Netherlands wants to abandon EU migration rules
The right-wing Dutch government announced that it had asked the European Commission to abandon migration rules in order to be able to impose restrictions on the entry of ‘undesirable persons’, Reuters reports
“I have just informed the EU Commission that I want a migration opt-out within Europe for the Netherlands. We need to be in charge of our own asylum policy again!” Dutch Minister for Migration and Asylum Marjolein Faber said on the social network X.
The government in power since July intends to declare a national asylum crisis, enabling them to exercise control over this issue without parliamentary approval.
Brussels is expected to refuse, given that EU member states, including the Netherlands, agreed on a new migration pact across the bloc in December 2023, the publication reads.
According to EU data, the Netherlands received two asylum applications per 1,000 residents in 2023, lower than the EU’s average.
