The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) does not yet know what the fall of the government will mean for the organisation.
“But one thing is certain, we will continue with our daily work at COA: receiving and guiding asylum seekers. We will also continue to work for a stable reception landscape,” says a spokesperson.
The now caretaker cabinet worked on, among other things, a distribution law that was to force municipalities to receive asylum seekers. This was supposed to reduce the pressure on the COA’s application center in Ter Apel and the existing asylum seekers centres. “In the coming period it will become clear what the fall of the cabinet means for new policy and new legislation, such as the distribution law,” says the COA spokesperson.