Campaign group loses court case for more refugees PoliticsSociety March 24, 2017 Photo: Depositphotos.com A campaign group that wants to make the Netherlands take the number of refugees agreed with the European Union lost its court case on Friday, reports the Parool. We Gaan Ze Halen, a charitable foundation whose name means ‘let’s bring them here’, is attempting to force the Dutch state to take 8,712 refugees from camps in Greece and Italy, as agreed with other EU members states in September 2015. The Dutch have another six months to fulfil this pledge, having taken around 1,400 people so far – the organisation claims – and a judge in The Hague ruled that because the deadline is not yet up, it is too soon to rule on the matter. The foundation will appeal. ‘It is distressing that the court finds that it is too soon to judge this claim when refugees have often been sitting in camps for two years,’ said the organisation’s lawyers, Gert-Jan van den Bergh and Adriaan Stoop to the Parool. Last year the organisation demonstrated by driving cars to The Hague to show they would pick refugees up themselves, if necessary. It has been campaigning for almost a year to oblige the state to fulfil its part in the EU pledge to take in 160,000 refugees. The subject of refugees has been contentious in the Netherlands. Although numbers dropped dramatically last year after a peak in October 2015, immigration was one of the key issues in the Dutch general elections.
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Quinx •
7 hours ago
If enough of those supposedly civilized refugees immigrated to the Salafist countries, they could swing the balance to a less barbaric form of Islam in that part of the world. Go East, young men! Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States are lovely this time of the year!
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keith dodd •
8 hours ago
"As agreed with theEU." Thank heaven for Brexit.
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Valentijn •
13 hours ago
Too bad. It sounds like the living conditions for refugees are horrific HE HE
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JayJay Valentijn •
8 hours ago
Aw, poor rapefugees. No high speed wifi or jihadi allowance every week? Such a shame. I bet they only get 3 meals a day too. Terrible torture. Incidentally, I just got back from Athens last week. Maybe if it's so bad there, they should try all the other countries they crossed through while flouting international conventions.
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Valentijn JayJay •
7 hours ago
bho ho
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NotSuperstitious JayJay •
8 hours ago
Maybe Obama can send them some Obama-phones?
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Swanodile Valentijn •
3 hours ago
If the NL was accepting more of them the living conditions in Greece would have been better I assume.
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Pogmothoin •
2 hours ago
The lefties on this site are always complaining about made up stats but when it comes to refugees it is fair game to "make up" the stats.
I have not bothered to follow to closely the number of "newcomers" who poured into NL after Merkel opened the doors but I am sure it was considerably more than the 9,000 these fools are complaining about!!!
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DesertedPictures •
6 hours ago
Look: the NL agreed to this deal. And we should keep our word. But this case was ridiculous: it was 6 months before the deadline and NL is ahead of other nations.
More on point: we are doing our part. When are countries like Poland stepping up. You know the nations that are always up in arms if we try to put in place any barrier for their citizens. But now that we need their help, they don't do anything. We have taken in a lot of refugees. We have done are part. Now let them share the burden. (Or let them stop sharing the EU benefits)
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NotSuperstitious •
8 hours ago
Too bad they're subject to the demands of the EU - they are losing their soverienty.