According to the Dutch point of view, any changes in the immigration rules would make it more difficult to expel rejected immigrants from the respective member countries.
The Netherlands opposes any changes in the legal system of the European Union that would allow immigrants whose asylum applications have been rejected from member countries to return home on a voluntary basis.
It would probably give more rights to those who have exhausted the legal process and thus have no legal basis to stay in our countries
– read a document of the Dutch government obtained by EUobserver
According to the Dutch position, any change in the immigration rules would make it more difficult to expel rejected immigrants from the respective member countries, not to mention that it would undermine the main, general rule that the countries of origin have an obligation to readmit their citizens.
Source: Index
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