On the 6th of April Dutch voters rejected the ratification of the European Union’s Association Agreement with Ukraine. With a turnout of 32.2 per cent and a majority of 61.1 per cent of the voters saying “no” the referendum met the formal requirements. The big is: what now for the Dutch? The immediate question of course is how the government will react to the results. However, in the long term, and more worryingly, the result of the referendum has possibly opened up a Pandora’s Box of populist politics in Europe writes Sijbren de Jong in ‘Ukraine Analysen’, a German language publication run by the research group on Eastern Europe of the University of Bremen and the German Society for Eastern Europe Studies.
The article (in German) can be downloaded here.
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