“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the most senior of the leaders at the really in the Spanish capital. “We’re facing a global tipping point,” said France’s … Read more
Achahbar told her colleagues earlier Friday that she was quitting over alleged racist comments made by other ministers during a Cabinet meeting Monday to discuss violence in Amsterdam involving locals and Israeli football fans last week, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS. She released a statement publicly confirming her resignation shortly after Friday night’s Cabinet crisis meeting. … Read more
The Netherlands’ government has been comprised of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) and the NSC since July. But the coalition has been beset by infighting over how to respond to the Amsterdam clashes, with anti-immigrant PVV leader Geert Wilders — … Read more
“I will not be going to Azerbaijan next week for the U.N. Climate Conference COP29. Due to the major social impact of the events of last Thursday night in Amsterdam, I will remain in the Netherlands,” Schoof wrote on X on Saturday. The Netherlands will instead be represented by its climate envoy, Jaime Bourbon de … Read more
Local authorities in Amsterdam issued an emergency order declaring the Dutch capital a “high-risk security area” following attacks on Israeli football supporters on Thursday night. The emergency measures, which also cover the Amstelveen area, include enabling “preventive searches,” a ban on demonstrations and increased police presence. The imposition of the measures comes after supporters of … Read more
“I’m aiming for the strictest asylum policy ever,” Faber said in a video message, citing bottlenecks in housing, health care and education as reasons to do so. The plan, she said, is to “legally declare an asylum crisis, which will allow me to take measures to combat [it].” Such an emergency law would allow the … Read more
The court on Wednesday convicted six of the nine men on various charges after a grinding three-year trial. It did not hand down a life sentence to the three main suspects, instead sentencing two of them to 28 years in prison and the other to 26 years. A seventh man was also sentenced to just … Read more
The tensions could further divide the Renew parliamentary faction at a time when it risks losing its status as kingmaker, with polls suggesting that parties to the right will gain seats. Hayer is campaigning against Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in France, a party whose MEPs will sit with Wilders’ lawmakers in the next … Read more
Radical right-wing voters are all too often cast as old, white men, said De Voogd. “In part, that’s shifting; and in part, that image has never been true,” he said. According to the researcher, far-right voters typically fall into three broad categories: There are conservative voters, who previously backed Christian parties or the liberals. Then … Read more
The deal still needs the endorsement of all four parties’ parliamentary factions. And the choice of a new prime minister could also still throw a last-minute spanner in the works. The announcement caps nearly six months of fraught talks between the four parties, which at one point saw the leader of the NSC walk away … Read more
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