Extreme-Right politics in Netherlands
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Geert Wilders launches new anti-immigrant party
In anticipation of the general election in 2007, Geert Wilders, a rightwing populist and former parliamentarian for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), launched his new Freedom Party and its ten-point programme at the end of March.
1 May 2006 (311 words)
Extremist MP demands ban on Islamic immigration and more deportations
Geert Wilders, MP has called for a complete five-year ban on people from Turkey and Morocco immigrating to the Netherlands and this would include those who wanted to join their families.
23 September 2004 (144 words)
Pim Fortuyn's party files for bankruptcy
The Dutch Populist Party set up by Pim Fortuyn, who was murdered in 2002, has filed for bankruptcy.
13 August 2004 (78 words)
Mass deportation plan causes furore
The government plan to deport 26,000 failed asylum seekers has led to an intense public and parliamentary debate about immigration and asylum in the Netherlands.
25 June 2004 (521 words)
Former VVD leader blames party for cultivating migrant hate
In an interview with Algemeen Dagblad, the former Liberal VVD leader Hans Dijkstal has claimed that Dutch political culture is sowing hate and criminalising migrants, and that much of the blame for this should be placed on VVD parliamentary leader Jozias van Aartsen who he described as 'il capo' (the term for inmates who collaborated with concentration camp guards).
8 June 2004 (158 words)
New fascist party supports alleged killer
On 21 February the Nationale Alliantie (NA) held a march in the Hague to demand the release of Cees Gardien, a man awaiting trial for the killing of a Turkish immigrant.
1 April 2004 (62 words)
European elections: LPF fails to gain representation
The List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) stood candidates for the first time in the European elections but failed to win representation.
22 March 2004 (88 words)
Report criticises police and government response to racism
According to researchers at the University of Leiden and the Anne Frank Foundation, the authorities are failing to protect minorities from discrimination and failing to prosecute racial violence.
1 March 2004 (79 words)
Eindhoven: a climate against Muslims
In June, an organisation describing itself as the Committee of Concerned Citizens damaged the locks on the gate of the Eindhoven mosque and sought to bar Muslims from entering it through erecting a massive chain.
1 August 2003 (124 words)
New government takes hard integration, immigration line
On 27 May, four months after the general election, a new coalition government was formed, comprising the Christian Democrats (CDA), the Liberals (WD) and the D66 (progressive Liberals).
29 July 2003 (258 words)
Eindhoven's campaign against Nazi forest barracks
Dutch fascists from the new National Movement, which describes itself as anti-parliamentary and advocates direct action, has formed a squat in the De Kazerne military barracks, in a forest near Eindhoven, and use it as an organising centre for activity and recruitment.
30 May 2003 (98 words)
Nazis contest Apeldoorn regional elections
The neo-Nazi Nederlandse Volks Unie (NVU) polled 1,120 votes in regional elections in Apeldoorn, failing to secure any seats on the local council.
1 May 2003 (73 words)
Killer of Pim Fortuyn sentenced
In April, a court convicted the 33-year-old animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf of the murder of Pim Fortuyn and sentenced him to 18 years imprisonment.
30 April 2003 (234 words)
The general election and anti-immigrant parties
The List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) lost two thirds of its previous support in the January 2003 general election.
29 January 2003 (1251 words)
MP investigated for incitement after denouncing Prophet Mohammed
An umbrella organisation representing mosques throughout the Netherlands has called for Ayaan Hirsi Ali MP to be barred from office after she described the Prophet Mohammed as a 'perverse tyrant'.
29 January 2003 (229 words)
The rise and fall of the List Pim Fortuyn
Less than one hundred days after coming to power, an internecine struggle in the party of the murdered anti-immigration politician, Pim Fortuyn, triggered the collapse of the Dutch centre-Right coalition government led by the Christian Democrats.
1 October 2002 (467 words)
The Dutch general election and the assassination of Pim Fortuyn
In July, the new coalition government headed by the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA) but including the anti-immigrant List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), as well as the free market liberal VVD party, came to power after the two tumultuous months which followed the assassination of Pim Fortuyn.
1 August 2002 (2491 words)
More on the LPF - can it survive without Fortuyn?
Following Fortuyn's death, the party announced that it would not appoint a new leader until after the elections and Fortuyn's name still headed the party's list, leading to the surreal idea that Fortuyn could be elected the Netherland's first dead prime minister.
1 August 2002 (433 words)
Muslims fear growing intolerance, in LPF-controlled Rotterdam
As the March local elections swept Fortuyn's party to power in Rotterdam, Muslim organisations immediately expressed dismay that years of race relations work would be swept aside by an administration bent on cutting organisations that promote integration.
1 August 2002 (92 words)
Fortuyn's legacy: threats, violence, communal division
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn was quickly followed by a wave of anger and threats against left-wing organisations, anti-racists and anti-fascists and environmental activists.
1 August 2002 (966 words)
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