While all Europe is engaged in dealing with the tragic fallout from the demented policies that allowed unchecked mass migration to wreck most societies in the continent, perhaps no other country has a government so engaged in tackling the issue as the Netherlands – after all, to curb migration is almost the whole raison d’étre of the current governing coalition.
So, in an expected move, The Dutch government announced that it means to cap the population of the country at 20 million people by 2050.
To achieve this goal, the Dutch will have to cut immigration numbers by no less than 100,000 people a year.
The Telegraph reported:
“After briefing MPs on the plan on Wednesday, Marjolein Faber, the immigration minister, said that the cabinet ‘supports the need to work towards that scenario and to get a grip on migration’.”
In fact, some immigration is needed, because of the country’s ageing population and the falling birth rate.
“The Right-wing coalition led by Dick Schoof, the prime minister, has vowed to implement the Netherlands’ strictest-ever policy on asylum.
It came to power after Geert Wilders, an anti-migrant firebrand, won elections last year. He is not in the cabinet as part of the coalition deal but his Freedom Party, which counts Ms. Faber as a member, is.”
A report published earlier this year alerts that the Netherlands, with a population of about 17.88 million, must grow moderately in order to maintain ‘broad prosperity’.
The population’s growth can’t exceed 20 million over the next 25 years.
So, a maximum of 68,000 migrants – be them asylum seekers, workers or students – can be allowed in the country every year.
It’s still a lot, but far less than the 170,000 people coming into the Netherlands annually.
“Failure to curb migrant numbers would mean pressure on public services and housing, government ministers wrote to Dutch MPs.”
The surprise is that even some opposition figures seem to be inclined to agree with the plan and could support limiting population growth.
Frans Timmermans, Groenlinks-PvdA alliance leader:
“’We have had an extensive discussion in our party and we have all come to the insight that government steering on how the composition of the population develops is very important’, he said.”
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