Wilders remains an outsider despite Dutch election ‘victory’

Posted on November 24, 2023 by admin978

Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration and anti-Islam ‘Party for Freedom’ (PVV), is being portrayed as the ‘winner’ of this week’s Dutch general election. And in a sense he is, Continue Reading →

Winners and losers as Europe’s populist tide ebbs and flows

Posted on May 27, 2019 by admin978

While Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party celebrated big victories in this week’s European elections, the much-advertised populist breakthrough proved to be at best a patchy affair. Predictably the big populist Continue Reading →

Big gains for Farage on mixed night for Europe’s ‘populists’

Posted on May 27, 2019 by admin978

British voters decisively rejected the political establishment at the European elections. Results announced overnight showed that Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party took 32% of the vote and 28 MEPs, while Continue Reading →

Modest gains for Dutch anti-Islamist Wilders

Posted on March 15, 2017 by admin978

Votes are still being counted in today’s Dutch general election, but it seems that Geert Wilders, the anti-Islamic activist seen by some (though not H&D) as part of Europe’s “far Continue Reading →