Netherlands wants to tighten the migration policy

The Netherlands is counting on the European Union (EU) to make more efforts to tighten migration policy. This was stated by the country’s Prime Minister Dick Schoof during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

,,The Dutch government has already thought about measures to control migration more effectively. We believe that similar steps should be taken at the EU level’’, Schoof said.

According to the Dutch Prime Minister, cooperation with third countries is a major necessity in managing this challenge.

We recall that on September 20, 2024, Schoof said that he would consider the possibility of sending Ukrainian men of conscription age home, including those who avoided mass mobilization, which he stated to the newspaper De Volksrant in response to a request from Geert Wilders, the leader of the nationalist Party for Freedom.

The National Statistics Office released a report in November 2023 stating that 19,000 Ukrainians of draft age were living in the Netherlands. At the same time, at the end of last year, almost 39,000 Ukrainian men were registered in the country.

Earlier, a law enforcement officer was detained in Ukraine for helping people who were not drafted to escape from the country. According to the investigation, at the Volyn border crossing point, the officer did not enter information about people leaving Ukraine into the database. The cost of this law enforcement service was $ 3.500.