IT COULD turn out to be one of the great ironies of Dutch politics that the very love of consensus on which its modern-day coalition governments are based becomes the door through which populist right-wing parties gain a permanent foothold – not just in the Netherlands but across Europe as well.
While the far right in Holland may be synonymous with Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV), Wilders’s political ambitions stretch far beyond the modest boundaries of the Netherlands – as the pan-European International Freedom Alliance, which he set up last year, illustrates. [The Irish Times] Read more
