The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
Conflicts over asylum, farms and the constitution could bring it down
THE MS GALAXY 1 once ferried passengers between Finland and Sweden. Since 2022, the massive ship has been moored in Amsterdam, where the city leases it as accommodation for 1,500 asylum applicants, 500 of them already approved. The boat is not bad, says Haymar Nyein, a Myanmar opposition activist who came on a UN study tour of The Hague and requested asylum in July after images of her protesting in Yangon made it risky to go back.
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Europe October 5th 2024
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- The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
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