(AP) The center-right lawmaker whose new party is riding so high in polls ahead of next week’s Dutch election that he could become a kingmaker in coalition talks said Thursday that he has fundamental differences with anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, whose party […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders wants to be part of the next Cabinet, and he is willing to make concessions to make that happen, also when it comes to his anti-Islam rhetoric. “There are more important priorities,” Wilders said in an […]
(AP) It is a familiar sight in this remote rural town: a migrant in a headscarf and thick winter coat carrying her belongings to the overcrowded reception center as a storm brews over the flat landscape. For many here and across this […]
(European Conservative) The revelation that a 64-year-old Arabic translator and senior counterterrorism official within the Dutch intelligence services has been potentially leaking sensitive information to Morocco is causing a political storm in the Netherlands in the latest espionage scandal involving the North […]
(Dutch News) The right-wing liberal party VVD and farmers’ party BBB have cut their ties with a convicted terrorist who became an academic and adviser on deradicalisation. The VVD cancelled the membership of Soumaya Sahla after allegations surfaced that she had “pilfered” […]
(NL Times) Geert Wilders got a prominent place in DENK’s election program published on Tuesday. On the fourth page of the 104-page document, the PVV leader is depicted behind bars with the text: severely punish Muslim hatred. The message is part of […]
(Euractiv) Dutch migrant party DENK boycotted a commemorative event in parliament for the victims of the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel after Palestinian victims were not included. Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD/Renew) invited Israeli Ambassador Modi Ephraim to the event, […]
(National-UAE) A woman who was a child refugee from Turkey has promised to address voter fears over excessive migration if she is elected prime minister of the Netherlands. Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius has a realistic shot at power after winning the leadership of departing […]
(NL Times) PVV party leader Geert Wilders wants to form a majority government again after years in opposition, he said in an interview with De Telegraaf. “It’s a nice thing for me to be involved in limiting the influx of asylum. It’s […]
(NL Times) The court in The Hague sentenced the former Pakistani cricket player Khalid Latif to 12 years in prison for incitement to murder PVV leader Geert Wilders. The 37-year-old Pakistani man posted a video online in 2018 offering around 21,000 euros […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded on Tuesday a 12-year prison sentence for 37-year-old Pakistani cricket player Khalid Latif, who is accused of offering 21,000 euros in 2018 for the murder of the Dutch MP and PVV leader Geert Wilders. […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders will go to court on Tuesday to attend the trial against 37-year-old Pakistani cricket player Khalid Latif. According to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), Latif offered 21,000 euros for the parliamentarian’s murder via a video posted […]
(AFP) A Dutch far-right activist trampled on and tore up a copy of the Koran at a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in The Hague on Friday, infuriating dozens of counter-protesters. The Dutch government had already condemned the holding of the demonstration […]
(Dutch News) An MP for the Dutch free-market liberal party VVD has said that the time is right to potentially link up with Geert Wilders’s far-right PVV in a new cabinet. Ruben Brekelmans said in an interview with EW magazine that the party still […]
(AFP) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s coalition government collapsed Friday over “insurmountable” differences on how to tackle migration, with elections expected in November. Rutte, 56, the Netherlands’ longest-serving leader and one of Europe’s most experienced politicians, said days of crisis talks between […]
(AFP) A Dutch man will appear in court on insult charges after tearing up a Koran outside parliament and likening Islam’s holy book to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” prosecutors said Tuesday. Edwin Wagensveld, 54, who heads the Netherlands’s chapter of the German anti-Islam […]
(GB News) An Islamist cleric who said critics of the Prophet Mohammed should have their heads “chopped off” has been allowed into the UK to speak at an event. Sick Enayet Ullah Abbasi previously slammed the late Queen Elizabeth II for endorsing […]
(Daily Sabah) Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, known for his anti-migrant and Islamophobic stance, urged Turks living in the Netherlands who voted for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to leave the country after Sunday’s elections. “I hope that all Turks in the Netherlands […]
(Dutch News) Eindhoven cinema LAB-1 has stopped selling tickets for a controversial Indian film because its staff are being harassed. The cinema has been showing The Kerala Story, about radical Muslim women, for the past two weeks but, a spokesman told broadcaster NOS, cinema […]
(NL Times) The police received a record number of reports from politicians being threatened in 2022. The Team Threatened Politicians (TBP) of the police in The [Hague] received 1,125 reports of threats and incitement addressed to parliamentarians and government officials, almost two […]
(Dutch News) The public prosecution department has asked Pakistan to cooperate in its efforts to try a 37-year-old man for offering a €21,000 reward for the murder of far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders five years ago. The department has asked the Pakistan […]
(Eindhoven News) The seven Eindhoven terror suspects who are still in custody may await their trial in freedom. This was decided by the judge on Thursday during a pre-trial hearing in the secure court at Schiphol. Two other suspects were previously allowed […]
(Brussels Times) The mayors of Molenbeek, Anderlecht, Schaerbeek and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode have forbidden a Flemish and a Dutch far-right politician, both known for their anti-immigrant stance, from visiting their municipalities on Friday. On 26 April, Flemish far-right Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter announced […]
(NL Times) The party leaders of Denk and PVV are furious about a series of secret reports from the National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism (NCTV), which qualified them as polarizing political parties. Party leaders Farid Azarkan (Denk) and Geert Wilders (PVV) […]
(NL Times) For years, national counter-terrorism coordinator NCTV reported on “polarising” political parties in confidential reports to municipalities, police, ministries, and foreign intelligence services, NRC reports based on 159 internal reports received through the Open Government (Public Access) Act. In some reports, […]
(Euronews) Twitter says it suspended Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders “in error” after reports that he had violated the platform’s rules on hate speech. The social network admitted it had “temporarily restricted” Wilders’ access to his account on Monday. The move came […]
(NL Times) VVD party leader in the Tweede Kamer Sophie Hermans said she feels “uncomfortable” with the role that Soumaya Sahla, convicted of illegal possession of weapons and membership of a terrorist organization, is playing within the party. Sahla belonged to the […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders clashed with multiple parties in a parliamentary debate on Tuesday, including about VVD adviser Soumaya Sahla and a tweet in which he suggested that Dilan Yeşilgöz’s appointment as justice minister will jeopardize his security. Soumaya Sahla […]
(NL Times) The new justice minister, Dilan Yeşilgöz, still has not received a response from PVV leader Geert Wilders, after she tried to call him about a tweet in which he critically mentioned her Turkish-Kurdish origin. “A VVD member of Turkish descent at […]
(NL Times) Eight men from Eindhoven suspected of preparing a terrorist attack talked about killing Mark Rutte and Geert Wilders, among others. They wanted to “pop them in the head” or “kidnap and behead the politicians during a live stream,” said the […]
(Dutch News) The ruling VVD has sided with far-right opposition parties, and the Socialists, to pass a motion banning local council wardens from wearing headscarves. The motion was drawn up by the anti-immigration PVV following the news that Utrecht city council is […]
(Dutch News) Judges will decide next week if nine young men from Eindhoven should remain in custody while police continue to investigate them for possible terrorist offences. The nine were, according to the public prosecution department, planning to launch a terrorist attack, […]
(NL Times) Conversations intercepted by domestic intelligence service AIVD led to the arrests of nine men in Eindhoven on allegations that they planned to carry out a terrorist attack. The men, all Dutch citizens, discussed the possibility of targeting Prime Minister Mark […]
(NL Times) The nine terrorist suspects arrested in Eindhoven one week ago did not have a concrete plan to attack politicians, lawyer of two of the suspect[s] Peter Plasman said. The suspects are alleged to have prepared to target Prime Minister Mark […]
(NL Times) Prime Minister Mark Rutte was the apparent target of a terrorist plot crafted by ISIS sympathizers, which prompted the arrests this week of nine men in Eindhoven. They were also considering attacks on PVV leader Geert Wilders and FvD leader Thierry […]
(Dutch News) The Hague city councillor Arnoud van Doorn was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of planning to kill prime minister Mark Rutte, the AD reported on Tuesday afternoon. Van Doorn, a former councillor for the far-right PVV who went on to […]
(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he […]
(NL Times) The Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld a guilty verdict against PVV leader Geert Wilders on Tuesday for inciting hatred and violence against a group of people. The verdict brings the case against the leader of the right-wing nationalist political […]
(Morocco World News) Dutch political party DENK spoke with Morocco World News to explain how they want to do things differently and what sets them apart. Amid turbulent times in Europe, the Netherlands is organizing a national parliamentary election on March 17. […]
(Politico) If Dutch politicians and voters thought that Geert Wilders had faded into near-obscurity since the last election, they were dead wrong. For 15 years, the far-right firebrand was everywhere, spreading his anti-Islam, anti-immigration, anti-EU message and doing increasingly well at the […]
(NL Times) The main focus of the election program for Geert Wilders’ PVV is still to close mosques and Islamic schools, ban the Koran, and ban Dutch people with dual nationality from voting or acting as a politician in the Netherlands, NU.nl […]
(AFP) Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders has said he has no regrets and is ready to “step up” his campaigning against immigration, despite the coronavirus set to dominate next week’s general election. Once dubbed the “Dutch Trump” for his bleached-blonde hair and […]
(NL Times) Junaid I. was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the appeals court for threatening an attack on PVV leader Geert Wilders in 2018 after the far-right politician announced a contest for the best cartoon featuring the prophet Muhammad. The […]
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
(NL Times) The Freedom Party (PVV) presented its election program on Saturday. The party’s points of view are explained in over 50 pages, with keywords such as culture and traditions, care and safety, and climate realism. In the preface, the party leader […]
(AFP) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Tuesday weighed in [on] a growing spat between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a Dutch anti-Islam MP, whom the Turkish leader has accused of defamation over a cartoon drawing. Erdogan filed a complaint this week […]
(Anadolu) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday lodged a criminal complaint against Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over an insulting tweet. The president’s lawyer Huseyin Aydin filed the complaint over Wilders’ insulting contents targeting Erdogan. In a criminal complaint submitted to […]
(AFP) Turkey on Tuesday accused French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo of “cultural racism” over a front-page cartoon for its latest edition that mocks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday hit back at Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over an insulting cartoon he shared. “Fascism is not in our book, it’s in your book. Social justice is in our book,” Erdogan said at a […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders sparked outrage on social media with a tweet about coronavirus patients with a non-Western background. According to Wilders, the treatments of “Henk and Ingrid” are being postponed, because ICU beds are occupied by “Mohamed and Fatima” […]
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