers to the Netherlands. Tensions came to a head this week when Rutte demanded that three other parties in the ruling coalition – the Christian Democrats CDA, the liberal centrists D66 and the small Protestant party ChristenUnie – agree to set a quota for the number of children from areas of armed conflict who can obtain asylum in the Netherlands, reports AFP. It also calls for refugees already settled in the Netherlands to no longer be