The government of the Netherlands has collapsed after Geert Wilders withdrew his far-right Party for Freedom from the ruling coalition over other parties’ refusal to back Wilders’s “strictest asylum policy ever.” Wilders’s plan proposed halting the asylum process and pausing the reunification of families whose members have been granted refugee status. Opposition parties are calling for fresh elections.
Meanwhile, Poland’s liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced lawmakers will hold a confidence vote on his government on June 11, after the nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki won the country’s presidential election on Sunday.