Editing Pim Fortuyn List (section)

====Foreign policy====
Although the LPF was established post-[[September 11 attacks|9/11]], Fortuyn had already developed a worldview based on the "clash between civilizations", namely between "modernity" and Islam, or [[Western society]] and [[Islamic culture]]. The LPF supported [[NATO]], but was [[Euroscepticism|eurosceptic]] and saw the [[European Union]] as a "bureaucracy which barely interests its citizens, let alone inspires them." The party was against the [[euro]] currency (which the Netherlands had adopted in 1999), EU influence over Dutch domestic regulation, and opposed the Netherlands participating in the European [[Schengen agreement]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/death-makes-fortuyn-an-icon-of-dutch-right-1.1056933|title=Death makes Fortuyn an icon of Dutch right|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref> Fortuyn also campaigned to reduce Dutch financial contributions to the [[European Union]] and criticised the EU for being "elite" and "technocratic".<ref name="Dutch fall for gay Mr Right"/> The party however did not oppose the principle of economic and political cooperation between European countries and the project of [[European integration]] in general, but rather the EU's present organization, and what it regarded as its lack of [[democracy]], excessive bureaucracy and threat to national sovereignty. The LPF also warned that unopposed EU expansion would lead to the Netherlands becoming absorbed into a Federal Superstate in which Dutch identity would be lost.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/05/06/fortuyn.profile/index.html |title=Pim Fortuyn: Man of paradox |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=May 9, 2002 |accessdate=2022-06-10}}</ref> Opposing the full membership of [[Turkey]], [[Albania]], [[Ukraine]], [[Belarus]] and [[Russia]], the LPF maintained that the European Union "shouldn't cross the [[Bosporus]] and the [[Ural Mountains|Ural]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Mudde|2007|pp=216–218}}</ref> The LPF was also supportive of [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/world/rightist-candidate-in-netherlands-is-slain-and-the-nation-is-stunned.html|title= Rightist Candidate in Netherlands Is Slain, and the Nation Is Stunned |work=The New York Times |date=7 May 2002}}</ref>