Faber under fire for refusing to visit municipalities where there was unrest about asylum centre

Civil servants lecture minister Faber in an advertisement in Trouw. It is highly unusual for civil servants to speak out in public like this. Annabel Nanninga explains in Nieuws van de dag how undermining this behavior is for a minister.

Parties in the House of Representatives find it incomprehensible that Faber does not go to municipalities where there was unrest surrounding the meetings about the arrival of an asylum seekers' centre.

The annual facade decoration of café De Blaffende Vis on the Westerstraat is this year dedicated to the ribbon rain, or rather: the affair surrounding Minister Faber who refused to award ribbons. King Willem-Alexander, dressed as the German teacher from the series Rundfunk, can be seen with his thumb up. "You will all receive a ribbon", it reads. "Except you." In his hand, the king is holding a page with the text "It has pleased His Majesty". Th…

In recent weeks, quite a few municipalities in the Netherlands have been confronted with heated protests because asylum centers (AZCs) might be coming. The citizens of the municipalities in question are no longer willing to accept decisions being made above their heads about where and when an AZC will be opened. It has been going on for several months now: people taking to the streets at some municipal information meeting about the arrival of an…

Minister Marjolein Faber does not intend to visit municipalities where meetings about asylum seekers' centres got out of hand. This decision was met with much criticism from the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament on Thursday. Things recently got completely out of hand at meetings about asylum seekers' centres in Uden, Berlicum and Best, among other places. The discussion in Roosendaal was also not without a struggle. Members of parliament from …