Thursday, June 5, 2025

Strict Immigration Policy goes on deaf ears with Dutch Parliament

Dutch Government Collapses Over Immigration Failure

Prime Minister Dick Schoof has just announced that he would offer his resignation from the Netherlands’ ruling coalition while continuing in a caretaker government, setting the stage for a likely snap election.

Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders has pulled his Freedom Party (PVV) from the country's ruling coalition after issuing an ultimatum last week demanding tougher action on curbing the migrant crisis.

With no agreement, Wilders, whose party held the most seats, quit the coalition in The Hague, plunging the Netherlands into political uncertainty.

"The PVV promised voters the strictest asylum policy ever," including a hard-line 10-point plan to "close the borders to asylum-seekers," Wilders told reporters earlier.

He noted that when coalition partners (populist Farmer-Citizens Movement (BBB), the centrist New Social Contract (NSC), and the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)) disagreed on the new plans, "I had no choice but to say: We rescind support for this Cabinet."

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In the past decade twenty-nine million immigrants, both legal and illegal, arrived in Europe, straining the Continent’s already overstretched and largely dysfunctional immigration system.

Illegal migrants entering Europe come predominantly from Africa and the Middle East, with Syria the leading country of origin, followed by West Africans and Afghans.

Terrorist attacks in Europe by Islamist extremists, especially those in Madrid and London, and the cases of radicalization of native Muslim Europeans have contributed to mistrust and public anger.

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