Dutch PM agrees to change health bill to avoid government collapse


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  • Friday, 19 Dec 2014

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks during a joint news conference with Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak in Putrajaya November 5, 2014. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a letter to parliament late Thursday that his party would revise a health bill that was blocked in the senate, potentially staving off the collapse of his fragile centre-right coalition government.

Earlier on Thursday Rutte was forced to pull out of an EU summit to deal with a mounting political crisis over the bill, which has highlighted a deep divide between his Liberal party and the left-of-centre Labour, with which he shares power.

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