The Dutch government led by Mark Rutte has fallen
Long and tense negotiations in the Netherlands over refugee policy have not had the desired effect and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government has collapsed, euronews.co.uk reports. The refugee policy was supposed to be translated into measures on migration and asylum, but the four parties in the ruling coalition failed to agree, despite negotiating for three days, and the differences were far too wide.
Basically, politicians have not agreed on how to limit the number of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The initiative came from Mark Rutte's Conservative party, and that's where the dispute started, with two of the four parties refusing to back his proposals.
Rutte called for support for the proposal to restrict the entry of children of war refugees already in the Netherlands and to make families wait at least two years before they can be reunited.
The government failed to agree on measures to limit the flow of asylum seekers. This is what the government reported to The Hague. This is thus the end of the Rutte IV government," says the website of Dutch public television NOS.
Asylum applications in the Netherlands rose by a third last year to more than 46,000. The government has estimated that they could exceed 70,000 in 2023, above the record set in 2015.
Mark Rutte visited Chisinau in January 2022, the first time the Kingdom of the Netherlands has been present in Moldova at prime ministerial level. Mark Rutte also attended the European Political Community Summit, hosted by our country.
