The weekend confrontation between Turkey, Holland, and Germany may seem a remote, Mitteleuropa sideshow but it is not at all.

A major row has broken out between Turkey and the Netherlands.

The longest-standing foreign affairs minister in Europe has hit out at the prospect of hard-right politician Marine le Pen gaining power in France, insisting “we don’t need” her in a Europe she wants to “destroy”.

Brexit, the Donald Trump presidency and a rise in isolated terrorist attacks were some of the shocks that investors faced in 2016, writes Ryan McGrath.

A Dutch court has convicted populist anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders of hate speech charges at the end of a trial he branded a politically motivated "charade" that endangered freedom of speech.

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has boycotted the opening of his hate speech trial in the Netherlands.

Banning Donald Trump from the UK would allow the US presidential hopeful to be portrayed as a martyr, an MP has warned.

A mother confronted the Woolwich attackers, asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: “It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”.

A mother confronted the Woolwich attackers, asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: “It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”, it was reported tonight.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte looks likely to form a coalition between his Conservatives and the Labour party after a major election victory seen as confirmation of voters’ support for the European Union.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has claimed victory for his conservative VVD party in national elections widely seen as a referendum on the Netherlands’ commitment to Europe.

Dutch voters are going to the polls to elect a new parliament in a test of whether they have the stomach to continue with stringent austerity measures.

The Dutch caretaker government and several opposition parties said today that they have done in a matter of days what the Cabinet failed to do in seven weeks: craft a provisional 2013 austerity budget.

The Dutch government, one of the most vocal critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, quit after failing to agree on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.

Politics is, as we have been assured so very often, the art of the possible.

RAPID developments and profound events across Europe could have an impact on Ireland.

THE BOUNDARIES of free speech in Europe have widened after a Dutch court acquitted politician Geert Wilders of inciting hatred against Muslims when he compared Islam with Nazism and called for a ban on the Koran.

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders was cleared by a Dutch court of hate speech and discrimination today.

A court in the Netherlands today ordered a retrial before a new panel of judges in anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders' hate speech trial.

Dutch race-hate trial MP Geert Wilders had a right to issue public warnings about the spread of Islam in Europe and did nothing wrong, a court heard today.

HATE trial Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ attacks on Islam are his opinions, not facts, the hearing was told yesterday.

Hate trial Dutch politician Geert Wilders' attacks on Islam are his opinions, not facts, the hearing was told today.

Muslims in the Netherlands say that remarks by politician Geert Wilders have poisoned attitudes toward them, according to complaints disclosed at his hate speech trial today.

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders went on trial for alleged hate speech today, even as his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all-time highs.

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will stand trial today for alleged hate speech, even as his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all-time highs.

Negotiations to form a right-wing Dutch coalition collapsed today after anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders walked out of the talks.

Dutch politicians were today trying to sort out who will form the next government, after voters backed parties on both the right and the left with very different ideas on budget cuts and Muslim immigration.

The Netherlands swung to the right today with its VVD party claiming victory in national elections.

Islamism and democracy are “incompatible”, Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders said today.

A VICAR saying God ‘doesn’t exist’ is allowed to preach while a farmer has been told to remove a “Jesus saves” sign from his barn.

A RIGHT-WING Dutch politician who compared the Koran to Hitler’s book Mein Kampf sparked protests yesterday as he arrived in Britain.

A PARTY led by far right, anti-Islamist and anti-EU member of the Dutch parliament Geert Wilders has taken four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European Parliament election.

Right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders is to be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred through anti-Islamic statements, a court ruled today.

Right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders is not to be prosecuted over his film denouncing the Koran, it was announced today.

Right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders is not to be prosecuted over his film denouncing the Koran, it was announced today.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders has released a film critical of Islam, setting verses of the Koran against a background of images from terrorist attacks.

Holland’s prime minister said he had won broad EU solidarity from the bloc’s leaders in case the expected release of an anti-Koran film by a maverick Dutch lawmaker leads to violence.

Holland’s prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende has warned a maverick politician of the risks to Dutch national interests if he presses ahead with a film criticising the Koran.

A right-wing Dutch MP is to make a film highlighting what he describes as “fascist” passages in the Koran, his latest high profile criticism of Islam.

BERNARD DUNNE took a giant step towards an inevitable clash with the European super-bantamweight champion Michael Hunter after his short route victory over former British and European bantamweight champion Noel Wilders at the sell-out show in the National Stadium on Saturday night.

Bernard Dunne believes Noel Wilders will wilt before his class and the passion of his Irish supporters in the National Stadium, Dublin tomorrow night.

Following a gruelling training camp, unbeaten Dubliner Bernard Dunne believes he is in the shape of his life ahead of Saturday night’s acid test against former European champion Noel Wilders.