Geert Wilders wants former minister as new ‘scout’, reports say, after first one resigns over fraud claims – as it happened

Far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders speaks to the press in The Hague. Photograph: Robin van Lonkhuijsen/EPA

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Summary of the day

• Gom van Strien, who had been designated at the Dutch “scout” for post-election talks, was scheduled to meet with party leaders today, but resigned in the morning due to fraud allegations which surfaced over the weekend and which he has denied.

• As a result of the morning’s events, Dutch far right leader Geert Wilders now intends to nominate a former Labour minister, Ronald Plasterk, as the new scout, according to local media reports. The nomination could take place tomorrow.

• Wilders repeated that he wants to become prime minister and called for other parties to come to the table.

• Polish president Andrzej Duda swore in a new government under the leadership of conservative Law and Justice’s Mateusz Morawiecki, even though it almost certainly lacks sufficient support and is expected to only last two weeks.

• The prime ministers of Sweden and Finland met amid growing concerns about the arrival of people via Russia at Finland’s border. Petteri Orpo, the Finnish prime minister, said intelligence shows there are still people on the move and “if this continues, more measures will be announced in the near future”.

• Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that “we face the most dangerous world in decades” and that ministers gathering in Brussels later this week will discuss support for Ukraine, the situation in the western Balkans, relationship with China and other security issues.

• Irish police are expected to make sweeping arrests of suspected ringleaders of Thursday’s riot in Dublin and to obtain wider rights to use facial recognition technology to help identify suspects in any future disorder.

Updated at 4.18pm GMT

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Polish president swears in government expected to fall within two weeks

In a controversial move, Polish president Andrzej Duda is swearing in a new conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government, under the leadership of Mateusz Morawiecki – even though such a government would almost certainly not get sufficient support in the Sejm and fall within two weeks.

The opposition won enough votes in last month’s election to form a government, but Duda has insisted on giving a first chance to Law and Justice.

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