In the press

NIS News Bulletin AMSTERDAM, Saturday - Independent MP Geert Wilders on Friday presented sixteen "ordinary men and women with guts" as the Lower House candidates of his new Party for Freedom. "They are not ignorant bureaucrats but all people from society".

NIS News Bulletin THE HAGUE, Saturday - The Netherlands is not refusing radical Pakistani Muslim leader Mohammed Anas Noorani Siddiqui entry to the country. He is due to speak in an Amsterdam mosque on Sunday.

NIS News Bulletin THE HAGUE, Wednesday - MP Wilders is proposing that article 1 of the Constitution be scrapped. He wishes to replace it by a new article in which the Jewish-Christian and humanist tradition and culture is laid down as the dominant culture of the Netherlands.

NIS News Bulletin THE HAGUE - The Lower House considers that the cabinet treats the misbehaviour of young people from immigrant backgrounds with velvet gloves. A cross-party majority wants to penalise parents if they refuse to accept help in raising their children, but the government does not consider this feasible.