To anyone paying attention to the tone of Dutch politics or the mood across Europe, the outcome of the Dutch referendum on the association agreement between the EU and Ukraine — in which 61 percent voted No — did not come as a surprise.
If elections were held in the Netherlands today, polls show Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom — equally opposed to the EU and immigrants — would become the country’s most influential political party. Wilders, of course, supported the referendum and campaigned for a No-vote. So did the Socialist Party (SP) and the Party for the Animals (PvdD), who …read more
Source: European Voice
