International

Are you unwilling any longer to charge headlong towards an ever more powerful European Superstate? Do you want from now on to have the last word when it comes to what we in our own country decide and not leave it to Brussels’ meddling? Do you want to cooperate when cooperation is useful, but keep control of everything that we can better regulate for ourselves? Then you must decide who will best make your voice heard in Europe.

Cooperation over asylum between EU member states has ground to a halt. The number of people requesting asylum is growing ever greater. This is especially true in Italy, Greece, Spain and Bulgaria, but the Netherlands too is having to cope with more asylum seekers who have travelled unlawfully through other European countries. ‘Countries with long exterior borders are increasingly failing to process requests for asylum, while refused asylum seekers can often not be deported to their country of origin. Detention of such people is then used as a means of pressuring the asylum seekers to move on independently, so that they end up being detained intermittently for years. Medical attention, in addition, is inadequate, leading to degrading situations.’