May 23, 2019 - The European campaign for this election is already done, but there are still two campaign debates in the Netherlands on Wednesday evening. Twelve Dutch party leaders will debate each other this evening. And later in the evening VVD leader and Prime Minister Mark Rutte will debate FvD leader ...

May 24, 2019 - The PvdA, Labour party in the Netherlands, was the big winner in the elections held in the Netherlands to determine the country's representation in the European Parliament, according to an exit poll by Ipsos for broadcaster NOS. With a European contingent headed by popular European Commissioner ...

3 weeks ago - The Netherlands is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Netherlands. It is currently represented by twenty-nine Members of the European Parliament. Until the 2009 European Parliament election, it excluded the Dutch in the Netherlands ...

May 30, 2019 - Populist parties were wiped out and the PvdA topped the polls, but it would be easy to be wrong-footed by the Dutch results of the EU elections, writes columnist Syp Wynia. In last week’s European elections, the PvdA bagged the biggest win while the CDA and VVD managed a decent score.

January 26, 2019 - That goal is among the highlights ... sent by Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok to the parliament in The Hague on Friday, titled: "State of the European Union 2019." The document effectively lays out the pillars of Prime Minister Mark Rutte's EU strategy ahead of the European Parliament election in May, and ...

May 24, 2019 - Nobody really expected this, but according to exit polls, PvdA appears to have gained the most votes in this year’s EU elections. PvdA are very pro-EU and left-wing and have now gained 2 seats, maybe even 3? That’s a party that got decimated in the Dutch elections of 2017 and wasn’t in ...

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March 21, 2019 - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will lose his senate majority after upstart anti-EU populists surged in provincial elections just two days after a suspected terror attack in Utrecht.

March 24, 2019 - THE EU establishment have been plunged into yet another crisis after a shock victory for an anti-EU Dutch party in crunch elections this week.

April 18, 2019 - Far-right populist newcomer Forum for Democracy stunned the Dutch political establishment after winning the most votes in provincial elections, according to a preliminary count on Thursday of almost all the votes. Strong gains made by both the Euroskeptics and the Greens in Wednesday’s election ...

January 29, 2019 - View in your browser | Read in Dutch Welcome to POLITICO’s special edition European Elections Playbook series, zeroing in on 15 EU countries in the run up to the May 2019 poll. Today, Playbook goes…

May 27, 2019 - New Dutch nationalist party Forum voor Democratie enters the European parliament for the first time with three seats. This is well below the four or five seats which opinion polls had suggested, based on the party’s strong performance in the March provincial elections.

February 28, 2019 - Conservative group set to lose members in Parliament after Brexit.

May 24, 2019 - Dutch voters are not interested in a 'Nexit', according to polls, but prime minister Mark Rutte warned against a Dutch EU exit on the night before the EU elections at a debate with a new anti-EU kid on the block.

May 24, 2019 - Thierry Baudet, leader of the populist party Forum for Democracy, casts his ballot for the European elections in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Dutch polls have opened in elections for the European Parliament, starting four days of voting across the 28-nation bloc that pits ...

May 19, 2019 - A flamboyant Dutch populist could ... elections. Classics-quoting climate sceptic Thierry Baudet founded the Forum for Democracy just two years ago, but his party is on course to beat Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberals when the Netherlands votes on Thursday. As the first country in the EU to vote, along with exit-bound Britain, Dutch exit polls ...

May 21, 2019 - But it is far from clear how united, or effective, the “less EU” front will be in the new European parliament. Eppink’s young party, Forum voor Democratie (FvD), emerged from nowhere in March to win Dutch provincial elections and is on course to send five MEPs to Brussels – as many as ...

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