[5] According to the General Intelligence and Security Service, the NVU attracts traditional anti-Semitic neo-Nazis and aims to establish a one-party state in the Netherlands, in imitation of the Nazi Party.
Nunes, who was said to be in contact with controversial Dutch military officer Raymond Westerling and who was alleged to have plans to form a mercenary army to seize power in Suriname.
Baker, who had also wanted to raise a mercenary army in which Glimmerveen, a veteran of the Korean War, had been offered to work as an instructor.
[7] In 1977, the party organized a demonstration in Soestduinen, in which a number of neo-fascists and former members of the wartime National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands participated.
In 1996, young neo-Nazis Constant Kusters and Eite Homan (both of whom had ties with the American NSDAP/AO) approached Glimmerveen with the request to revive the party.
This second iteration of the NVU hosted transnational events in which neo-Nazis from Belgium and Germany participated[7] and the party competed in The Hague and Arnhem during the 1998 Dutch municipal elections [nl], though it again failed to win representation.
In the same year, Glimmerveen left the party on bad terms, followed by other prominent members such as Eite Homan and "Hitler imitator" Stefan Wijkamp [nl].
In 2015, the NVU attracted media attention when supporters of the party appeared in various municipalities on consultation evenings about the arrival of processing facilities for asylum seekers in the context of the European migrant crisis.
Kusters writes and edits the current party newspaper Wij Europa, which Glimmerveen could not stand for both its ideological course and its "shoddy production".
In a combined effort with the Anne Frank Foundation, the former trade union Abvakabo forbade its members from being affiliated with organizations such as the NVU, ANS, and RVF.
[15] In 2012, the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission ruled that barring members of the NVU and Voorpost from other memberships is prohibited discrimination on the basis of political affiliation.