US EditionDutch Prime Minister Schoof steps down after Wilders quits coalition
- Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced the collapse of the ruling coalition on June 3, 2025, in The Hague after Geert Wilders withdrew his party's ministers.
- The collapse followed Wilders' demand for a stricter migration crackdown, which coalition partners rejected despite supporting tougher controls.
- Wilders posted on X that he pulled his Party for Freedom ministers out due to slow action on his 10-point plan, including military border guards and asylum rejection.
- Wilders stated that he supported implementing the strictest asylum measures, not causing the collapse of the Dutch government, while Schoof described the government's fall as both needless and irresponsible.
- Schoof's caretaker administration will govern until new elections occur, despite the upcoming NATO summit hosted by the Netherlands in three weeks.
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Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, thanked Wilders for his support of the Jewish state, sharing translated footage of his remarks on X on Thursday. By Akiva Van Koningsveld, JNS “If Jerusalem falls, Athens, Paris or Amsterdam are next,” Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders declared on Wednesday, speaking during a parliament session following the fall of his coalition government. The Israel Defense…
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On Tuesday, a coalition government in the Netherlands collapsed. The trigger? Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Party of Freedom (PVV) and a coalition partner, demanded new restrictions on the government’s grant of asylum to migrants. When these weren’t met, he pulled his party from the governing coalition.Elsewhere in Europe, anti-immigration frustrations have fueled the rising political fortunes of nativist parties and politicians …
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The Netherlands, the eurozone’s fifth economy, will be the next scene of the increasingly bitter confrontation that the entire European continent is experiencing between the xenophobic and hostile extreme right wing of Brussels and the liberal and European forces of right, center and left. The leader of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, has broken the coalition government that headed its formation and thus forced the holding of n…
Dutch prime minister steps down after populist leader Geert Wilders pulls plug on coalition
Dutch politics was in turmoil yesterday following populist far-right politician Geert Wilders’ withdrawal of his party’s ministers from the ruling coalition in a dispute over a crackdown on migration.
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