Geert Wilders
Dutch Finance minister Jan Kees de Jager (C) and Prime Minister Mark Rutte (R) look at PVV-party leader Geert Wilders as they attend a debate in the parliament in The Hague about the agreement about budget cuts on April 26, 2012. The Dutch parliament today reached agreement on an austerity programme demanded by the EU, parliamentary group leaders said, days after the government collapsed over the measures.
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Dutch lawmaker to try to nix bailout fund in court
-- Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says he will file a lawsuit to block the Netherlands from ratifying the permanent European bailout fund.Wilders, leader of the Netherlands' third-largest political party, forced the collapse of the all-conservative government Read more »
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Major Dutch party backs euro exit
-- Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders has called for the country to abandon the euro and reintroduce the guilder, even as he meets with the Cabinet to discuss a new package of spending cuts and tax increases to comply with European budget deficit rules.Via Read more »
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Ruling due Friday in Wilders' anti-ESM suit
On Friday, a court in the Hague will rule on a lawsuit brought by Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders. That suit aims to stop Dutch participation in the European Stability Mechanism ESM. Geert Wilders believes the decision about whether the Netherlands wi from Expatica Read more »
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Rise of left in Netherlands could cost Merkel another key ally
A NEW poll in the Netherlands shows that Geert Wilders’ right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) has outstripped caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte’s Liberals for the first time – and would become the second-largest party in the country if an election were held t from Irish Times Read more »
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Spokesperson Sharia4Holland arrested
Amsterdam police on Sunday arrested the spokesperson of the Islamist group Sharia4Holland on charges of making death threats against Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders. Police said Mr Wilders had filed a report against the spokesperson who in a speech he from Expatica Read more »
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Freedom Party overtakes VVD in opinion poll
The Freedom Party PVV is ahead of the conservative VVD in the latest poll by Maurice de Hond. Apparently if there were an election now, Geert Wilders' Freedom Party would win 25 seats in parliament, with caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte's VVD right be from Expatica Read more »
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Book Explains Clearly Why U.S. Shouldn't Kowtow To Islam
Every time I see Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders interact with America, I am struck anew by how deeply he confounds us. We aren't used to hearing the truth, particularly about Islam, expressed by a politician -- of all people! -- who not onl from Town Hall Read more »
