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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
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Asylum Min. demands answers from municipalities with no, too few asylum shelters
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Undated photo of children playing outside at an residential complex for asylum seekers in the Netherlands
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Resistance to asylum shelters led to far-right gains in municipal elections
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Voting pencil
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Local elections underway, with Haaksbergen adding asylum center referendum to ballot
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A woman with her head covered stands on an Amsterdam bridge with a mosque in the background
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Muslim and refugee groups relieved by exit poll results, wary of right-wing gains
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Zwolle city hall
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Zwolle City Council backs asylum shelter plan over far-right objections
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A small group of people gathered at the Ter Apel asylum seeker reception center in November 2014
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Dutch police warn criminalizing illegal stay will harm public safety and trust
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Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber after a debate in Parliament on a vote of no-confidence against her. 2 April 2025
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Asylum distribution law will likely only be scrapped at the end of 2026
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Prime Minister Dick Schoof speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting. 11 April 2025
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Asylum Minister made the decision to delay repeal of asylum distribution law: PM
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Bunk beds
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Asylum Distribution Law: 75,000 shelter spaces will be ready by July 1, COA expects
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Sign at the entrance of the Ter Apel registration center.
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Asylum agency must pay agreed €50,000 fee each day main shelter is overcrowded
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Nurses in a hospital storage room
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Sharp increase in work permits for non-EU migrants and asylum seekers
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Red Cross workers setting up stretchers in a sports hall that will be an emergency shelter for asylum seekers
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More municipalities scrapping asylum center plans over resistance from locals
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Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber contradicts herself about the readiness of her legal argument to declare an asylum emergency. 15 October 2024
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Faber seeks cooperation to address asylum housing shortfall
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Prime Minister Dick Schoof takes questions from reporters after the last Cabinet meeting before the autumn recess. 25 October 2024
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Prime Minister acknowledges risk of Cabinet collapse, but no one has threatened it
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Prime Minister Dick Schoof takes questions from reporters after the last Cabinet meeting before the autumn recess. 25 October 2024
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Prime Minister confirms new asylum measures; Distribution Act to be scrapped
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FvD leader Thierry Baudet in the Tweede Kamer after the vote on his suspension for not disclosing additional job functions. 19 December 2023
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Two far-right FvD campaign videos violate hate speech laws, says prosecutor
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Sign at the entrance of the Ter Apel registration center.
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Dozens of municipalities fed up with Dutch gov't could open their own asylum reception
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An aerial view of Amsterdam, facing south, in 2016
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Amsterdam has over 15 thousand homeless people despite investments in measures