Dutch Government Collapses Over Migration Dispute

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Source: New York Times

The governing coalition in the Netherlands collapsed on Tuesday after the populist leader Geert Wilders withdrew his party over a dispute about migration policy, ending a rocky 11-month rule by the country’s first far-right government and triggering early elections.

The move by Mr. Wilders shows how the debate over unauthorized migration continues to roil European politics, a decade after a large-scale influx of people fleeing wars or seeking better economic opportunities unsettled the region.

The coalition’s collapse was confirmed by Prime Minister Dick Schoof, who said he would present his resignation to King Willem-Alexander. He said he would stay on as the leader of a caretaker administration, without Mr. Wilders’s party, until elections and the formation of a new government.

“I think it’s unnecessary and irresponsible,” Mr. Schoof said of Mr. Wilders’s decision.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/europe/geert-wilders-netherlands-coalition.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Putin engages in wars in impoverished countries to create refugee crises.

The refugees flood Europe and the US causing political problems.
Putin uses this to gain control of leaders in the US and Europe.

People keep falling for his bait.

[Quakerfriend]

2. He even paid for immigrants from the middle east

to be flow to Poland’s border, telling them that they would be received there with open arms.

And, I believe that he did this to Finland as well.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes he is paying to start and maintain the wars which produce refugees, then pays to move them to

democratic countries.

Putin is heavily involved in the drug/sex trade so he has a lot of ready cash to spend
buying up the world's democracies. Their leaders are his puppets.

[Quakerfriend]

4. I hadn't thought about him being involved in the drug

and sex trade- but, of course! 😩

I so hope that someone can take him out soon.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes one of his sex/drug trade operators was arrested in Paris.

So we were able to figure out one source of Putin's huge revenue.

He has swindled all the money in Russia.
But doesn't want to spend his personal fortune to buy and destroy all the western democracies.

He is the richest man in the world.

[RazorbackExpat]

8. The Russians had the immigrants ride bicycles to the Finnish border

But Finland had closed nearly all of its border crossings, and it was reported that the hapless immigrants eventually became cannon fodder in the Russian army

[electric_blue68]

9. Woah. I like to think I'm fairly knowledgeable on national & world events....

but this is new information to me. Der.

[Grins]

6. How many years has the American racist Reich snuggled up to Geert Wilders...?

Decades. A guest at how many CPAC Hatefests? At RNC’s?

[Cha]

7. TY Kick. nt.

[Lasher]

10. Locking LBN duplicate.

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