Mark Rutte

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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Thursday, June 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

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"I stand here in the hope that parties in this chamber are prepared ... to do what is necessary to pull the Netherlands through these difficult economic times," caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte tells Parliament on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the free-market Liberal Party waits June 7, 2010, for the start of a televised election debate at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Associated Press)

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New Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wields the gavel after receiving it from his predecessor, Jan Peter Balkenende, in The Hague on Thursday. Mr. Rutte's minority government pledged budgetary austerity and a crackdown on immigration. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** VVD Party leader Mark Rutte casts his ballot in the general election in The Hague on June 9, 2010. (Associated Press)

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The Netherlands' center-right Liberal Party, led by Mark Rutte, shown in this file photo casting his ballot in general elections June 9, 2010, is in talks to forge a coalition for a three-party government with Maxime Verhagen's Christian Democratic Appeal, backed by the outside support of Geert Wilders's anti-Islam Freedom Party. (AP Photo/Evert-Jan Daniels)