Do Lowlands have different criteria for safety and fire risk than in Ter Apel?

terrifying

The government is forcing municipalities to take in asylum seekers with a heavy hand. That is unavoidable, the newspaper writes, because we have to provide decent shelter. We are indeed not going to leave those chilly people who sleep outside to their fate.

But I wonder if the EU treaty on which this humanitarian duty is based could have foreseen that thousands of men, women and children would get into boats and trucks every day and rattle at our gates. That the world has become so dilapidated that unprecedented flows of refugees are starting worldwide.

While we neatly remove ten incendiary mini tents from Ter Apel and dutifully buy a cute country hotel for some extra sleeping places, the globe turns red hot with fires and drought, the cattle lie emaciated in the valleys, millions of unfortunates flee from the rising water , wars, persecutions, fires, poverty and for their own leaders. At a certain point this will no longer be an ordinary flow of refugees, but a migration of people.

Instead of making a futile political asylum seekers-VVD thing out of this, whining about support and looking for old hotels, Rutte cs should have sat down with world leaders in extreme urgency to manage these unprecedented catastrophes. What the country is now hearing from our political leaders is a deafening silence.

And that’s really terrifying.
Trees RooseHaren

Ukrainians

Now the cabinet is finally taking firm measures to solve the reception problem for asylum seekers, we are faced with almost ruthless opposition from local residents. Have they not seen the images around the asylum seekers’ center in Ter Apel?

‘Not in my backyard’, that is the cry of the people living near the hotel in Tubbergen, where an asylum seekers’ center is to be built.

Let the government house three hundred Ukrainians in it, then the asylum seekers will be welcomed with open arms by the local residents.

Maaike van GilstAnimals

Infrastructure

Lowlands attracts around 55 thousand visitors every year. The infrastructure of a medium-sized Dutch city is set up in no time for this three-day festival and cleaned up afterwards. And it has not been possible for months in our country to receive asylum seekers in a humane way?
Jaap LampeHaarlem

Two sizes

In Ter Apel, the donated tents where asylum seekers can sleep are removed under the guise of safety and fire risk. Next weekend there will be a multitude of such tents at the Lowlandscamping. They will probably not be removed by the police and enforcers.

Do Lowlands have different criteria for safety and fire risk than in Ter Apel? Measuring with two standards?
Tabe JorritsmaOostwold

un-Dutch

In Ter Apel there are currently un-Dutch scenes, this newspaper writes. However, there is a clear historical pattern when it comes to our treatment of refugees, migrants and people in need.

A pattern of indifference, fear, annoyance, rudeness, shunning, exclusion and exploitation. Even compatriots or people with a strong bond with the Netherlands experienced this, see our Jewish, Indies, Moluccan and Surinamese communities. And the critical self-reflection and apologies always follow decades later.

Tribute to all who are un-Dutch committed to a respectful treatment of our fellow man.
Martin WillemseUithoorn

Probability calculation

Can someone calculate how the chance of a single average earner on a house compares to that of an asylum seeker on a tent in the open air? Perhaps somewhere in between is the humanity to solve this.
Rachel PostmaDelft

Homeless people

Almost daily I hear and read reports that dozens of asylum seekers have had to spend the night in the open air. In the first instance, I am annoyed by the visionless fiddling of the government in the reception problem. Then I am amazed at the nagging reporting. Almost the same message every day, can you hardly call it news anymore?

I also wonder whether it would also show some humanity to mention every day that about 30,000 homeless people spend the night under bridges, in parks and in subway tunnels.
Paul GerbrandsValkenswaard