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AMSTERDAM, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s government faces its biggest challenge yet as its 55 billion euro ($81 billion) plan to stabilise the Dutch financial sector appeared at risk of unravelling this week.
Talks with Germany’s Deutsche Bank over the sale of assets of Dutch bank ABN AMRO have broken down and Balkenende and Finance Minister Wouter Bos could be hauled into court over the breakup of the Belgian-Dutch bank Fortis Group.
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The banking woes are the latest problem for a government that was already on shaky ground. Social attitudes are changing, with growing dissatisfaction over the country’s tradition of tolerance of prostitution, drugs and immigration.
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“Their hope is to survive until 2011, and then hope for an economic bounce,” said Andre Krouwel, professor of politics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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