Almost two-thirds of voters in the Netherlands rejected closer EU links with Ukraine. The result will only boost anti-EU campaigns both there and in BritainIf you believe that the big divide in politics today is no longer between left and right, but between a post-ideological establishment on the one hand and a “fringe” grown much too large to be labelled as such on the other, then this week’s referendum result in the Netherlands offers a perfect illustration.Yet the set-up, backstory and legal status of the referendum is far too confusing for the result to be chalked up simply as a …read more
Source: The Guardian
