The four parties involved in talks to form a new coalition aim to produce a short, compact coalition agreement, the two negotiators leading the discussions said on Tuesday.

The parties – the VVD, Labour, D66 and GroenLinks – aim to agree on broad policy strategy while leaving a lot of recommendations and decisions up to MPs themselves. They also plan to have fewer ministers and to begin appointing them as soon as possible.
The talks, now in their second day, are ‘deep into the contents,’ negotiator Uri Rosenthal told reporters.
The party leaders are currently looking at the cuts which need to be made to bring government spending back into line.