By AFP – Mar 13,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Children ride bicycles past election posters in Volendam on Monday, prior to March 15 Dutch parliamentary elections (AFP photo) ISTANBUL — The European Union on Monday warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to avoid inflammatory rhetoric, as a diplomatic crisis between […]
Source: BBC Voters are going to the polls in the Netherlands in the first of three crucial eurozone elections this year. The race is dominated by Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s […]
Source: Time By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson / Kerkrade, The Netherlands Mar 13, 2017 They were hardly the headlines the Dutch ruling party would have wanted days before they contest general elections. First, […]
Reuters International MAR 6, 2017 – Dutch Campaign posters are seen in front of a windmill in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 1 2017. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (reuters_tickers) By Stephanie van den Berg AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands faces political disarray after the March 15 election as mainstream parties, diminished by losses […]
Reuters International MAR 3, 2017 – 11:49 A Dutch flag floats in the port of Volendam near Amsterdam, Netherlands February 11, 2017. Picture taken February 11, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (reuters_tickers) By Toby Sterling VOLENDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) – The Dutch fishing village of Volendam hardly seems like a hotbed of discontent: […]
Reuters International FEB 18, 2017 – Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders attends a news conference after a European far-right leaders meeting in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (reuters_tickers) By Thomas Escritt SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands (Reuters) – Dutch anti-Muslim, anti-EU party leader Geert Wilders promised to […]
Geert Wilders is dragging all of Dutch politics in a nationalist direction Feb 11th 2017 | AMSTERDAM “THERE’S something wrong with our country,” began an open letter to the Dutch people published last month. It went on to moan about those who “abuse our country’s freedom to cause havoc, when they […]
Reuters International FEB 14, 2017 – FILE PHOTO:Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders attends a news conference after a European far-right leaders meeting in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (reuters_tickers) By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Campaigning for the Dutch election kicks off on Wednesday […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Photo courtesy: PAL-V International B.V. The Dutch company PAL-V International B.V. has officially launched sales for its two commercial models of flying cars this week, promising deliveries of the road and air certificated models by the end of 2018. “After years of hard work, beating the technical […]
Reuters International FEB 12, 2017 – FILE PHOTO:France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders take a Selfie during a European far-right leaders meeting to discuss about the European Union, in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By […]
Source: BBC Weeks before Dutch voters go to the polls, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that anyone who rejects the country’s values should leave. “Act normal, or go away,” he says, in a message seen as taking on the anti-immigration Freedom party currently running high in the opinion polls. […]
Source: Daily Sabah Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ruled out the possibility of a coalition with Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom, who is known for his […]
Source: Times of Israel. The right-leaning news blog GeenStijl, which boasts 2 million views per month, wrote that Zilveren Kruis is moving into the niche that until recently was occupied only by specialized insurance companies catering specifically to Muslims. Zilveren Kruis began including non-medical circumcision of boys in some of […]
Source: BBC Dutch anti-Islam political leader Geert Wilders has been convicted of insulting a group and inciting discrimination. But no penalty was imposed by the court near Amsterdam on Wilders, […]
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionBurkas and niqab veils will be banned in certain public places if the law is passed Dutch MPs have backed a ban on the Islamic full veil in some public places such as schools and hospitals, and on public transport. The niqab face veil and the […]
Source: Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Firebrand Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says he will not attend court next week to face hate speech charges, calling the case against him “a political trial.” Prosecutors have charged Wilders, leader of the populist Dutch Freedom Party, with insulting a group […]
Reuters International OCT 2, 2016 – AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans has been shot dead by a sniper in Sirte, Libya, according to a report on Sunday on the website of the Belgian newspaper he had been working for. Knack said it had been informed of Oerlemans’ […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP SCHIPHOL/ Netherlands Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders sits in a courtroom of the courthouse in Schiphol, the Netherlands March 18, 2016. (REUTERS Photo) Lawyers for Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders on Friday urged judges to drop an upcoming hate speech case […]
Source: Yahoo News The Hague (AFP) – The political party of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, which is leading polls ahead of parliamentary elections next year, has vowed to close […]
Source: The Times of Israel The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the Dutch […]