Members of the European Parliament will urge Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to take a clear stance against a website inviting Dutch citizens to post complaints about central and eastern Europeans living in the Netherlands. The website is backed by Geert Wilder's right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV). The portal compiles anonymous complaints about immigrants from the east, mainly Poles, Romanians and Bulgarians. The website argues that since free movement of workers between the Netherlands and eight countries in Central and Eastern Europe was implemented in May 2007, many problems associated with the massive arrival of workers, especially from Poland, materialized.
“Do you have problems with people from Central and Eastern Europe? Have you lost your job to a Pole, Bulgarian, Romanian or other Eastern European? We want to know,” reads a statement on the website. The site has reportedly already generated over 40,000 responses.
"We are worried that the Party for Freedom's portal will set a strong precedent for similar undertakings and will encourage intolerance among citizens of Europe," the EU parliamentarians said on Tuesday. "So far Dutch PM has kept as quiet as a mouse".
For more: European Parliament denounces anti-immigration Dutch website - Warsaw Business Journal - Online Portal - wbj.pl
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