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Yesterday — 30 October 2025Main stream

Wilders’s Far-Right Party Faces Rebuke in the Netherlands

Geert Wilders suffered a loss of support as a center-left party staged major gains, an election result that could offer lessons for Europe’s far right.

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A campaign poster of Geert Wilders in The Hague on Wednesday.

Far-Right Party Suffers Big Losses in Dutch Election as Centrists Surge

30 October 2025 at 21:12
The progressive Democrats 66 gained seats and tied with the far-right party of Geert Wilders, which fell back sharply from a strong performance two years ago.

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Rob Jetten, the leader of the socially progressive party Democrats 66, ran a campaign of relentless optimism.

Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom Loses Seats in Dutch Election

A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.

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Supporters of D66 in Leiden, the Netherlands, celebrating on Wednesday.
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Annabel Goldsmith, a Queen of British High Society, Dies at 91

29 October 2025 at 12:00
Annabel’s, the club that Ms. Goldsmith’s first husband named after her, opened in the 1960s and is still one of London’s most exclusive nightspots.

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Annabel Vane‐Tempest‐Stewart in 1954. Not quite a decade later, her first husband named his new nightclub after her, and Annabel’s was a hit.

As the Dutch Vote, One Issue Carries the Day: Affordable Housing

29 October 2025 at 20:31
The small European nation of 18 million people is in the middle of its worst housing crunch in decades. But there is no quick political solution.

© Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

Population growth and a lack of new homes are among the factors leading to a housing crisis in the Netherlands.
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