Burning car on New Years Eve in the Netherlands
EU-Digest report on the Netherlands
The Netherlands: Dutch Youth and Country out of control? - What is happening to Holland?
During the new year celebrations hordes of Dutch youngsters and hooligans set fire to cars in many urban areas of the Netherlands. They also threw rocks at ambulances trying to bring people wounded by fireworks to the hospital and at policemen trying to arrest people who were setting fires to cars and acting in a disorderly way. Nearly all of these vandals were "original" Dutch citizens.
The Netherlands is not what it used to be and the Dutch are leaving the country in hordes. This past year the number of Dutch emigrants going to other countries has been unprecedented as well as ‘extraordinary’, according to NIDI (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute) researcher Harry van Dalen.
Government coalition PvdA spokesman for Migration and Integration, Jeroen Dijsselbloem agrees that violence has increased in the Netherlands and that the government isn’t doing enough to combat small crimes such as theft and vandalism. As a result many people are leaving Holland. In 2005 92,000 immigrants arrived whereas 121,000 Dutch citizens left the country.
However Dutch emigrants do return yearly to the Netherlands, in 2005 21,110 emigrants returned and in 2004, 19,447 emigrants. Despite the numbers coming back, the Netherlands continues to be faced with an exodus of mainly well educated people.
With great job opportunities and living conditions in other parts of the EU, and no more work permits required for EU Citizens, most of the young and well-educated Dutch emigrants are now moving to areas which can provide them with the security and quality of life they once had in Holland. France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain are high on the list of these emigrants. Today even large numbers of highly educated second generation Dutch citizens of Turkish descent are returning to Turkey, were they can expect to earn higher salaries and best of all more respect and a better climate. As one Shell employee working at its the Hague headquarters said,"if Total France offers me a job I will be out of here immediately". The Dutch government better take note, because you can't run a country with hooligans in control.
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