Europe Is Facing 4 Existential Tests. Can It Hold Together? – The New York Times

Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right leader, center, campaigning in Valkenburg on Saturday. Credit Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press The risk of European disintegration looks significantly more real this week. Multiple crises, each a symptom and cause of the continent’s deepest problems, are converging simultaneously. Britain took a step toward leaving the European Union, and Scotland toward independence….

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Dutch Vote Watched Across Europe With a Finger in the Wind – The New York Times

The last preparations in a polling station at a school in Rotterdam a day before parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. Credit Robin Utrecht/European Pressphoto Agency Elections in the Netherlands on Wednesday are being watched especially closely across Europe and beyond as a key gauge of whether formerly strong barriers to the far right still stand…

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