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Talks begin to form a minority liberal-conservative administration with the informal backing of the anti-immigrant party of Geert Wilders. The Netherlands is moving closer...

For many Europeans, August is a period of rest from politics. But in certain parts of the European Union, the political merry-go-round will continue to spin. The Netherlands

The liberal People's Party for Freedom (VVD) emerged as the largest party after Dutch elections on Wednesday, according to initial unofficial results this morning

Liberal Democrats lead in the opinion polls, while Balkenende is unlikely to make up ground on rivals. If poll predictions are accurate, Dutch voters will shift their...

Success of the populist politician in two large cities sets alarm bells ringing in the Netherlands' mainstream parties. The party of the populist anti-immigrant politician...

Geert Wilders' PVV set to be the second biggest Dutch party in the European Parliament. The far-right party led by Geert Wilders, which has campaigned against the...

Wouter Bos was the loser who eventually won. For months he had been nicknamed ‘the next prime minister of the Netherlands', but in the 2006 election his Partij van de...

The results of last week's elections in the Netherlands have confirmed a trend among European voters in recent months. Both the ruling Christian Democrats (CDA) and the...

EXIT polls last night indicated that murdered politician Pim Fortuyn's party was on course to win 26 seats in the Netherlands general election, with the conservative...

FRITS Bolkestein will be unusual among the new intake of European Commissioners, assuming incoming President Romano Prodi agrees to give him a place on the team. This is a...

IF DUTCH Prime Minister Wim Kok manages to win even half the 590 million euro he wants back from the EU, this will be largely down to the efforts of a 41-year-old ministerial...

FOR better or for worse, Jozias van Aartsen cannot help but be seen as Frits Bolkestein's representative on earth. Once again, following the long negotiations to put...

GERRIT Zalm is not a politician, or so he would have you believe. The man who will chair meetings of EU finance ministers between now and June's summit in Amsterdam likes...

SOME men are born into foreign affairs, some achieve influence in foreign affairs and some have foreign affairs thrust upon them. Hans van Mierlo, the man who will oversee...