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Dutch Election: What Does It Mean for Europe?

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March 16, 2017

What next for an EU that seems more divided than ever and is increasingly under threat from a politics of anger and insults? Our guests: Job Janssen (dutch expert on right-wing populism), Alan Posener (Welt), Rieke Havertz (Zeit online).

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Job Janssen is a journalist from the Netherlands and an expert on right-wing populism. He says: "Wilders may have lost the elections, his political agenda certainly didn’t."

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Alan Posener is an author and commentator for daily newspaper Die Welt. He says: "It seems the conflict with Turkey helped the government. Angela Merkel will take note."

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Rieke Havertz is working as a journalist for Zeit Online. She says: "Mark Rutte's victory shows the strength of democracies. But Europe should not lean back and relax after the elections in the Netherlands."

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