Statement of the day | State Secretary Eric van der Burg will prevent outdoor sleepers in Ter Apel this summer

Not in Ter Apel’, is the new mantra of State Secretary Eric van der Burg. The asylum reception is in danger of flooding again, but he wants to avoid scenes like last summer at all costs.

Will the State Secretariat succeed in its mission? respond to the statement of the day: Secretary of State Eric van der Burg will prevent outdoor sleepers in Ter Apel this summer. “In terms of shelter, it is sticking plasters as long as we don’t have a dispersion law,” he said last month.

It seems an almost impossible task because earlier this year people already had to sleep on chairs in the waiting area of ​​the application center. There were not enough beds

The agreement is that the maximum occupancy of two thousand asylum seekers in Ter Apel will no longer be exceeded. But is practice as willing as theory? Can the Secretary of State back up his words? Respond to the statement of the day.

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