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When the Dutch prime-minister Mark Rutte, from the conservative-liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), gave his Churchill lecture in Zürich early 2019, he was seen to finally opt for an unequivocal pro-European integration stance. In the European Parliament elections of May 2019, Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans led his social democratic Labour Party (PvdA) to victory on a pro-EU platform, with the VVD and the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) coming in second and third place. Pro-European politics clearly took the centre stage in the Netherlands.
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Meijers, M.J., Stevenson, L., Schout, A. (2021). The Netherlands: Playing with Fire? Dutch Political Parties Between Reluctant and Pragmatic Pro-Europeanism. In: Kaeding, M., Pollak, J., Schmidt, P. (eds) Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41272-2_37
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