The next general election may be over a year away, but the government is starting to posture on what will be a major issue: Immigration. Christian Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Hugo de Jonge said he backed new limits on immigration.
De Jonge said in an interview that the Netherlands needs extra skills and workers, and that it should continue to take in refugees. The Netherlands, he said, does extremely well when it comes to solidarity ‘but, if we want to continue in this way, we have to set limits."
De Jonge declined to give exact figures, preferring instead to talk about ‘targets’. Allowing in 80,000 migrants a year is too many, he said ‘if you calculate how that adds up over time’.
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