“Stop EU asylum policies”. Holland takes hard line on migrants

While the Sweden is studying a measure to increase the voluntary emigration subsidy to 350 thousand crowns and the Germany another Northern European country seals its borders to curb irregular immigration, the Netherlandsprepares to give battle to the Union to obtain theexemption from Community asylum and migration policies.

“I have just informed the European Commission that I want the migration opt-out for the Netherlands. We need to address our asylum policy again”, announced in the last few hours with a note released on his X account the Dutch Minister for Asylum and Migration, Marjolein Faber.

In his letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson, the representative of the Hague government informed the European executive body of the Netherlands’ willingness to drastically reduce immigration to continue to fulfill the national constitutional duties that include the obligation to provide health care, education and public housing to migrants. With the opt-out, the executive led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof aims to implement in the Netherlands “the strictest asylum policy ever”, to be implemented by introducing more stringent immigration rules capable of limiting incoming migrant flows.

To obtain the desired exemption, however, a amendment of the European Treatiessubject to unanimous approval by the twenty-seven EU states. For this reason, it will not be easy for the Hague executive to obtain an opt-out from Brussels. Only three member states have succeeded in the past: Denmark, which withdrew from defense missions and cooperation on security and justice; Ireland, which avails itself of the exemption from the Schengen agreements on free movement and in criminal and judicial matters; and Poland, which instead obtained an opt-out from the binding application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

At least for the moment, Brussels does not seem to be inclined to comply with the Dutch requests: “We do not expect any immediate change in the rules”, a spokesperson for the Commission said. Commissionconfirming receipt of the letter from the Netherlands containing the request for exemption from the common asylum and migration policy. In any case, regardless of whether the Union accepts the Dutch requests or not, what cannot be ignored is the general intolerance of the member states, with Northern Europeans at the forefront, towards the generous community policies on immigration and that idea of ​​unlimited acceptance, so dear to the EU socialists, which today is literally collapsing in the face of the security needs of the European people.