OUR OPINION. “Sober Dutch people have no cordon. Maybe we should learn something from that?”

Dutch people are down to earth. And they remain that way even in the event of political landslides. No one dismisses the voters’ vote as a “black Sunday”. No cordon sanitary: in the Netherlands it seems obvious that Wilders is now forming a government. “We can learn something from that,” says editor-in-chief Dimitri Antonissen. “A cordon sanitary increasingly seems to be the old answer to an extreme right-wing vote”

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