The council of the Security Regions wants 2,000 extra reception places for asylum seekers nationwide in the short term. This is necessary to get the flow from Ter Apel going to some extent. Mayor Koen Schuiling, chairman of the Groningen Security Region, even used the word coercion.
Groningen and Drenthe feel the urgency of more reception of asylum seekers. ‘The situation in Ter Apel is appalling. That realization should also penetrate to the rest of the Netherlands’
