PVV fails to keep professor off High Court panel

Radboud University law professor Ybo Buruma has been appointed to the High Court, despite protests by the anti-Islam PVV.


The PVV opposed the appointment – which is voted on in parliament – because Buruma had compared party leader Geert Wilders to Italian dictator Mussolini.

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