Outside support from Geert Wilders's Freedom Party would give the government a slim majority in parliament.
And now Geert Wilders, a far-right populist, has brought down the Dutch government over budget cuts.
Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Freedom Party.
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Why should one accept what Geert Wilders says about Islam, rather than someone like Pipes?
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Interview with Geert Wilders on Islam and freedom of speech
Even the populist politician Geert Wilders and his revolt against the Dutch establishment have done nothing to change this.
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, the head of the Netherland's Freedom Party, is one of Israel's greatest supporters in Europe.
When Geert Wilders goes on trial this week in the Netherlands, he will stand alone before a Dutch court.
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Many analysts who recognize these truths regret "extreme" positions taken by Geert Wilders.
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It happened the other day when Dutch politician Geert Wilders floated the idea of the Netherlands returning to the guilder.
The populist, right-wing Freedom Party, led by the ardently anti-European Geert Wilders, offered voters a radical alternative: abandon the union altogether.
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When Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders goes on trial this week in the Netherlands, he will stand alone before a Dutch court.
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Jordan's Prosecutor General has recently brought charges against Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders.
The new rainbow coalition has shown it can survive without the Freedom Party, leaving Geert Wilders in something of a political no-man's land.
The party's leader, Geert Wilders, said last month he would hire a company to look into the costs of withdrawing from the euro.
In practice, Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer and controversial Freedom Party front man Geert Wilders share two critical positions: both are eurosceptic, both pro-welfare.
Geert Wilders, Member of Parliament of the Netherlands and chairman of the Freedom Party, goes on trial Wednesday in the land of the Dutch.
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Geert Wilders - a film producer and also a member of parliament in the Netherlands - is facing a prison term there for "insulting" Muslims.
The far-right politician Geert Wilders demanded huge reductions in foreign aid.
The trial of Geert Wilders is about the future of freedom.
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September's election was called after the right-wing Freedom Party, led by the anti-European Geert Wilders, withdrew its support for Mr Rutte's budget cuts six months ago.
This week Geert Wilders, a strident anti-Muslim Dutch politician, was denied entry into Britain where he intended to screen his film, Fitna, a nasty rant against Islam.
Geert Wilders is on trial for wanting to discuss it.
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Geert Wilders has played an essential role in this transmission.
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But it is not Geert Wilders who really is on trial here: it is, rather, that sacred principle of free speech on which democracy and the Enlightenment are born.
But these days it is a former devotee of Mr Bolkestein's, Geert Wilders of the far-right Freedom Party, who runs a website for citizens to complain about Polish migrants.
Last week Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, which provides the minority government with backbench support, lashed out against plans to extend further financial backing to Greece.
In the Netherlands, Klau said the impact of Dutch politician Geert Wilders' decision to withdraw his Freedom Party's support for the government, triggering its collapse, would have only a temporary destabilizing effect.
In the Netherlands, Klau said the impact of Dutch politician Geert Wilders' decision to withdraw his Freedom Party's support for the government, triggering its collapse, will have only a temporary destabilizing effect.
In the Netherlands Geert Wilders, who has just precipitated an election by withdrawing his support from the government, is now running as much on an anti-bail-out ticket as his more familiar anti-Muslim one.
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Traditional mainstream parties are declining, and the new racist parties can be seen in broad daylight in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, where populist firebrand Geert Wilders has suggested banning the Koran.
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