Brussels | If ever the hard right in Europe needed a set of jumper cables to rev up their electoral engine again in the wake of last month’s major setback in Poland, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands provided it.
Congratulations rolled in from all sides on Thursday (Friday AEDT) for Mr Wilders, an anti-Islam firebrand who scored an election victory as unexpected as it was massive. His party more than doubled in size in parliament to tower over mainstream parties that long specialised in marginalising him.
