Eric van der Burg

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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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Femke Halsema
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Mayor pleads with Minister to reconsider Amsterdam boy's deportation to Armenia
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Court gavel with a statue of Lady Justice in the background
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Amsterdam-born boy, 11, will be deported to Armenia, Council of State rules
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Dick Schoof (middle) with Joe Biden (left) and Jens Stoltenberg (right) at a NATO summit in Washington D.C., United States. 11 July 2024
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"Great respect" for Biden, Dutch PM says after withdrawal from U.S. presidential race
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Child holding a suitcase
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Amsterdam-born boy, 11, facing deportation to Armenia over strict child asylum rules
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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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"Unacceptable risk" of violence at Ter Apel; Asylum stop won't work, State Sec. says
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Afghan refugees on so-called Balkan route.
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IND had figures on family reunification before election, far lower than Yeşilgöz claimed
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Red Cross tents at the asylum registration center in Ter Apel, 16 June 2022
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Overcrowding at Dutch refugee shelters expected; Asylum seekers will sleep on the grass
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Undated photo of children playing outside at an residential complex for asylum seekers in the Netherlands
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New coalition scraps asylum distribution law, "sharply limits" family reunification
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Asylum seekers on Lesbos
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Netherlands joins call to shetler intercepted asylum seekers in non-EU countries: report
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Eric van der Burg
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Third-country nationals from Ukraine can stay for now, State Secretary says
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Empty beds in a shelter
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Council of State asks EU court if NL can deport third-country nationals from Ukraine
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Smoke rising from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, 7 October 2023
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Dutch gov't must process Palestinian asylum requests; Will keep exporting F-35 parts
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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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Formation parties could declare "asylum crisis" to enable more extreme measures: report
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GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans in a parliamentary debate on the Cabinet formation talks between PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB, 29 March 2024
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GL-PvdA might work with VVD, Timmermans says amid annoyance over another Wilders tweet
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Eric van der Burg
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Relief that Wilders won't be Prime Minister, State Sec. says in asylum debate
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Empty beds in a shelter
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Only few municipalities have evicted third-country nationals from shelters
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Empty beds in a shelter
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Many cities not evicting third-country nationals yet as court rules another 90 can stay