CER Podcast: Will Wilders’ Dutch election win weaken the EU?

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Sander Tordoir, senior economist at the CER, and Caroline de Gruyter, author and columnist for the leading Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, join podcast host, Octavia Hughes, to discuss the outcome of the Dutch general election and what the surge of Geert Wilders’ far-right means for the EU. Caroline explains how the adoption of more extreme policies by centre-right parties across Europe has strengthened far-right parties like the Netherlands' Party for Freedom. Sander sets out scenarios for the coalition negotiations and the odds of Wilders becoming Dutch prime minister. Produced by Octavia Hughes Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to the Centre for European Reforms podcast.
0:33.0	Now, it's been a dramatic few days in Dutch politics after the general election last Wednesday.
0:38.9	Fifteen parties are in the fragmented Dutch parliament.
0:42.5	Git Wilders Party for Freedom or PVV captured 37 seats,
0:47.0	more than outgoing PM Mark Router, with his centre-right VVD in the last two election cycles.
0:53.4	Timmermans' Red Greens got 25 seats, followed by the VVD in the last two election cycles. Timmermans' red greens got 25 seats, followed by the
0:57.0	VVD with 24. Former Christian Democrat new social contract got 20 seats, and the rest followed
1:04.1	at quite some distance. While the surprise result of the PVV isn't the 76 needed to form a government.
1:11.7	It is possible that Wilders could cobble together a coalition after he waters down some of his more extreme rhetoric on Islam and immigration,
1:20.8	something he seems more than willing to do.
1:22.9	So how likely is the Netherlands to have Mr. Wilders as its next PM?
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