Brussels has been left reeling by what EU politicians see as a ‘nightmare’ victory for Geert Wilders and his ‘Nexit’ supporters in yesterday’s Dutch general elections, reports in the Netherlands say.
The 60-year-old’s populist PVV (Freedom Party) won 37 seats, according to near complete results, signalling a dramatic shift to the right in the EU country.
The Eurosceptic party’s unexpected but resounding win prompted immediate congratulations from fellow far-right leaders in France, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Belgium, who said it showed ‘borders and rights must be defended.’
However, the landslide has raised fears in Brussels on account of PVV’s anti-EU stance, and its pledge to hold a binding referendum on leaving the bloc.
This, according to Dutch newspaper ‘De Telegraaf‘, means that victory for Wilders is a ‘nightmare’ scenario for EU bureaucrats, who ever since Britain left in 2020 have feared the emergence of another challenger to the bloc’s status quo.
Brussels has been…