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Rob Jetten, leader of the center-left D66 party, speaks on stage during exit poll results an election venue during a general election in Leiden, Netherlands, October 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
October 30, 2025, 10:05 am
Dutch centrist party makes huge jump as support for far-right Wilders drops in election
Though parties neck-and-neck in results, D66 head Rob Jetten seen as likely to form government, since all mainstream factions are shunning Wilders’s Freedom Party
By Bart H. Meijer, Toby Sterling and Anthony Deutsch
A woman holds a sheet of candidates as she prepares to vote at a polling station during general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, October 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
October 29, 2025, 7:09 pm
Dutch vote in snap election seen as test for Europe’s far right
Polls suggest anti-immigrant firebrand Geert Wilders could come out on top, but all mainstream parties have ruled out working with him, preventing him from becoming prime minister
By Richard Carter and Stéphanie HAMEL
Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders talks to the media after pulling his party out of the four-party Dutch coalition in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
June 3, 2025, 10:46 pm
Dutch government collapses after far-right leader Geert Wilders quits coalition
Wilders pulls out of shaky four-party coalition over immigration row, ushering in period of uncertainty with elections unlikely to be held before end of summer break
By Richard Carter
Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders talks to the media after pulling his party out of the four-party Dutch coalition in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
June 3, 2025, 12:25 pm
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders quits coalition, likely leading to elections
In late May, PVV party head said his ‘patience was up’ with Dutch PM Dick Schoof, demanding faster implementation of ‘strictest-ever immigration policy’ promised in coalition deal
By Richard Carter
Left to Right: US House Speaker Mike Johnson, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida, January 27, 2025 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein); Dutch politician Geert Wilders,at the high security court at Schiphol, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2024 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong); US Senator Chris Coons speaks during the Democratic National Convention, August 19, 2024 in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
February 5, 2025, 12:03 pm
‘He’s lost it’: Trump call to take over Gaza blasted by Democrats, boosted by loyalists
US president’s domestic opposition condemns plan as ‘ethnic cleansing by another name’; Dutch far-right leader Wilders praises idea, says Gazans can ‘move to Jordan’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders is honored as he visits the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 10, 2024, 11:42 am
In Israel, hard-right pro-Israel Dutch lawmaker Wilders meets, lauds Netanyahu
During whirlwind visit, Wilders meets president and attends Knesset session, is showered with praise for support of Israel
By ToI Staff
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema addresses an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council on November 12, 2024, days after mass violence against Israeli tourists following a soccer game in the Dutch capital. (Nick Gammon/AFP)
November 18, 2024, 6:40 pm
Amsterdam mayor regrets use of word ‘pogrom’ to describe attacks on Israelis
Femkle Halsema says Israeli government and Dutch politicians use term as ‘propaganda’ to discriminate against Dutch Muslims, says Israeli fans also behaved violently
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Nicolien van Vroonhoven of the NSC party arrives at the official residence of Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in The Hague, Netherlands, November 15, 2024, for crisis talks after the government's assessment that antisemitism was behind last week's violence after the soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)
November 15, 2024, 10:32 pm
Dutch gov’t avoids collapse over handling of antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans
After Nora Achahbar quits in protest of ‘racist’ comments blaming Moroccan immigrants for violence against Tel Aviv fans, PM says deal reached for her party to stay in coalition
By Agencies
Police forces leave the Dam square after shutting down a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at the square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
November 15, 2024, 3:17 pm
Dutch government says it needs ‘more time’ to implement antisemitism strategy
Right-wing politicians call for those who attacked Israelis in Amsterdam to be deported; opposition says rhetoric is ‘pouring oil on the fire’
By AFP
Dutch MP Geert Wilders arrives to attend a meeting of the 'Patriots for Europe' far-right European Parliament group in Brussels on October 17, 2024. (François Walschaerts/AFP)
November 13, 2024, 5:25 pm
Hard-right Dutch MP calls to deport ‘Moroccans’ involved in assaults on Jews
Head of anti-immigrant party says ‘Muslims hunted Jews on the streets of Amsterdam,’ urges they be prosecuted on terror charges; comments spark parliamentary backlash
By AP and ToI Staff
People welcome Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans as they arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport on a flight from Amsterdam, where Israeli soccer fans were attacked following a match between the club and Ajax Amsterdam, November 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 10, 2024, 12:54 am
Israel says wave of violence in Amsterdam ‘over,’ but journalists report harassment
Kan TV says group of hostile youths trailed its team after it reported from Dam Square, requiring police escort; Dutch report says nobody who took part in attacks has been arrested
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans who flew on El Al rescue flight from Amsterdam arrive at Ben Gurion international airport, near Tel Aviv, November 8, 2024. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
November 9, 2024, 2:17 pm
Dutch government probing missed Israeli warnings ahead of Amsterdam ‘pogrom’
Official says Mossad asked local authorities to step up security at stadium, hotels after seeing social media ‘flare-up’; minister vows to find every attacker; 59 of 63 suspects freed
By ToI Staff
Netherlands' King Willem Alexander, second right, tours the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 10, 2024. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool Photo via AP)
November 8, 2024, 4:33 pm
Dutch king: ‘We failed the Jewish community during WWII, last night we failed again’
EU leaders, UN official describe assaults on Israeli soccer fans as ‘vile’ and ‘deeply shameful’; Amsterdam mayor: ‘Men on scooters crisscrossed the city looking for Israeli fans’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Screenshot from a video shows violence on the streets of Amsterdam in which Israelis were attacked by anti-Israel gangs on November 8, 2024. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 8, 2024, 9:12 am
Israel decries ‘pogrom’ in Amsterdam as soccer fans come under attack by rioters
All Israelis accounted hours after 10 injured, many besieged in hotels as gangs of hooligans — apparently Muslims and Arabs — ambush, beat Israelis after game
By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, takes his seat at the high-security court at Schiphol, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2024. (Peter Dejong/AP)
September 2, 2024, 7:01 pm
Pakistanis tried for incitement to kill Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders
High-security court tries in absentia religious leader Muhammed Ashraf Jalali and Saad Hussain Rizvi, head of hardline TLP party
By Agencies
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