00:00Can you speak?
00:01Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten held further talks with his coalition partners over the weekend
00:07in an effort to prevent his government from collapsing over a tax policy dispute.
00:12The talks follow an hours-long meeting on Friday, which ended without an agreement.
00:17There have been good things in the last period, but there are also things that don't go well.
00:22And that has an effect on the underlying relationships.
00:25That can and must be better.
00:28And that asks fundamental conversations where we have started today.
00:32And this conversation is not yet finished.
00:34And that's why I'm going to talk with the three coalition parties in the next few days.
00:40The disagreement centers on a proposed so-called millionaire's tax.
00:44Tensions escalated when the tax bill was passed by parliament after Jetten's centrist D66 party
00:50and the center-right Christian Democrats joined forces with two center-left opposition parties.
00:57However, one of the other coalition parties, the conservative VVD, had voiced opposition to the measure
01:03and voted against the budget plan as a whole.
01:05The
