Rising migration across Europe, including the biggest surge in asylum seekers since a 2015-2016 migrant crisis, is fueling support for far-right and anti-immigration parties, potentially reshaping European politics for years. The far right is polling strongly in the continent’s two largest countries, Germany and France. Wilders has said he wants strict limits on immigration and no longer wants the Netherlands to accept any asylum seekers. The European Union’s setup makes a crackdown on migration and asylum seekers especially difficult. The government is also struggling to reduce the numbers of asylum seekers arriving by sea.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 25, 2023 14:21 UTC