I was just at my friends kid's birthday party and I was talking to my buddy's sister who is planning a European vacation and one of her stops is Amsterdam. She was talking me that their government collapsed the other day but I didn't hear anything about it. Well I googled it and it sure isn't looking good over there. The prime minister and cabinet resigned. Deff a scary situation. Here is one article but a lot more are out there is you google it.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/dutch-cabinet-in-crisis-talks-after-euroskeptic-wilders-walks-out-of-austerity-negotiations/2012/04/23/gIQAPFTNbT_story.html

I was just at my friends kid's birthday party and I was talking to my buddy's sister who is planning a European vacation and one of her stops is Amsterdam. She was talking me that their government collapsed the other day but I didn't hear anything about it. Well I googled it and it sure isn't looking good over there. The prime minister and cabinet resigned. Deff a scary situation. Here is one article but a lot more are out there is you google it.

 

http://www.washingto...TNbT_story.html

 

In a parliamentary system it isn't all that uncommon for the PM and cabinet to resign. The government hasn't really "collapsed," and all of the elected representatives are still in power. The PM is not selected by the people as a President is, he is selected by whichever party or coalition of parties has the majority in government.

Off topic but still Dutch, many yrs ago my wife and I did some Euro backpacking and I loved Amsterdam/Holland. Amdam had lots of tasty "coffee" shops and the red light district was a hoot! Also the female population was awesome to look at as most were in great shape cause they all rode bikes everywhere, blond blue eyes...and the Heineken brewry was nice too. Dang that was a long time ago!