One week from the Dutch elections, the leader of the mainstream conservative party has demanded all school children sing and “respect” the national anthem, in a sign that populist Geert Wilders is pulling political discourse to the right.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) that is just 11 days away from potentially winning the Dutch general election has hit out at so-called “hate preachers” who have used their religious influence to call on their followers
Dutch anti-mass migration firebrand Geert Wilders has slammed the European Parliament after it voted to lift parliamentary immunity from Front National leader and MEP Marine Le Pen, leaving her exposed to prosecution and imprisonment just weeks before the French presidential elections.
Islam is a totalitarian ideology, not a religion, and therefore a Dutch constitutional commitment to freedom of religion shouldn’t apply to it, Geert Wilders has said.
An overwhelming number of Dutch voters say immigration is one of their top concerns ahead of March’s parliamentary election.
The Dutch parliament is to hold an inquiry on whether it could ditch euro, amid growing scepticism of the European single currency.
The leader of the poll-topping Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, has announced the suspension of his campaign with less than three weeks to go before his nation’s general election after the discovery of a possible mole in his security
A Dutch security official responsible for protecting anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has been detained on suspicion of leaking classified information, a police spokesman said Wednesday, sparking fears for the safety of the right wing populist lawmaker who for years has lived amid tight security.
The European Commission has denied claims its president, Jean-Claude Juncker, could stand down in weeks, as reports emerge he is about to launch a controversial new push for more European Union (EU) integration.
Mainstream media outlets in Britain such as the BBC and the Observer have falsely implied that poll-topping, populist firebrand Geert Wilders made an attack on all Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands when he blasted foreign criminals, in headlines on their
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker who is at the vanguard of a wave of European far-right populists aiming to take power at elections this year, is pushing ahead with his platform to “de-Islamisize” the Netherlands, despite lawyers saying it could breach the Dutch constitution.
(REUTERS) – Campaigning for the Dutch election kicks off on Wednesday with anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders frontrunner in a vote that will test the anti-establishment sentiment that swept Britain out of the European Union and Donald Trump into the U.S. presidency.
In a story about Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Politico smeared Breitbart Senior Editor MILO as an “alt-right journalist.”
THE HAGUE (AFP) – Major Dutch corporations including Shell, Unilever, Philips and dairy produce giant FrieslandCampina have joined forces to showcase national talents in a bid to roll back gloom and populism, the Dutch press reported Saturday. A PR campaign — whose
Poll-leading Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who stands a chance of being the Netherlands’ next prime minister, has said the demise of the European Union (EU) is now “irreversible” and that attempts by the bloc to punish the UK for leaving would backfire.
The upper house of the Dutch parliament has passed a bill that would strip jihadists of their Dutch citizenship, designating them “undesirable aliens”, and preventing them from returning to the Netherlands or any other Schengen country.
A proposed advertisement for Geert Wilders’s Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) would see Rotterdam trams wrapped with “Stop Islam” stickers as the nation prepares to vote in the 2017 general election.
PARIS (AP) — In Donald Trump, Europe’s populist leaders think they have found a champion.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders clashed in the Dutch Parliament Tuesday with the foreign minister over U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban for people from seven Muslim nations.
While Europe’s socialist leaders predictably denounced President Trump’s recent temporary ban on new refugees from a list of countries, rising populist leaders praised him as a model for what Europe should be doing. Dutch populist Geert Wilders said in a
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) broke through the historic 20,000 mark to close at 20,007, as the “Trump Trade” rally drove world stock prices higher on January 25.
Just one day after polls which gave Geert Wilders’s insurgent populist party a nine-point lead on the ruling conservatives, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has drifted again politically closer to the rival he last week ruled out a coalition with.
Geert Wilders has predicted Marine le Pen will be the next French President as he praised newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and called for patriots to “make Europe great again” in a speech on Saturday. Speaking at the Europe of
Massive protests are being expected ahead of the populist European Union Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group’s conference in the German city of Koblenz this weekend. The ENF meeting will see many of the star politicians of the various
They are the would-be Donald Trumps of Europe and they are coming together in a bid to gain influence in some of the continent’s most powerful nations.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch firebrand populist Geert Wilders is accusing Prime Minister Mark Rutte of behaving like a “dictator” by ruling out a coalition with Wilders’ Party for Freedom after national elections on March 15.
Yesterday, the Islamic State claimed the Berlin terror attack of Monday evening, in which twelve people were killed with a truck at a Christmas market. The killer managed to escape. However, in the truck the police found identity papers belonging
The party of populist anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders has risen strongly in the polls since the lawmaker was tried and convicted of discrimination, according to a survey published Sunday.
Asked about the news that a Dutch court has convicted populist lawmaker Geert Wilders of “inciting discrimination,” former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday that he sees the trial and verdict as “part of a phenomenon we see throughout the West of people who are really trying to suppress speech.”
Speaking out in a recorded message released in English and Dutch after his trial in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders has blasted the court for convicting him, remarking that they have also convicted by-proxy millions of his fellow countrymen as well.
Nigel Farage and Donald Trump are “populists and demagogues” using tactics comparable to Islamic State (IS), and the success of populism in 2016 echoes “fascist rhetoric”, the United Nation’s rights chief has said.
A Dutch court convicted populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders of hate speech Friday at the end of a trial he branded a politically motivated “charade” that endangered freedom of speech.
Populist Dutch MP Geert Wilders will learn his fate Friday when judges hand down their verdict in his closely watched hate speech trial, just over three months ahead of crucial parliamentary elections.
(AFP) – Dutch MPs on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to ban the Islamic full-face burqa from some public places such as schools and hospitals, the latest such move in a European country.
Nigel Farage has said Brexit was the “inspiration” for the election of Donald Trump and “directly led to the establishment getting beaten” in the U.S., and that the success of UKIP is reviving populist movement across Europe.
From the Gatestone Institute, the final court statement of Freedom Party Geert Wilders: Mr. President, Members of the Court, When I decided to address you here today, by making a final statement in this trial against freedom of speech, many
A new survey has revealed a majority of voters support populist policies in France and elsewhere in Europe, but in Germany populism may have an uphill battle.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), has said that the outcome of his “hate speech” trial could show signs of tyranny forming in the Dutch establishment.
Congratulations America! Yesterday, in the biggest democracy on earth, we witnessed a political revolution. The American people sent a powerful message to the world: Enough is enough, we want to be free again, we want to be great again! Against
The trial of popular anti-Islamisation politician Geert Wilders for “inciting hatred” began Monday with the MP vowing not to attend, but rather focus on his work in the parliament.
