Dutch government risks split over immigration curbs

FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte speaks as he attends a news statement with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (not pictured) at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil May 9, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The stability of the Dutch governing coalition is in doubt after its parties failed to agree on measures to curb immigration, with crisis talks expected to run into the weekend.

A push by Prime Minister Mark Rutte's conservative VVD party to limit the flow of asylum seekers to the Netherlands split his four-party government coalition, as two junior parties refused to support proposals to make it harder for refugee families to reunite.