Etiket: Apel
Mayor Westerwolde receives Machiavelli Prize for efforts at Ter Apel
Mayor Jaap Velema of the municipality of Westerwolde will receive the Machiavelli Prize this year. The Machiavelli Foundation has announced this. The prize is awarded annually to someone who has…
What do residents of Ter Apel think of the dispersal law? ‘No one wants safekeepers’
What do the residents of Ter Apel and surrounding areas think about the much-discussed dispersal law, which will be adopted in the Senate on Tuesday? Are they in favor or…
Mayor Westerwolde thanks Groningen colleagues for support in the Ter Apel issue and takes another swipe at The Hague
In his New Year’s speech, Mayor Jaap Velema of Westerwolde thanked his Groningen colleagues for their support in the battle for better asylum reception in Ter Apel In the same…
Honor for youth fire brigade and shame about asylum reception in Coevorden. ‘Our neighbors in Ter Apel are just worried about it’
Mayor Renze Bergsma praised the youth fire brigade in Coevorden in his New Year’s speech on Monday evening. The 25 members were guests of honor at the meeting. “I saw…
Emmen Mayor Van Oosterhout sneers at municipalities without asylum shelters. ‘It’s shocking that the Ter Apel disaster leaves them indifferent’
After congratulations and prizes for deserving Emmen residents, Mayor Eric van Oosterhout also made a serious contribution on Friday evening during his municipality’s New Year’s party. “It is shocking that…
Mayor Emmen: ‘Disaster Ter Apel leaves too many municipalities indifferent’
Mayor Eric van Oosterhout believes that too many municipalities in the Netherlands ignore the reception of asylum seekers. “Let me make no bones about it. I think something of municipalities…
‘In The Hague, formation weighs more heavily than Ter Apel’: Mayor Jaap Velema looks back and forward
Mayor Jaap Velema of Westerwolde is hopeful that the nuisance will decrease in Ter Apel soon after the New Year, but also fears for 2024. Velema is afraid that the…
Enough emergency shelters in Christmas week, crisis in Ter Apel averted
A new emergency at the registration center in Ter Apel between Christmas and New Year appears to have been averted in the nick of time. In recent days, several municipalities…
Westerwolde takes COA to court over ‘inhumane’ situation in Ter Apel
The municipality of Westerwolde, where Ter Apel is located, will take the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) to court. Mayor Jaap Velema announced this on Friday…
Ter Apel, poor tenants and farmers have to wait a while. The right-wing cabinet in the making is taking Christmas vacation
There is still considerable debate in the House of Representatives. But groundbreaking results were not forthcoming. Everything and everyone is waiting for a new cabinet. The parties investigating this first…