DUTCH TOWN BANS UNEMPLOYED EASTERN MIGRANTS FROM SETTING !!!

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By Daily Mail Reporter

28th July 2011




A Dutch town is barring unemployed foreigners from settling in it as from September in a bid to cut welfare costs.

Vaals, in the southern province of Limburg, says it already has too many foreigners from new EU member states on the dole - and doesn't want to subsidise any more.

Most of the annual £400,000 bill to support welfare claimants comes from local taxes.

Alderman Jean-Paul Kompier made the announcement on Wednesday to keep out ‘Europeans without money or income.’ Just across the border, the Belgian town of Plombières introduced the same ban last week.

Both municipalities say they are taking advantage of a get-out clause in the EU which allows them to legally bar residency seekers who have no visible means of support.


These independent declarations of independence in municipalities are deeply worrying to eurocrats in Brussels, which has already fired warning shots across the bows of both countries with little effect.

The fear now is of a xenophobic domino effect across Europe.

Vaals has less than 10,000 inhabitants of whom 300 are living on welfare.
About 40 per cent of those 300 are from other European countries.

According to Alderman Kompier, nine out of every 100 people ‘who want to settle in Vaals apply for benefits.’ The council says the percentage is higher than in major cities such as Rotterdam.
The alderman specifically mentioned Poles and Romanians as having the ‘greatest difficulty’ finding a job because of their limited knowledge of the Dutch language.

Earlier this year the EU Commission warned Holland that it must respect EU rules on the freedom of movement between member states.

Dutch Home affairs minister Henk Kamp threatened to deport Polish migrant workers who lose their jobs or cause a ‘public nuisance.’

That led Europe’s justice commissioner Viviane Reding to warn that it ‘must’ abide by laws allowing free movement of labour.

‘All EU member states are equal and the rules are transparent,’ she said.

Holland has about 200,000 migrant workers from Eastern Europe.
Although this figure is far less than for some other countries – such as the million-plus who have come to Britain since Eastern European accession to the EU in 2004 – the number is growing rapidly.

Poland’s economic affairs minister Waldemar Pawlak called the Vaals situation ‘worrying’, adding: ‘This development is dangerous and could lead to the collapse of the European system of freedom of movement.’

Other than receiving a rebuke from the European Commission, both Holland and Belgium risk being dragged through the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg – which could take many years - if the EU feels that foreigners are being unfairly discriminated against.


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