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Sep 18, 2026
Paul PetersHOST
And in those cases, usually nothing is done about it.
Paul PetersHOST
But employees also said that the Droomvlucht, which is a dark ride through a fantasy world of elves and fairies, and also the favorite Efteling attraction of PVV leader Geert Wilders, is also a very popular place for scattering ashes.
Paul PetersHOST
And during cleaning rounds, staff regularly discovers trails of ash, and security cameras then sometimes confirm that the material was indeed scattered from an urn.
Paul PetersHOST
Visitors think their loved ones will rest forever in their favorite place, but the ashes are simply vacuumed up.
speaker_1NARRATOR
These optics are catastrophic.
speaker_1NARRATOR
In November 2023, Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom won the most seats in the Dutch general election, running on the bluntest anti-migration platform that Europe had seen in a generation.
speaker_1NARRATOR
By July 2024, a coalition led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber had taken office promising to build, in their own words, the strictest asylum regime ever.
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If
Patrick BoyleHOST
A Dutch data protection agency warned just last week that chatbots were nudging voters towards political extremes when voters used them to decide how they should vote by overrepresenting the same two fringe parties.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Their research showed that chatbots lumped together left-leaning voters with the Green Labor Party and voters on the right with the far-right Party for Freedom.
Patrick BoyleHOST
They found that the other, more mainstream parties didn't feature in the chatbot recommendations.
Patrick BoyleHOST
A possibly deeper problem is that while LLMs are quite clearly biased, they're also quite good at obscuring these biases.
Max OtteGUEST
So maybe Mertz will hang on, but nothing good is going to come out of it.
Rashad SalamatHOST
To you, Ulrike, you know, what's the read through for the rest of Europe? How will parties like France's National Rally or indeed the Netherlands at PVV look at this?
Ulrich BrucknerGUEST
Well, everyone is very concerned.
Ulrich BrucknerGUEST
And when we take France, for example, the whole project of European integration was designed to build a common European future and to bridge the conflicts between Germany and France that have been at war in practically every generation.
Charlie RobinsonHOST
Yeah
David IckeGUEST
... a, um, a, a minister from a party called, um, the, uh, Party for Freedom [laughs] of, um-
Charlie RobinsonHOST
[laughs]
David IckeGUEST
... of Geert Wilders.
Scott LeckieGUEST
Most European countries are fully there.
Scott LeckieGUEST
AfD in Germany, the PVV in Holland, the Reform Party in the U.K., Orban's party before it was ousted from power in Hungary and so many other places.
Scott LeckieGUEST
United States, of course, Canada to a certain extent, certain provinces in particular.
Scott LeckieGUEST
But Australia has largely avoided it until now.
Scott LeckieGUEST
right wing.
Scott LeckieGUEST
And I think that plays itself out in all countries that have toyed with this doctrine.
Scott LeckieGUEST
In Holland, the PVV, Geert Wilders, this extreme right wing, you know, I'm a Dutch citizen, too, by the way, speaking as a Dutchie.
Scott LeckieGUEST
Holland was always the most progressive country out of many progressive countries in Europe forever in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.
Joe BrollyHOST
And, um, they talk about, you know, uh, you must meet cultural assimilation standards.
Joe BrollyHOST
In France, the National Rally, um, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Party for Freedom in Netherlands, the Brothers of Italy I mean, Chega in Portugal, Vox in Spain.
Joe BrollyHOST
You could go on and go on and go on and go on.
Joe BrollyHOST
The Finns Party in Finland, even Finland, you know, touted as one of the most spectacularly economically successful and socially successful countries in the world.
SeamusAUDIENCE
He, he is, and the, the fundamental argument then when you go back to the dictator versus the, the Western democracy, democracy is, is, is not working because we've lots of idiots in democracy who are li- are carrying on like lemmings, uh, voting in leftist degenerates, and then we end up with leftist degenerate decision-making.
SeamusAUDIENCE
If we had right-wing Europe under, which it will happen under Le Pen in France and the AfD in Germany, the PVV and so on in, uh, Holland, and, and that will align with, uh, Italy and other countries in Europe, we will have common sense thinking and policy making thankfully then at that point.
SeamusAUDIENCE
But at the moment there's-
Niall BoylanHOST
I, I, I think the only way we'll ever get common sense thinking, Seamus, is if we have a balance, a- and a good balance of people who are centrist.