The European Commission pointed out, on Thursday 16 May, that the Netherlands had “voted in favour of the Pact on Migration and Asylum” and that there was “no opt-out clause for the Netherlands”.
Furthermore, all Member States have an obligation to take charge of people who have applied for international protection, it stressed.
The Commission was reacting to the announcement made on the same day by Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch PVV, that the four parties soon to come to...