When Dutch voters go to the polls this week, the outcome is likely to be a fractured parliament with no party close to a majority. That will mean lengthy coalition haggling, leaving the country stuck with a caretaker government for some time.
In the meantime, there’s a pressing to-do list that not only covers familiar domestic concerns like housing and the cost of living for consumers, regulation and uncertainty for businesses — but also a crisis with damaging global ramifications.
