Whereas all Europe is engaged in coping with the tragic fallout from the demented insurance policies that allowed unchecked mass migration to wreck most societies within the continent, maybe no different nation has a authorities so engaged in tackling the problem because the Netherlands – in any case, to curb migration is nearly the entire raison d’étre of the present governing coalition.
So, in an anticipated transfer, The Dutch authorities introduced that it means to cap the inhabitants of the nation at 20 million folks by 2050.
To attain this aim, the Dutch should reduce immigration numbers by at least 100,000 folks a yr.
The Telegraph reported:
“After briefing MPs on the plan on Wednesday, Marjolein Faber, the immigration minister, mentioned that the cupboard ‘helps the necessity to work in direction of that situation and to get a grip on migration’.”
Actually, some immigration is required, due to the nation’s ageing inhabitants and the falling beginning charge.
“The Proper-wing coalition led by Dick Schoof, the prime minister, has vowed to implement the Netherlands’ strictest-ever coverage on asylum.
It got here to energy after Geert Wilders, an anti-migrant firebrand, received elections final yr. He’s not within the cupboard as a part of the coalition deal however his Freedom Occasion, which counts Ms. Faber as a member, is.”
A report printed earlier this yr alerts that the Netherlands, with a inhabitants of about 17.88 million, should develop reasonably with a view to preserve ‘broad prosperity’.
The inhabitants’s development can’t exceed 20 million over the subsequent 25 years.
So, a most of 68,000 migrants – be them asylum seekers, employees or college students – will be allowed within the nation yearly.
It’s nonetheless lots, however far lower than the 170,000 folks coming into the Netherlands yearly.
“Failure to curb migrant numbers would imply strain on public companies and housing, authorities ministers wrote to Dutch MPs.”
The shock is that even some opposition figures appear to be inclined to agree with the plan and will help limiting inhabitants development.
Frans Timmermans, Groenlinks-PvdA alliance chief:
“’We have now had an in depth dialogue in our celebration and we have now all come to the perception that authorities steering on how the composition of the inhabitants develops is essential’, he mentioned.”
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