27 parties and 1,166 candidates crowded the ballot for the Dutch election this week. There have long been many parties in Dutch politics, but in older days, a few big names took the lion’s share of votes, making coalition forming easier. With most of the votes counted, the pro-European @d66_insta and far-right PVV are neck-and-neck, with both projected to take 26 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament. Nevertheless, Wilders’ PVV lost over a quarter of its seats in two years. Rob Jetten’

Who does Mark Rutte go to see after the Russia–Ukraine peace deal collapses? Not Ursula von der Leyen. Not Macron. Not Starmer. He’s flying straight from Europe to the USA — to meet President Trump. That’s quite telling, isn’t it? Why bypass Brussels completely? Trump’s reportedly furious about how talks fell apart, and now NATO’s top man is heading directly to him. Something bigger is going on behind the scenes here… what do you think it is? #Trump #NATO #Geopolitics #RussiaUkraine #NeilMcCoyWa

Mark Rutte warns against the Russian threat. A few days after the meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and American envoys regarding negotiations on a peace agreement, the NATO Secretary General granted us an exclusive interview. As in his last speech in Berlin, he warns against the omnipresence of the Russian threat « not only in the land domain but also in the air domain, and at sea ». Find out more here ➡️ https://lnk.to/rszDfHJo #Arte | Arte

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, speaking to reporters during a press conference Monday ahead of a NATO summit in The Hague, reaffirmed NATO's position that Iran "should not have its hands on a nuclear weapon" and that the US strikes over the weekend on the country's nuclear facilities were not "against international law." | CNN International