Netherlands: How Strong is the Far Right?
May 26, 2010Advertisement
Yet predictions of his party's impending demise may be premature. Wilders recently said the Netherlands spends more than 7 billion euros a year on immigration. He deftly combines his fight against immigration with economic arguments - and has struck a nerve among Dutch voters. Many are worried by the growing Muslim presence in the country and Islamic radicalization. Both were made possible by a generous immigration policy that hardly requires the migrants to integrate at all.