Dutch anti-Islam party on the verge of forming EU’s latest hard-right government

Chairman of the Dutch Freedom Party Geert Wilders (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the Netherlands six months after coming in first in national elections.

It opens the prospect that yet another European Union nation will veer towards the hard right weeks ahead of EU-wide elections.