Netherlands
Netherlands budget cuts hit social services
By Dietmar Henning, July 12, 2011
Holland’s right-wing ruling parties are embarking on draconian cuts in social benefits and cultural services, while providing a platform for the anti-immigrant racist, Geert Wilders.
Regional elections in the Netherlands: Geert Wilders’s PVV enters the Senate
By Elisabeth Zimmermann, March 15, 2011
Following the regional elections held on 2 March the ultra-right, anti-Islamic party of Geert Wilders’s PVV entered the Dutch Senate for the first time.
New government coalition in the Netherlands
By Dietmar Henning, October 9, 2010
The right-wing populist and racist politician Geert Wilders will play a major role in government policy in the Netherlands.
Geert Wilders—kingmaker in the Dutch political crisis
By Stefan Steinberg, September 9, 2010
As talks on a government coalition collapse, far-right Geert Wilders is emerging as the kingmaker in Dutch politics.
Far-right party emerges as power broker behind new Netherlands government
By Sven Heymann, August 12, 2010
The new Dutch government will be supported by the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) of Gert Wilders.
Right-wing shift in Dutch elections
By Peter Schwarz, June 12, 2010
After Hungary and the UK, the Netherlands is the third significant European Union country where right-wing parties have emerged as election winners in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the 1930s.
Netherlands: Racist Geert Wilders increases his vote in municipal elections
By Dietmar Henning, March 8, 2010
The ruling class is grooming Wilders and his PVV in order to fill the political vacuum that has developed in recent years and enforce violent attacks on the entire working class.
Dutch government collapses over military deployment in Afghanistan
By Stefan Steinberg, February 22, 2010
The collapse of the Dutch government represents a serious blow to the US administration’s military strategy in Afghanistan.
Dutch inquiry finds Iraq war illegal
By Ann Talbot, January 22, 2010
A Dutch commission of inquiry has concluded that the US-led 2003 Iraq war was illegal under international law.
Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter
By Ann Talbot, January 22, 2010
The Davids Commission, which investigated the role of the Netherlands in the 2003 Iraq war, has declared that the war was illegal.
UK government deports Dutch politician
By Niall Green, February 17, 2009
The UK government has banned right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders from Britain. Wilders is a racist provocateur who is seeking to whip up anti-Muslim chauvinism. Wilders’s deportation, however, is an attack on, not a defence of, democratic rights.
Benelux countries intervene to bail out Fortis
The rise and fall of Fortis
By Stephan Steinberg, October 1, 2008
Stock markets across Europe tumbled on Monday following the news that leading banks across the continent were facing collapse.
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