Eva Lotte Louise Joan Vlaardingerbroek (born 3 September 1996) is a Dutch far-right[6] political commentator and activist.[7][8] She has been particularly vocal about issues surrounding farmers in the Dutch farmers' protests. She is noted for her criticism of the Dutch government under prime minister Mark Rutte. She has made numerous appearances with American conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, arguing that the Dutch farming crisis is not a result of the nitrogen crisis.[9] She is known for promoting far-right conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement conspiracy theory,[4] which is a recurrent theme in her speeches and discussions.
Vlaardingerbroek grew up in Hilversum and studied law at Utrecht University, where she participated in the Utrecht Law College honours program. After studying for some time in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completing her bachelor's degree, she began the master's degree in Encyclopedia and Philosophy of Law at Leiden University. She wrote her thesis on The Contractualization of Sex in the #MeToo Era and completed her master's with honours.[11]
During her studies, Vlaardingerbroek joined political party Forum for Democracy (FvD) in 2016. In 2019, she gave a speech against modern feminism at that year's party congress.[12] In 2019, she took up an internship with the FvD faction in the European Parliament in Brussels. After that, Vlaardingerbroek left Brussels behind to work in Leiden as a lecturer-researcher, during which she published several opinion pieces in Elsevier Weekblad.[12] In October 2020, she put her position at the university and her dissertation on hold to focus fully on a political career, followed by FvD leader Thierry Baudet's announcement on 31 October that Vlaardingerbroek would fill the fifth spot on the party's candidate list for the House of Representatives.[citation needed]
After a dispute over Baudet's leadership and discriminatory remarks made by members of the youth wing publicly escalated in November 2020,[13][14] Vlaardingerbroek announced on WNL's morning show Goedemorgen Nederland on 26 November that she had chosen sides against Baudet.[15] Later that same day, Vlaardingerbroek and Joost Eerdmans, Annabel Nanninga, and Nicki Pouw-Verweij released a joint statement announcing their departure from the party.[16] At the time this meant the end of Vlaardingerbroek's political career. In April 2023, Algemeen Dagblad published an exposé that revealed how in 2021, months after the conflict and split, FvD had threatened her and other former members with hefty fines for allegedly breaching party confidentiality. Vlaardingerbroek was never officially served nor found guilty of breaching party confidentiality and described it as an attempt to scare her into silence.[17]
Vlaardingerbroek speaking at the 2023 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona
In December 2019, Het Parool stated that Vlaardingerbroek "shocked the feminist Netherlands with a speech against modern feminism",[19] in which she called it "a form of hardcore cognitive dissonance". She stated that "neo-feminists have no reflection on what is retrograde or problematic about multiculturalism, especially on the subject that interests them: sexism. So, this feminism is indeed one of the biggest shams of our time."[20] She received scathing criticism by a number of Dutch commentators for her remarks, after Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and some of their journalists branded Vlaardingerbroek the "shield maiden of the far right" and an "Aryan princess" who constituted a danger to the rights of women and minorities.[21][22] In an interview with Bert Dijkstra of De Telegraaf, Vlaardingerbroek fought back, calling the article a politically motivated "character assassination".[21] Vlaardingerbroek has also spoken against abortion, arguing that life begins at conception.[23]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vlaardingerbroek spoke out as a firm critic of lockdowns, mRNA vaccines, and other COVID-19 restrictions, stating that the Western world was "losing its freedom".[24] In January 2021, Vlaardingerbroek made a live appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight stating that Europe was "heading towards a new system, a tyrannical regime, of mass surveillance and control".[25] Also in 2021, Vlaardingerbroek worked for some time in Sweden as presenter of her own pan-European talk show "Let's Talk About It" on the YouTube channel of Swedish media outlet Riks, which is affiliated with the far-right party Sverigedemokraterna.[26] On 1 January 2022, she began working as a legal advisor at a law firm, where she focused on human rights and civil litigation.[27] After more than four months, this employment was terminated.[28]
In early July 2022, Vlaardingerbroek spoke out about the Dutch nitrogen crisis on the American television channel Fox News in conversation with Tucker Carlson.[29] In reference to the Great Replacement and Great Reset conspiracy theories, she argued that the crisis was being used to steal land from farmers in order to build homes on it for immigrants.[30][31]
Vlaardingerbroek regularly appears as a commentator on Mark Steyn's talk show on the British television channel GB News,[32] as well as on the right-wing populist YouTube channel Achtung, Reichelt! by Julian Reichelt, the former editor-in-chief of the German tabloid Bild.[citation needed] On 11 March 2023, Vlaardingerbroek participated in the pro-farmer Zuiderpark protest against the government in The Hague.[33] At the protests, Vlaardingerbroek stated that "our farmers are fighting against the worst kind of injustice".[34]
At CPAC 2024, Vlaardingerbroek asserted that the Great Replacement conspiracy theory is real, citing that 56 percent of the population of Amsterdam, where she lives, consists of immigrants.[a] She added, "I think we all know what they mean with the word 'diversity.' It means less white people. Less of you," apparently addressing the audience.[36] The speech was removed by YouTube for violating its hate speech policies.[3]
Twitter
Vlaardingerbroek has an active presence on X, formerly known as Twitter, where she as of August 2025 has 1,1 million followers. She describes herself as a "Shieldmaiden of the far right", purportedly as a reappropriation of an epithet given to her in the Dutch press.[37]
On 25 November 2023 she expressed her sympathy for the former police officer Derek Chauvin after he had been stabbed in prison, calling him "a victim of mass formation psychosis and mob rule" as well as innocent of the murder of George Floyd.[38]
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine she has criticized the Dutch government for delivering weapons to Ukraine and relayed Tucker Carlson's message about the high standard of living in Russia.[39][40]
In November 2020, during the conflict within the FvD, Vlaardingerbroek publicly opposed party leader Thierry Baudet, who then revealed that they had had a brief affair in 2017.[48] Vlaardingerbroek responded by clarifying that it had been nothing more than a fleeting relationship.[49]
In late 2021, PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager introduced Will Witt, an American former PragerU commentator, to Vlaardingerbroek.[50] In a since-deleted Instagram post, Witt announced their engagement on 29 March 2022.[51][52] The engagement later ended at an unspecified time.
On 13 July 2024, Vlaardingerbroek married Francesco Gargallo di Castel Lentini, an Italian lawyer based in Rome, in a Roman Catholic ceremony.[53][54] Lentini has represented clients in cases involving the Italian security services, and his work has touched on immigration-related issues.[5] On 11 October 2024, Vlaardingerbroek announced that she was pregnant with their first child.[55][56] In December 2024, the couple welcomed their son.[57]
Notes
↑ According to Reuters, this percentage includes Amsterdam residents "with a migration background," meaning that at least one parent was born abroad. Direct immigrants consist of 37 percent of Amsterdam's population.[35]
1 2 Brinkhof, Tim (10 October 2024). "MAGA's Europe Correspondent". Jacobin. Retrieved 2 August 2025. ...these are the words of twenty-seven-year-old Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a rising far-right influencer from the Netherlands, a place where, despite her chilling rhetoric, rates of violent crime remain quite low.
1 2 Bargel, Vicky; Rainer, Anton (8 January 2025). "Boost for the Right Wing: Why Did a German Newspaper Help Elon Musk Interfere in German Politics?". Der Spiegel. ISSN2195-1349. Archived from the original on 24 July 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025. To accompany him, he flew in the right-wing radical Dutch influencer Eva Vlaardingerbroek, known as a reporter for the right-wing populist portal Nius and, in the U.S., for being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on his show. She regularly spreads right-wing extremist conspiracy myths, such as the so-called "great replacement" theory.
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