From Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam and The Hague has sent a letter to Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem (Finance) and Ronald Plasterk (Interior) in which they threaten to discontinue the reception of the eight thousand asylum seekers, reports the Volkskrant on Monday.
“We can not participate in the reception of new citizens and handles fail to provide these people a fair chance at independence and participation in their new home,” said the letter.
the city talking for months with the government on a financial compensation for the reception. But there’s hundreds of millions of euros difference between what the government provides and what to see municipalities.
The municipalities want an applicant received about eight thousand euros from the government. This money is spent on a house but also to asylum seekers to take a step in the right direction in society.
The Interior Ministry announced that the government and the municipalities are in discussion on this subject.
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‘insoluble dilemmas
Several opposition parties want the government meets the municipalities. “This government puts municipalities an insoluble dilemma,” says D66 MP Sjoerd Sjoerdsma.
“Municipalities must now choose between two evils: or poor reception of newcomers which threatens integrate disaster or cut back on regular municipal services which is undesirable and therefore the government will municipalities need to reach out.”.
SP MP Sharon Gesthuizen: “it is high time that the government takes the concerns and needs of the municipalities seriously”
Beneficiaries
Linda Voortman (GroenLinks) thinks that. the government “beneficiaries creates” by not coming across the bridge.
“Municipalities are right that they should be given the opportunity to invest in participation and independence of people who are applying for asylum here. If you do not want do you just create but new beneficiaries, “said GroenLinks politician.
CDA MP Mona Keijzer wants the cabinet once good is going to bring the cost into perspective, also for the longer term. “They allow municipalities are now with the pieces and thus the Dutch population,” says Keijzer
Gesthuizen has the subject registered for the oral Question Tuesday
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