After the election win of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the House of Representatives elections 2023, the party achieved another victory in the European elections. The party is represented in the European Parliament with no fewer than six seats and is part of the June 2024 founded faction 'Patriots for Europe', a partnership… Read more
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?
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.
A report by accounting firm EY is buying from suppliers Premium World a ”excessive amount of gadgets” genoemd.
PVV'er Auke Zijlstra Monday welcomed as a member of the European Parliament. He is the successor of the deceased in May Hans Jansen. Parliament President Martin Schulz called him Monday welcome.
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.
Wilders says what they think. But what do they exactly? And how come they do so?
There is often talk about them, but rarely with them: supporters of Geert Wilders' Freedom Party. In this book Koen Damhuis delves into the life of PVV voters he interviewed for his thesis. Not to criticize them or to idealize, but to understand what a great - moving part of the Dutch population policy - and still growing. The result is at times poignant, often surprising, but especially enlightening. So let this book is not only how diverse the PVV, but also what binds these citizens.