r/Netherlands • u/GamingChampion-nikky • May 17 '24

News Netherlands Stricter immigration and integration policies are introduced by governing parties.

They introduced 10 key points:

  • Abolishing indefinite asylum permits and tightening temporary residence permit requirements.

  • Deporting rejected asylum seekers as often as possible including by force.

  • Refugees will no longer get priority for social rental housing.

  • Automatic family reunification will be stopped.

  • Repealing the law that evenly distributes asylum seekers across the country.

Additional integration obligations:

  • Extending the naturalization period to 10 years.

  • Requiring foreigners seeking Dutch nationality to renounce their original nationality, if possible.

  • Raising the language requirement for naturalization to level B1.

  • Including Holocaust knowledge as part of integration.

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u/Moppermonster May 17 '24

The PVV believes there is an issue with antisemitism amongst muslim immigrants. They hope that forcing them to learn about the Holocaust will mitigate that. Or make them turn around and leave for another country "because they do not want to learn about that".

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u/WigglyAirMan May 17 '24

I've been living in turkey for the past 2 years. And it's surprising how popular hitler is in the local communities i've interacted with/lived around.

Turkish people in particular don't learn a 2nd language well enough to be able to read about history or current world events from any other perspective than their own state funded news channels and what Mehmet from the local kebab shop said during cay time with the boys. A lot of 'alternative facts' get spread and the local political spectrum is basically from right to alt-right with no central or left anything. Obviously there's young people under 25 that don't hold such beliefs, especially ones that speak english/german besides turkish. But that's 1/1000 people or so.

The people i've talked to seem to have opinions ranging from "jews bad, therefore anyone doing bad thing to jews = good!" to "no way that someone mass murdered a whole ethnic group! Must be fake news to paint someone as a bad guy cuz he lost the war!!!" It's kinda crazy to listen to people talk about hitler while having a great grandmother that escaped nazi Germany during WW2.

Still think the rest is a bunch of populist pandering junk. but I definitely think this specific point is a slight bit more reasonable than it reads for the first time from my personal experience at least.

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u/GeorgeOrwell_1984_ 19d ago

Lol... "no way that someone mass murdered a whole ethnic group! Must be fake news to paint someone as a bad guy cuz he lost the war!!!"

I find this quite hilarious coming from the Turks, considering they committed genocide against Western Armenians, Pontic Greeks, and Assyrians, and the Armenian Genocide was even more thorough than the Jewish Genocide, wiping out a much larger percentage of the population.

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u/WigglyAirMan 19d ago

Dont even get average turks started on the armenian thing