Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Henny Dykmann is about to change the habit of a lifetime. Long a supporter of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD ...

The Netherlands is heading to the polls next week in an election that will decide its new prime minister. There’s just one problem: The man who’s been leading the race doesn’t seem very keen on the ...

Pieter Omtzigt, a longtime member of the Dutch center-right Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), has created a new party to fight for votes in November’s election. Omtzigt announced the new party, ...

Independent MP Pieter Omtzigt will take part in the November general election with his own party, the former CDA parliamentarian has announced. Omtzigt’s party will be called Nieuw Sociaal Contract ...

Campaigning MP Pieter Omtzigt has become the fourth person to announce he plans to join the contest to find a new leader for the Christian Democrats. Omtzigt, one of two MPs who got the tax office ...

Rising star center-right candidate Pieter Omtzigt is "riding the populist wave" without being a populist himself, analysts say. He may have helped calm the tone ...

There really is a sense of a new era beginning in Dutch politics in Wednesday's snap parliamentary election. Not only is a brand new party among the front-runners, but the Netherlands could be about ...

Unusually, a protest vote may be coalescing around a centrist, Pieter Omtzigt, as the Dutch vote in national elections on Wednesday. By Claire Moses Reporting from Amsterdam After 13 years with Mark ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe’s borrowing binge to scale up its defence industry risks a new debt crisis, a leading Dutch politician ...

A former Dutch MP who spearheaded the Council of Europe’s efforts to ensure justice for journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia fears very little has changed in Malta. Omtzigt was in Malta last week ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch centre-right leader Pieter Omtzigt announced Friday evening he is quitting both the fragile four-party ruling coalition and national politics. Citing his mental health, ...

Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch lawmaker, has announced the withdrawal of a proposed 2018 legislation advocating a ban on mosques and the Quran. The move is seen as a key concession to potential ...