(Dutch News) The right-wing Dutch government has abandoned plans to declare a refugee crisis but will press ahead with a number of tough measures to reduce the number of asylum seekers coming to the country.
These include reducing residency permits for refugees from five to three years, border controls, declaring parts of Syria safe, and ending local authority quotas for housing refugees, broadcaster NOS said on Wednesday afternoon.
The NOS has seen a draft of the document which has been thrashed out between the far-right PVV and the NSC, which was opposed to the PVV’s demand to invoke crisis legislation and bypass parliament.
The plans are being discussed at a meeting of all four coalition party leaders and prime minister Dick Schoof on Wednesday afternoon and are set to be rubber-stamped by ministers at Friday’s cabinet meeting.
