When is the limit reached? This question arises in view of the deteriorating situation in Ter Apel. Now 700 people sleep outside every night, it is unsafe and the health of asylum seekers is also at risk.
According to Marli Huijer, emeritus professor of public philosophy in Rotterdam and former Thinker Laureate, the developments show ‘an enormous unwillingness’ to help these people. “And that’s painful. We should be able to solve this easily with more than 17 million Dutch people, how many people is it all about? We are such an incredibly rich country, we are experts in organizing festivals for example. And then we couldn’t do this?”