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The populists are eager for European elections
This should be their elections. The European populists have even joined forces to advance to the top 3 In Brussels. But the question is: what they want? And they get it done?
Right-wing populists present plan for new, European much larger fraction
The right-wing populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has plans presented in Milan for a big right group in the European Parliament. For thousands of supporters he was on the Cathedral Square next PVV leader Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen of the French Rassemblement National and nine other leaders of parties who come together in their disapproval positions on European cooperation and migration.
Radical right reigns for a long time again with Europe
This month the European Parliament elections. In many European countries is growing extreme right and that trend could continue in the European Parliament. An overview of the countries with the most striking shift to the right.
Who are the Eurosceptics? A search for an elusive enemy
The political center is fighting a many-headed monster Eurosceptic. For men like Timmermans and Macron warn that Europe is on the brink of collapse. But how practical is that danger?
Gossip and torment PVV. Battle for well-paid jobs in Brussels despite being from EU party wants
For a party that Netherlands wants EU, Parliament is remarkably popular among PVV MPs. In the battle for a spot on the list of candidates for the European election candidates accused each other of blackmail, sloth and debauchery. The skirmishes offer a glimpse into the otherwise closed stronghold of the PVV. A snake pit.
Conflicting worldviews in PVV debate on fake news and media
PVV and media form parallel realities. From the media interest in Wilders and his associates is undiminished. Conversely, the situation is different. Wilders adheres generally inaccessible.
PVV and Moluccan KNIL veterans find each other
The PVV organized an exhibition this week in the heart of the body that the party so detests: the European Parliament. The photo exhibition is about former KNIL soldiers of Moluccan descent who have hardly been known by the Dutch government since their arrival..
"Right-wing populist party in Brussels dissipated half million’
The fraction in the European Parliament which also includes the PVV, in 2016 almost half a million wrongly declared. The eurosceptic and populist right-wing political group Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) spent inter alia to bottles of champagne, gifts and meals that are more expensive than the EU allows.
PVV'er 'fancy gadgets should be in Euro Parliament’ repay
PVV MEP Auke Zijlstra is accused of excessive spending on gifts. He spent his allowance a small office 5.000 euros 150 leather writing cases for relationships.
A report by accounting firm EY is buying from suppliers Premium World a ”excessive amount of gadgets” genoemd.
Financial mismanagement at Union fraction PVV and National Front
The ENF in the European Parliament, where Freedom Party and National Front cooperate, incorrectly spent more than half a million. There is also 54.000 looking euro. It is not the first affair with radical right in parliament.
Fear of the power? Wilders nothing to see
Or are security guards there or not, he always runs fast. He wiggles his feet for cameras. Very occasionally he himself reviewing - abroad. Petra de Koning followed a year Geert Wilders' performances.
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Dutch MEP to lose €1,530 in Le Pen voting penalty
The European Parliament will withhold €1,530 in allowances from Dutch member Marcel de Graaff, for unauthorised voting on behalf of his far-right French colleague Marine Le Pen.
The penalty is the result of an inquiry by EP president Martin Schulz, after De Graaff was seen using Le Pen’s electronic voting card at a session in Strasbourg on 28 October, which is not allowed by parliament’s rules.
A new PVV MEP where we will hear from
On the top floors of Willy Brandt, a peripheral part of the building of the European Parliament, houses the least important delegations. Here are parties that have little impact because they are disorganized, procedurally be marginalized and represent a minority position in Parliament. Many offices are empty, but if you go looking for the PVV - that resides here - Auke Zijlstra is remarkably often present: an inconspicuous man peering at his screen and beyond in no way stands.
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A conference of Europa van Naties en Vrijheid in Germany Koblenz with many representatives of extreme right-wing parties from all over Europe. They come together to make a stand against Brussels, to the left and against Islam. There are people from the AfD, FPÖ, Lega Nord en Gerolf Annemans of the Flemish Interest. Is from France Marine le Pen van Front National there and from the Netherlands Geert Wilders of the PVV. Geert Wilders thinks that Dutch women no longer dare to show their blond hair on the street. The congress is through the AfD organized and in addition to Wilders they also have representatives from UKIP invited. As a speaker of the AfD Speaking positively about Israel, a man starts shouting in the audience. He is taken away and when Wilders calls himself a friend of Israel, the audience remains silent.
In Scheveningen talks Steve Hofmeyr Evening on the plaster murders in South Africa. According to the organizer of the meeting, The Prague publishing, are these “hate crimes” where in recent years thousands of white Afrikaners were killed. The lecture was originally elsewhere Den Haag zijn, but is moved to another location because there is noise and Hofmeyr is regarded as racist. Hier is Martin Bosma of the PVV present and more people the theme "Whites in South Africa"Close to the heart is. So is Marcel Bas is, Jan Menger and six members of Erkenbrand. The evening is an initiative of Europa van Naties en Vrijheid and Publisher Van Praag.
Geert Wilders is speaker at a meeting of the European Group Europa van Naties en Vrijheid At the Vlaams Belang in the Flemish Parliament Brussel. He makes statements like this “I give back to the Netherlands Dutch. And if you want it, I grab Flanders there“. Some prominent Flemish Belangers also give speeches at "Freedom Colloquium". The Dutch scientist Machteld Zee University Leiden as the fourth speaker at the program. She scientist about including Islamic fundamentalism and speaks on the topic "opt for Sharia?”.
Foreman Thierry Baudet the think tank Forum voor Democratie is a speaker at a conference of the Polish extreme-right party Congress of the New Right (KNP) en Europa van Naties en Vrijheid in a salt mine in place Wieliczka (nearby Krakau).
PVV-foreman Geert Wilders gives a press conference in Milaan which he says: “When I later am the greatest, and other politicians will not cooperate with me, then people will not accept. Then a revolt. We let that happen“. This is the first annual meeting of the Joint EU Parliament Group “Europa van Naties en Vrijheid”. It is a two day event on Thursday the 28th and Friday the 29th, and the host is the far-right party Lega Nord. Here are six leaders of anti-European and anti-immigration parties together. In addition to Wilders Marine le Pen van FN there and from Belgium is Vlaams Belang traveled. On Thursday, replaces MEP Marcel de Graaff of the PVV Wilders as speakers.
The news gets out that PVV-MEP Marcel de Graaff fined 1500 euro received for vote fraud in the European Parliament. He had 28 oktober with the voice card of Marine le Pen van FN voted. They would not have asked for it. FN in the PVV sit together in the group “Europa van Naties en Vrijheid”.
In Straatsburg there is a vote in the European Parliament. this brings Marcel de Graaff of the PVV-fraction illegal a vote on behalf of Marine le Pen van Front National. This allows him hangs a suspension overhead due to vote fraud. Marine le Pen was not present, but nevertheless appeared to have cast its vote. Some sources claim that De Graaff would have been so even seven times voted for her. They sit together in the group Europa van Naties en Vrijheid.
In the European Parliament Brussel give far right a press conference in which they announce a partnership. Together they form a group that "Europe for the Nations and Freedoms" hot (the official name: Europa van Naties en Vrijheid). This group includes all parties FN, FPÖ, Lega Nord, Vlaams Belang en PVV. Geert Wilders on behalf of the PVV hereby present and he speaks of a historic day and the beginning of the liberation. Called FN is Marine le Pen the spokesman, and it is the chairman of the group. PVV-MEP Marcel de Graaff is co-chairing her right.