Rutte was wise to take on the far right | Letters

Jon Henley’s analysis is headlined “Rutte’s victory over Wilders gives few clues to Europe’s direction of travel” (16 March). I disagree. There’s one key clue in the relative victory of Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD party pushing Geert Wilders’ PVV into second place, and that is that Rutte took on Wilders, debating with him and entering into no-holds-barred public meetings and televised question and answer sessions. For too long Europe’s mainstrea