Overview
- PVV leader Geert Wilders met residents at the Koman family fish shop, a fifty-year business now at risk from the plan.
- He argued the final decision belongs to the national government and the House of Representatives despite the local council’s approval.
- A parliamentary discussion is scheduled Monday, where he may propose a referendum, alongside planned talks with the national government and North Brabant.
- Wilders said he cannot guarantee saving the village but vowed to try to assemble a majority to halt the plan.
- The council’s vote advances the Powerport project to make the area an energy‑transition hub within about ten years, which residents oppose while urging alternatives such as the Maasvlakte.