Geert Wilders’s Dutch election win is a headache for Europe

SINCE GEERT WILDERS’S surprise triumph in the Dutch election on November 22nd, plaudits have poured in from across Europe—but overwhelmingly from his political family on the hard right of the spectrum. Marine Le Pen of France and Viktor Orban of Hungary are thrilled; but not many others relish the prospect of working with the anti-immigrant firebrand. Mr Wilders presents a political headache for the EU, a club used to moving forward by helping centrists of the left and right politely thrash out their differences. But in many ways the populists are melding the consensus rather than threatening to overthrow it.