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Geert Wilders of the far-right PVV party
XENOPHOBIA and militarism will be the defining themes of the incoming Netherlands coalition government, with a four-party agreement struck today.
The far-right Party of Freedom headed by Islamophobic rabble-rouser Geert Wilders will be the biggest party in the new government, though it is not yet clear who will be prime minister, a post Mr Wilders has agreed not to seek.
But the “Hope, Courage and Pride” agreement sets out policies the next administration — formed with the conservative VVD of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the traditionalist New Social Contract and the agrarian-nationalist Farmer-Citizen Movement — will pursue.
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY