THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The center-right lawmaker whose new party is riding so high in polls ahead of next week's Dutch election that he could become a kingmaker in coalition talks said Thursday ...

PIETER OMTZIGT is the most popular politician in the Netherlands, the EU’s fifth-biggest economy, in part because in 2021 the country’s leaders apparently tried to ditch him. Mr Omtzigt, an MP who ...

FILE PHOTO: Dutch PM Rutte leaves the Huis ten Bosch Palace, in The Hague AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Pieter Omtzigt, one of the most popular conservative politicians in the Netherlands, has founded a new ...

NSC’s Pieter Omtzigt said to be shocked by public finances as he abandons talks to form coalition under far-right leader Geert Wilders’ chances of forming a majority government in the Netherlands have ...

Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders' hopes of becoming prime minister of the Netherlands are dwindling after coalition talks fell into disarray Tuesday. The New Social Contract party's leader ...

NSC leader Pieter Omtzigt has pulled out of the ongoing talks on forming a new Dutch government, saying there is no point in holding any meetings on forming a majority right-wing government. Omtzigt’s ...

Pieter Omtzigt never wanted his new party to be too big. Before the last election – with the good people of the Netherlands shocked by 40,000 parents incorrectly stamped as childcare benefit ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch government formation talks were thrown in disarray on Tuesday as centrist party NSC unexpectedly stepped away, complicating the task for far-right politician Geert Wilders ...

Dilan Yeşilgöz, the leader of the biggest center-right party in the Dutch parliament, ruled out joining a potential Geert Wilders-dominated coalition but said she could support such a government from ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch centre-right leader Pieter Omtzigt announced Friday evening he is quitting both the fragile four-party ruling coalition and national politics. Citing his mental health, ...

Unusually, a protest vote may be coalescing around a centrist, Pieter Omtzigt, as the Dutch vote in national elections on Wednesday. By Claire Moses Reporting from Amsterdam After 13 years with Mark ...