US EditionDutch Government Falls After Wilders Withdraws Over Asylum Plan
- The Dutch government collapsed after the far-right Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders withdrew his party from the ruling coalition over disagreements on immigration policy.
- Wilders wanted his coalition partners to agree to his 10-point plan that includes using the military to seal borders, closing asylum centers, and returning all Syrian asylum seekers.
- Prime Minister Dick Schoof will likely offer the cabinet's resignation to King Willem-Alexander, as ministers convene for an emergency meeting.
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The four-party coalition in The Hague is history. Right-wing populist Geert Wilders' PVV presented plans a week ago for a significant tightening of asylum law and linked the government's continued existence to its adoption. However, the three coalition partners did not give in to the ultimatum. After a crisis meeting on Tuesday, the PVV called its ministers, Prime Minister Schoof resigned. Europe's press analyses and looks ahead.
Far-Right Party Withdraws from Netherlands Ruling Coalition, Toppling Government
The government of the Netherlands has collapsed after Geert Wilders withdrew his far-right Party for Freedom from the ruling coalition over other parties’ refusal to back Wilders’s “strictest asylum policy ever.” Wilders’s plan proposed halting the asylum process and pausing the reunification of families whose members have been granted refugee status. Opposition parties are calling for fresh elections. Meanwhile, Poland’s liberal Prime Minister …
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