\u201cMany in the Brussels bubble will welcome the rise of a mainstream, pro-governing and reform-oriented party,\u201d said one EU diplomat, granted anonymity because the subject is politically sensitive. \u201cThe Dutch have a lot to contribute to the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n
But even as they exhale with relief at the end of the Wilders interlude, the inhabitants of Europe\u2019s dominant liberal center-ground \u2014\u00a0those Brussels officials, diplomats and ministers who run the EU show \u2014 would be well advised not to celebrate too hard.<\/p>\n
If previous years are any guide, the final shape of the next government and its policy plans will not become clear for months.<\/p>\n
Who knows what will have happened in Ukraine, the Middle East, or in Donald Trump\u2019s trade war with China in that time? \u201cIt is essential for European cooperation that a new government is stable and able to make bold decisions, given the current geopolitical challenges that Europe is facing,\u201d the same diplomat said.<\/p>\n
Even when the new coalition finally begins its work, this election should worry Europe\u2019s liberal centrists almost as much as it delights them.<\/p>\n
Jetten into Europe\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Jetten\u2019s Democracy 66 party has never done so well at a Dutch election: Assuming he gets the job he wants, he\u2019ll be the party\u2019s first prime minister. This week he told POLITICO he wanted to move the Netherlands closer to the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMany in the Brussels bubble will welcome the rise of a mainstream, pro-governing and reform-oriented party,\u201d said one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1194,1395,14035,6641,6215,473,31,28648,32,173257,33,5398,2000,804,299,5187,21604,31620,1780,4175,1195,2348,40,41,44,2992,839,6657,384,47,3053,1201,1219,657,1220,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-536766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-cloud","11":"tag-competitiveness","12":"tag-cooperation","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-democracy","15":"tag-dick-schoof","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-dutch-election-2025","18":"tag-elections","19":"tag-emissions","20":"tag-eu","21":"tag-eu-affairs","22":"tag-europe","23":"tag-european","24":"tag-euroskeptics","25":"tag-frans-timmermans","26":"tag-geert-wilders","27":"tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","28":"tag-growth","29":"tag-history","30":"tag-immigration","31":"tag-islam","32":"tag-marine-le-pen","33":"tag-mark-rutte","34":"tag-middle-east","35":"tag-migration","36":"tag-nigel-farage","37":"tag-poll","38":"tag-the-netherlands","39":"tag-trade","40":"tag-trade-war","41":"tag-ukraine","42":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","43":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}