opt-out

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Marjolein Faber and Ylva Johansson meet at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting. 10 October 2024
Politics
EU members highly critical of Dutch attempt to opt-out of migration rules
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GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans holds up a heavily redacted memo from advisors telling Prime Minister Dick Schoof and Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber that there is not a legal basis to declare an asylum emergency. 19 September 2024
Politics
Heavily redacted memo: Officials do not think Cabinet can simply declare asylum “crisis”
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Prime Minister Dick Schoof during the second day of the Budget Debate in the Tweede Kamer, 19 September 2024
Politics
Budget debate suspended immediately as MPs demand legal basis for asylum crisis decree
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PVV parliamentarian Marjolein Faber during a Tweede Kamer debate on state of correctional facilities in the Netherlands, 21 May 2024
Politics
Hungary following Dutch example and asking for opt-out on EU asylum policy
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GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans speaking in the first parliamentary debate with the Schoof I Cabinet, 3 July 2024
Politics
EU says Dutch asylum opt-out won't happen soon; Timmermans pushes foreign student cuts
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Minister Marjolein Faber of Asylum and Migration signing a letter asking the European Commission to give the Netherlands an opt-out on EU asylum policy, 18 September 2024
Politics
Netherlands officially asks EU for "opt-out" on asylum policy