Can Germany's future be found in Holland?

Dear Reader,

If you want to peer into Germany’s political future you could do worse than look at what is going on in the Netherlands at the moment.

This week, a coalition led by Geert Wilders’ radical Party for Freedom (PVV) announced that it had reached an agreement to form a government after six, long months of negotiation.

Both the structure of the new Dutch government and the contents of its coalition pact are harbingers of what lies ahead for Germany.

Firstly, the government is made up of outsiders.

Wilders, a political outcast and staunch critic of Islam, has put together a four-way coalition that only includes one party with any experience of governance.

Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), has been joined by the BBB, a farmers’ party set up in 2019 to protest planned cuts to livestock numbers, and a conservative splinter group called the NSC that was established shortly before the election.

Only the VDD, Holland’s traditional party of power, has any experience in government. They have…