Labour and VVD should start talking, say employers and FNV

The Liberal and Labour leaders Mark Rutte and Job Cohen have to sit down together and start working on forming a stable coalition, Bernard Wientjes, head of the VNO-NCW employers organisation said on Radio 1 on Thursday morning.


But the fact the biggest party in the country has just 20% support is not good for stability, he said.
And Agnes Jongerius, leader of the country’s biggest trade union FNV said she too believed the two men should ‘take the lead’. The election results show the Netherlands has not ‘voted en masse for cold-hearted cost cutting’.

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