In a letter to the House of Representatives, the minister points out that it was not possible to successfully appeal to Article 72 TFEU, so that it probably does not stand legally in this case. With Article 72, countries can temporarily extract from EU rules under the guise of protection of public order.
The minister thus implicitly responds to PVV leader Geert Wilders, who in his 10-point plan ‘the border was reached’ deeply deployed heavily on invoking Article 72 TFEU in order to set national asylum rules above European law. Wilders wanted to close the boundaries on the basis of Article 72 TFEU and temporarily stop family reunification. According to Keijzer, that route is not possible.
Week of the truth asylum laws
It is an important week for Keijzer because the minister tries to compete in for the asylum laws from PVV and CDA. This week the House of Representatives votes on the asylum laws.
The CDA says it wants to focus on a stricter asylum policy, but requires an adjustment. With regard to the party, the two -state system must simultaneously start with the European Migration Pact, which will be on the agenda for next June. But the PVV does not want to agree with a ‘weak extract’ of the asylum laws.
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Wait the version test
Keijzer announced on Monday in her asylum letter that the IND will get ‘very much’ hay on the fork in the run-up to the introduction of the EU migration pact. But they don’t just move with the CDA. The minister indicates that he wanted to wait for the implementation test that must be ready in September. And if that gives rise to a different picture of the IND, then measures on the timing of the law can be taken.
At the same time, the minister states that the new native conditions can be applied immediately step by step. The CDA is not convinced of this, but Keijzer says after conversations with the IND: “It is actually possible.”
These new native conditions are intended to limit the number of migrants who come to the Netherlands through family reunification. “The asylum shelter is overloaded, the housing market cannot handle it,” she writes in the letter. In the meantime, around 65,000 n00s are waiting abroad for permission to come to the Netherlands.
The PVV requires a tightening of the present asylum laws. The party of Wilders wants to regulate the withdrawal of the Spreading Act in the asylum measures Act. But that is already arranged by Keijzer in another proposal, she indicates. “I am working on it. It is just like a pregnancy. When it is ready, it will come,” said the minister in the debate last week. It is precisely for the PVV that it is ‘very important’ that it is regulated in the asylum measures law.
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The 10-point plan was the reason for Wilders to pull the plug out of the cabinet. The PVV leader wanted to tighten the policy with ten extra measures because it was not going fast enough for him. There was such a lot of disagreement about this that further cooperation was no longer possible.
At the same time, Keijzer emphasizes that the Netherlands, like Germany and Austria, is preparing measures to limit the asylum inflow. The difference is that the Dutch bill, such as the two -state system, is legally on solid land. The question now is whether the minister finds sufficient support for obtaining the law.
‘Strictest asylum policy ever’
With these two asylum laws, the cabinet wants to focus on ‘the strictest asylum policy ever’. The Asylum Measures Act includes the abolition of a permanent residence permit, limiting the period of a temporary asylum permit from five to three years, shortening nuclear families and measures to make asylum procedures more efficient.
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The other proposal therefore consists of the so -called reintroduction of the two -state system, which makes a distinction between people who flee from a war zone and people who are personally prosecuted. This gives extra possibilities to limit the influx of nicizers into the second group.