Pim Fortuyn would have loved all the international attention. The erratic, quirky populist who single-handedly shook up Dutch politics and who was shot and killed last Monday, was always happiest in ...

FILE - This 1998 photo shows Volkert van der Graaf during an environmental group meeting in Gendringen, Netherlands. The animal rights activist, 33-year-old Volkert van der Graaf, who assassinated ...

THE Netherlands has long seemed to combine the best of many worlds: a booming economy along with a generous welfare state; a keen attitude to Europe's integration combined with a strong sense of ...

LOS ANGELES, May 8 (UPI) -- More than a few members of Europe's political establishment appear to believe that Pim Fortuyn-- the frank anti-immigration Dutch politician who was assassinated Monday, ...

The killer of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was sentenced to 18 years in prison yesterday. Prosecutors had demanded a life term. Volkert van der Graaf, 33, a vegan animal rights activist, had ...

Monday's killing of historian and politician Pim Fortuyn brought an entire nation to its feet. After the initial shockwave that was felt throughout all communities in this tiny trading nation near the ...

L O N D O N, May 7 -- Blunt, outspoken and flamboyant, Pim Fortuyn was a politician with an approach very different to those previously used in Dutch politics. But on Monday, the country's most ...

I will defer to my readers who know more about the Dutch political scene than I do — and I don’t know much — but the more I think about Trump, the more he reminds me of the maverick Dutch politician ...

The Dutch authorities have released the man who murdered the flamboyant anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, now that he has served two-thirds of his jail sentence. Volkert van der Graaf, ...

JAN PETER BALKENENDE was elected to parliament only in 1998, became party leader just nine months ago, and looked well placed to lead his Christian Democrats, out of office since 1994, to yet another ...