The Netherlands will have to see if asylum seekers outside the European Union can go through their asylum procedures. The majority in the House believe that this has to do with Denmark, which is already working on it. As well as a number of right-wing opposition parties, the coalition parties VVD and CDA also voted in favor.
Denmark has controversial plans to send people to Rwanda if they apply for asylum. They will then be admitted there and must await their asylum procedures. The country prefers to cooperate with other European member states for this purpose. If it’s up to the DPR, the Netherlands is one of them.
The proposal to work with Denmark came from JA21 Member of Parliament Joost Eerdmans. The motion states that this approach ‘offers promising opportunities for the Netherlands to deal with the current asylum crisis’. Secretary of State Eric van der Burg (Asylum) said earlier in the debate that he could accept the summons, although he emphasized that the Netherlands would remain ‘in international agreements and agreements’.
Pull together
The motion calls for the Netherlands to ‘compensate’ with Denmark, without specifying what that means. If it were up to the Eerdmans applicant, Van der Burg “didn’t just talk or drink coffee”, but he would have to actually make plans with Denmark for asylum facilities beyond European borders. ,,Then at least there is more coordination, because now it’s certainly a hodgepodge. It leaks like a basket.”
Eerdmans wasn’t worried about the European agreement. “It’s not that Denmark is avoiding that, we’ve been exploring it too.” Although Denmark has negotiated an extraordinary position in Brussels, they don’t even need one for this aspect of asylum policy, according to the JA21 leader. Nobody said that a country’s asylum procedures had to be completed on its own territory, he said. He hopes the procedure outside the EU will also have a discouraging effect.
London
The British government made an agreement with Rwanda last year to send asylum seekers to the country. The first deportation flight, in mid-June, was canceled due to a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It was ruled that there was a “real risk of irreversible harm” to the asylum seekers involved.
Britain’s Supreme Court ruled late last year that it was lawful to make arrangements with the Rwandan government about sending asylum seekers, but in January gave eight individual asylum seekers permission to appeal against that decision.
At the end of last year, more than 120,000 people in the UK were waiting for their asylum applications to be processed. Their numbers nearly quadrupled between December 2017 and June 2022, the Refugee Council announced.
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