The number of asylum seekers entering the labor market increased rapidly after the Council of State scrapped the rule limiting them to working no more than 24 weeks per year. In the whole of 2023, 2,016 asylum seekers received a work permit. In January and February this year, that counter already stood at 1,159, BNR reports based on figures from the benefits agency UWV.
The BBB believes the government should give serious consideration to returning Ukrainian refugees to safe parts of the country. “We cannot accommodate everyone here,” said BBB MP Mona Keijzer in a parliamentary debate on asylum and migration. Her political party is one of four negotiating to form a new Cabinet, along with the PVV, NSC and VVD. Separately, State Secretary Eric van der Burg, the VVD politician in charge of the current caretaker Cabinet's asylum policy, thinks he’ll need at least 600 million euros extra this year to accommodate all asylum seekers, he said in the debate.
The BBB believes the government should give serious consideration to returning Ukrainian refugees to safe parts of the country. “We cannot accommodate everyone here,” said BBB MP Mona Keijzer in a parliamentary debate on asylum and migration. Her political party is one of four negotiating to form a new Cabinet, along with the PVV, NSC and VVD. Separately, State Secretary Eric van der Burg, the VVD politician in charge of the current caretaker Cabinet's asylum policy, thinks he’ll need at least 600 million euros extra this year to accommodate all asylum seekers, he said in the debate.
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