Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/9/2016

The Public Prosecutor in the Netherlands has finally released the list of charges that Geert Wilders will face in his upcoming trial. They are:
1. Deliberately insulting a group of people because of their race; and
2. Inciting hatred or discrimination against these people.
Mr. Wilders is being charged with four variants of each of these offenses — complicity, commit, incitement and “doing it complicity”.

In other news, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia have now announced that they will close their borders, effectively shutting off the migration route through Greece to Central Europe. This action was undertaken with EU approval, which is surprising, given that just a few weeks ago the European Commission told Austria it was violating international law and the human rights of migrants by limiting the number of “refugees” that could cross its borders every year.… …