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Dutch vote relief for EU?

Investors who had been nervous about the prospect of the far right winning the election in the Netherlands have welcomed the victory of the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party, which beat the party led by the anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders.

He had campaigned on promises to close borders to migrants from Muslim nations and take the Netherlands out of the European Union and with other elections scheduled in Europe this year fears about a break up of the EU were growing stronger.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Rob Young has been listening to the views of ordinary Dutch people and experts in Amsterdam.

(Picture: View of a canal in Amsterdam. Copyright Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.)

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