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7 August 2010

Minister endorses SP proposal: asylum seekers with children will not be put onto the street

Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin has suspended any further evictions of families seeking asylum in the Netherlands, in cases where such families include children. The minister's decision follows pressure from SP Members of Parliament Nine Kooiman and Sharon Gesthuizen, which came in response to a case in which a penniless family with a small child were turned out on to the street from the asylum centre in which they had been housed.

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26 July 2010

Thorough enquiry needed into results of Afghan war

The leaked US army logbooks have shown that the war in Afghanistan is bloodier and more difficult than was previously evident. SP spokesman Harry van Bommel is for this reason seeking clarification from the Dutch government as to the precise content of the notes contained in the books.

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22 July 2010

SP: EU must impose sanctions on Romania

SP Euro-MP Dennis de Jong is urging the European Commission to take action against Romania and Bulgaria. The demand comes in response to this week's news that once again progress in the struggle against corruption and for good governance in these countries has been unsatisfactory. In Romania there are even rumours of deliberate obstruction by politicians.

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21 July 2010

'Prolonging the war is no solution for Afghanistan'

“NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen has learnt nothing from the mistakes which have been made in the war in Afghanistan.” This was SP leader Emile Roemer's reaction to Anders Fogh Rasmussen's announcement that the war would be pursued with greater intensity. In the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, major attacks would be carried out and the NATO chief acknowledged that these would cost many lives. “The ground is being prepared for the addition of a bloody round to the war," says Roemer. That is a disastrous path.”

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17 July 2010

Militant Organon workers demonstrate in Oss

More than a thousand people converged on Oss town centre to protest against the loss of almost 2,200 jobs at Organon, a locally-based but internationally-renowned pharmaceutical firm. 'This is the purest example of destruction for profit maximisation for the benefit of the shareholders of the American MSD', said an angry Organon employee, referring to the US parent corporation. 'Everyone in Oss has a family member working at the firm. This is a tragedy for many families.' The mood of the workers is one of sorrow and anger, but militancy is growing.

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16 July 2010

Council of Europe: Dutch Justice Minister must stop turning children out on to the street

Nine KooimanOn 7th July the Council of Europe adopted a resolution calling on the Dutch government to stop allowing children to be turned out on to the street. SP Member of Parliament Nine Kooiman sees this as a clear push in the back. "A majority in parliament voted in 20th May to support a motion proposed by the SP stating that children have a permanent right to a roof over their heads," she points out. "The Christian Democrats voted against, the only one of the three Christian parties to do so. That's really unbelievable. Good thing that the Council of Europe has given Hirsch Ballin, the Christian Democrat Justice Minister, a rap on the knuckles.”

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