(NL Times) Activist Mohammed Khatib of the pro-Palestinian organization Samidoun will speak via a video link at a protest in Wageningen on Friday. The Netherlands denied Khatib access to the country last month when he was invited by Radboud University employees to […]
(Dutch News) A pro-Palestinian activist has held a speech via video link outside a building at Nijmegen’s Radboud University after he was banned by the Dutch government and campus authorities. Mohammed Khatib was due to give a lecture on the treatment of […]
(Dutch News) A controversial Palestinian activist who had been invited to give a lecture at Radboud University in Nijmegen next week has been banned from entering the Netherlands. Mohammed Khatib, who had been asked to talk about Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli […]
(AP) The hard-right Dutch government announced unprecedented measures Friday aimed at reining in migration, including a re-introduction of border checks, making the Netherlands the latest European nation to take a hardline stance against migration as anti-foreigner sentiment surges throughout much of the […]
(NL Times) The Cabinet is looking into the possibility of sending asylum seekers to Uganda if their request for asylum was rejected. Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Reinette Klever said this on Wednesday following a working visit to the country. The […]
(NL Times) Dutch far-right political party PVV is continuing to insist that the Cabinet must declare the asylum situation in the Netherlands to be a state of emergency, and use extreme powers to sidestep Parliament and force a much stricter approach to […]
(AP) The new Dutch government dominated by the far-right party of Geert Wilders officially asked the European Union for an exemption from its migration obligations on Wednesday, setting up a confrontation over one of the most explosive issues facing the bloc at […]
(AP) The new hard-right Dutch government pledged Tuesday to launch stricter policies to hold back or kick out migrants who don’t qualify for asylum, as the king laid out the administration’s plans in a speech to open the parliamentary year. Dutch King […]
(Reuters) The Dutch government said on Friday it aimed to implement measures to limit migration in the coming months, including a moratorium on all new applications, days after Germany announced new border controls to keep out unwanted migrants. The new government, led […]
(Dutch News) An increasing number of asylum requests that would have been granted previously are now being turned down because of new rules governing “credibility,” current affairs show Nieuwsuur reported on Monday evening. The programme spoke to lawyers, refugee agency Vluchtelingenwerk and […]
(Dutch News) Syria is safe enough to stop allowing refugees from there into the Netherlands and to send some back, Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV, said on social media. As a start, the Netherlands should close its borders to all […]
(NL Times) A debate in the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, was cut short by the chair when the topic of controversial past statements made by Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber were brought up by Senator Farah Karimi. The Senate was […]
(NL Times) A few days before a Cabinet containing ministers from the far-right PVV is installed for the first time, party leader Geert Wilders lashed out fiercely against Islam in a post on social media. Wilders said the religion “is a disgusting, […]
(Dutch News) Prospective asylum minister Marjolein Faber has retracted her use of Nazi-era language on immigration, but insisted her concerns about the impact of asylum on the “demographics of the Netherlands” were well founded. The PVV MP came under intense questioning over […]
(NL Times) In the Schoof I Cabinet, integration will fall under the Ministry of Justice and Security, not the Ministry of Social Affairs, as it currently does, Ingrid Coenradie of the far-right PVV, the candidate for state secretary of justice and security, […]
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