Immigration, which has dominated the headlines in the United States since President Donald Trump kicked off his second term in January, is also making headlines in Europe. On Tuesday in the Netherlands, Prime Minister Dick Schoof stepped down after the leader of the country’s far-right party, Geert Wilders, withdrew his party from the ruling coalition over disputes about asylum and immigration, effectively causing the Dutch government’s collapse and triggering new snap elections, according to The Guardian.
The government collapse comes a few weeks before a major NATO summit in The Hague, and marks the unraveling of a multiparty coalition made up of Wilders’s anti-Islam Freedom party (PVV), the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), the centrist New Social Contract (NSC), and the People’s Party fo