Water Off a Dutch Back

On 17th March the Netherlands will to the polls in the 2021 general election. In this episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by Pepijn Bergsen, a research fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House, to discuss the upcoming Dutch elections. Will Geert Wilders improve his far-right party's performance from 2017? Is the coronavirus pandemic and the EU's troubled vaccine rollout having an impact in the polls? And what, if anything, can flap the unflappable Dutch?


We'd love to hear from you! Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk. Find us on Twitter: @idvck and @emilyctamkin.


Subscribing to the New Statesman helps us keep producing this podcast. You can now subscribe for 12 weeks for just £12. Visit newstatesman.com/subscribe12


More audio from the New Statesman: listen to our twice-weekly UK politics podcast The New Statesman podcast


If you are a New Statesman digital subscriber you can get ad-free access to this podcast by visiting newstatesman.com/nssubscribers.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More from World Review from the New Statesman

  1. 16:16Susan Neiman: "It's not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but pro-human rights"Jan 22, 2024
  2. 28:18How will elections shape the world in 2024?Jan 08, 2024
  3. 58:45What does it mean to be Jewish and on the left today?Dec 16, 2023
  4. 28:05Iran's interest in Israel, with former ambassador John JenkinsNov 18, 2023
  5. 27:23NEW: Will the Israel Gaza war spread to the wider Middle East?Oct 17, 2023
  6. 01:14A message to World Review listenersAug 21, 2023
  7. 00:46World Review is on hiatusJun 08, 2023
  8. 25:51Are China and the EU headed for a trade war? With Bruno MaçãesJun 05, 2023
  9. 22:48Is the war coming home to Russia?Jun 01, 2023
  10. 30:54How the Russia’s war on Ukraine will change the world, with Serhii PlokhyMay 29, 2023