European elections: the right turn begins
In the Netherlands, the first EU country to vote, exit polls indicate sweeping gains for Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders.
In the Netherlands, the first EU country to vote, exit polls indicate sweeping gains for Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders.
Wilders will be conscious of how the Italian elections played out last year for prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with whom he shares a certain ideological affinity.
Voters in the Netherlands have handed current Prime Minister Mark Rutte a resounding victory over far-right, anti-EU firebrand Geert Wilders in national elections. Rutte’s centre-right
This Wednesday, Dutch citizens will go to the polls in a general election that will take the temperature not just of the Netherlands, but of the EU.
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