The District Court of The Hague ruled against the outgoing Cabinet on Wednesday, saying the Netherlands cannot arbitrarily end the temporary protection of three third-country nationals from Ukraine starting on September 4. The ruling is the result of separate lawsuits filed by two third-country nationals of Indian citizenship and one of Moroccan citizenship. The Ministry of Justice and Security said the ruling will not hinder their plans to stop the reception of third-country nationals beginning on Monday.
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The European Union and Tunisia have reached an agreement on migration. In exchange for hundreds of millions of euros, Tunisia will take measures to stop the clandestine crossing of migrants. Prime Minister Mark Rutte spoke of a “true milestone.” He had flown to the North African country with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday to clear the last obstacles to the deal. They were also in Tunis a month ago but then failed to reach an agreement.
The agreement reached by European Union countries on the reception, return, and distribution of asylum seekers will help Prime Minister Mark Rutte to reduce the influx of migrants to the Netherlands as he promised, said State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum). But more is needed, he said after the breakthrough in the long-standing deadlock in the European asylum policy.
Twenty asylum seekers staying in a crisis shelter in Purmerend went on hunger strike on Monday evening, the Zaanstreek-Waterland Security Region confirmed. The asylum seekers are using the hunger strike to draw attention to the lengthy review procedure and delays at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND).