“No
changes to refugee measures,” Wilders warns coalition
December 17,
2024
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/12/no-changes-to-refugee-measures-wilders-warns-coalition/
Far-right
leader Geert Wilders has told reporters he is not prepared to give another
millimetre on legislation to curb the number of refugees coming to the
Netherlands and that without fast action, his party will be finished with the
cabinet.
Immigration
minister Marjolein Faber, who represents the PVV, is due to publish her
long-awaited draft legislation on reducing the number of asylum seekers and on
introducing a second category of refugees this week. But her plans have already
been slated by the Council of State and immigration lawyers.
In
particular, the constitutional advisory body said it had “serious concerns”
about proposals such as abolishing permanent residency for refugees and
creating a two-tier asylum system.
The measures
are designed to control migration by deterring asylum seekers from coming to
the Netherlands and making it easier to send refugees back when the situation
in their countries of origin improves. But experts say they will also lead to a
wave of new court cases, and place an extra burden on the already overstretched
immigration service IND.
“My patience
has run out,” Wilders said. “If these proposals generate a lot of resistance, I
won’t want to be in the cabinet anymore. I hope this is not the case, but at
some point, results will have to be delivered.”
“If people
want to make changes, then they will have to move on without us,” he said.
If passed in
the lower house, the cabinet’s plans to bring in the “strictest asylum regime
ever” are also likely to run into trouble in the senate, where the right-wing
government does not have a majority
The three
Christian parties which could help the coalition to a majority are extremely
critical of the measures, particularly the decision to scrap legislation that
ensures all local authorities provide some accommodation for refugees, the
paper said.
The four
parties agreed on the new plans in October, after ditching the PVV’s demand to
declare emergency and so bypass parliament.
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