A frequent reader alerted me that a new government coalition was just formed in The Netherlands. The conservative Dutch paper De Telegraaf (not related to the UK or Aussie Daily Telegraphs) has more details. https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1668856478/streng-asielpakket-mix-van-ingrijpende-bekende-en-europese-maatregelen (in Dutch)
Totle of the new coaltion agreement: “Hoop, lef, en trots” (hope, guts, and pride). [NB: the Dutch word for ‘guts’ is a Hebrew and Yiddish loanword: lev = “heart”.]
The four coalition parties are:
- Geert Wilders’s PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom), which is socially liberal, but extremely hawkish on immigration (because they see particularly Muslim immigrant as a threat to the Dutch freedoms — while sometimes failing to see the difference between Muslim and Islamist)
- The mainstream center-right VVD (Vereniging voor Vrijheid en Demokratie, Union for Freedom and Democracy) of outgoing PM Mark Rutte
- The new NSC (Nieuw Sociaal Contract) party, which stresses good governance and transparency
- The BBB (Boeren Burger-Beweging, Farmers Citizens Movement) which arose in protest to ever more onerous restrictions on agriculture for the sake of “the climate”
Some key points from the agreement
- drastic curtailment of “refugee” migration, on the Danish model
- tax cuts for the lower middle class
- reversing Rutte’s disastrous agricultural restrictions
- at the EU level, no exit, but a push for EU reform, particularly on immigration and climate
Developing…
Spin, strangeness, and charm 
Sounds like some good news for a change. Perhaps Europe as Western Civilization is not lost yet. Many pundits said a coalition with Wilders was impossible, but here it is.