Alfred Vierling (born 3 July 1949) is a Dutch

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, who was active in the 1980s in the

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Centre Party for which he won 135.000 votes during the European elections in 1984 and Centre Democrats and who in the 1990s co-founded the

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. In 1990, he was elected in the

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Schiedam Schiedam () is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands. It is located in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, west of Rotterdam, east of Vlaardingen, and south of Delft. In the south the city is connected with the village ...

and since then he is active for several eurocentrist i.e. a European identity advocating groups, has written articles for various magazines and websites and has made a video interview series with far-right figures such as

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and

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. Alfred Vierling has long been an environmentalist as well as an animal protector. He is co-founder of the Foundation Reinwater (to protect the river

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), the

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in Brussels and was president of the Ecological Movement in the Netherlands. He has been scientific collaborator at

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(International Environmental Law), the

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(Nuclear Strategies) and UNISA,

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(Asian Studies). Also he has been Secretary of the Dutch Inter-Ministerial Commission for Migrants from

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and the

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before he became active in the anti-immigration Centre Party/Centre Democrats. On 12 October 1999, he submitted a complaint against 3 members of the Dutch government regarding war crimes committed by it within the framework of NATO bombings on Yugoslavia at the

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. In the Juli-September 2010 issue n^o 4 of ''Ab Aeterno'' (Journal of the Academy of Social & Political Research) Vierling published an article about the Netherlands in world context entitled ''The Netherlands, a Failed State in a Failed Continent''.''The Netherlands, a Failed State in a Failed Continent''
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