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Dutch young politician de Vos: “I saw my homeland disappearing” Interview with Lidewij de Vos, Junge Freiheit , 7 June 2026 by Curd-Torsten Weick and Mina Buts. Like Germany, the Netherlands is also grappling with the …
By Editorial Team
Politics
Youth crime and migrant backgrounds: figures The Hague would rather avoid
The Netherlands has a growing problem with youth crime. Not only on the streets, but also in the classroom, on social media and in statistics. Young people are increasingly suspected of weapons offences, schools are …
By Editorial Team
Politics
The US National Security Strategy and its implications for Europe
20 May 2026 Speech given in the Second Chamber of the States-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch Parliament) Chairman, The National Security Strategy document published by the US government at the end of …
By Ralf Dekker
Politics
Let us scrap climate policy after the UN climate panel withdraws its doomsday scenario
Lidewij De Vos MP submits parliamentary questions: Let us scrap climate policy after the UN climate panel withdraws its doomsday scenario. For years, people have been told that the Earth could warm by as much as 4 to 6 …
By Lidewij de Vos
Politics
Climate Alarmists Undermined by New Report from the International Panel on Climate Change
In a newly published report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), earlier predictions about future global warming have been drastically revised downward. The most extreme climate scenario (4 to 6 …
By Editorial Team
Politics
Hard and Soft Totalitarianism: Orwell, Huxley and the Blind Spot of the Left
Few twentieth-century thinkers are often mentioned in the same breath as often as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Their work still serves as a point of reference in debates about power, freedom, and manipulation. …
By Hans van de Breevaart
Politics
How to make a U-Turn for Europe
At the first international values conference of “U-Turn for Europe”, held in Vienna in April, it became clear that the erosion of values has long since spread across the whole of Europe. Culture, education, law …
By Stefan Korte
Politics
Men and women are different and the government should stop trying to make them ‘equal’
Speech by Lidewij de Vos, Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament, 23 April 2026 Men and women are different. In a world where egalitarian thinking threatens to erase every distinction, it is of the utmost importance not …
By Lidewij de Vos
Politics
The Spiritual Roots of Baltasar Gracián’s Wisdom
Baltasar Cracian’s book, “The Art of Worldly Wisdom” is widely read and praised all over the world. Many people compare it to Machiavilli’s “The Prince” and Sun Tsu’s “The Art of War”. Most think that this is a wisdom …
By Prof. dr. h.c. Hei Sing Tso
Politics
Broad Dutch Parliamentary Coalition Backs Motion to Suspend EU–Israel Trade Deal
FVD has voted for two motions put down in Parliament, which garnered a majority and were therefore carried, calling for the trade component of the EU-Israel association agreement to be suspended. The motions provoked a …
By Editorial Team
Politics
Ralf Dekker on the Middle East
Speech to the Second Chamber of the Netherlands States-General (Parliament) 16 April 2026 For a long time, I was under the impression that the instability in the Middle East, unfavourable to the Netherlands in many …
By Ralf Dekker
Politics
Will the UN resolution on slavery lead to more development aid and even reparations? FVD submits parliamentary questions
26 March 2026 Tom Russcher and Ralf Dekker today submitted written questions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the UN resolution, in which the transatlantic slave trade is described as “the gravest crime …
By Editorial Team
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