
Belgian Election Victor Picks Negotiator for Flemish Coalition Talks
Looming budget woes may encourage faster government formation.
Looming budget woes may encourage faster government formation.
The Left is showing its capacity to unite while the Right squabbles.
Geert Wilders lamented the news, saying Plasterk “would have made an excellent PM.”
Strict migration rules and rollback of Green Deal policies included in coalition program.
PVV leader Geert Wilders said he couldn’t “see it going wrong at this point.”
Talks to determine who will take the reins could drag on for months.
Almost 3 months after the populist won election, the country is still in political deadlock. A freshly appointed intermediary has his work cut out for him.
Geert Wilders’ ambitions for a rightist majority cabinet face serious setback.
Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez’s first bills are set to be defeated—by his allies.
To advance the formation of a new government, Geert Wilders’ PVV party is scrapping proposed legislation calling for a ban on “expressions of Islam,” justified under the notion that Islam, more than just a religion, is a “hostile political ideology bent on conquest.”