The new hard-right Dutch coalition pledges stricter limits on asylum

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The new hard-right Dutch government has pledged clamp down on migration with stricter policies to hold back or kick out migrants who don’t qualify for asylum.  The vow came Tuesday as the mostly ceremonial king laid out the administration’s plans for the coming year in a speech to open the parliamentary year. Dutch King Willem-Alexander outlined the wide-ranging policy blueprint in a speech a day after members of the hard right-led coalition publicly bickered over its plans to drastically slash migration. The king — in a speech written by the government — said that “problems are particularly urgent in the asylum chain” and the government will urgently do all in its power “to reduce the number of asylum applications.”