Refugees could be fined or lose residency for failing to uphold Dutch values

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Refugees could be fined or lose residency for failing to uphold Dutch values

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/12022802/Refugees-told-to-be-good-neighbours-and-speak-Dutch-if-they-want-to-stay-in-Netherlands.html

Newcomers told to be good neighbours and speak Dutch if they want to stay in Netherlands, as country adopts tougher approach on migration

By Senay Boztas, Amsterdam

6:35PM GMT 28 Nov 2015

All non-EU newcomers to the Netherlands will now be forced to sign a declaration saying they will uphold Dutch values, or pay a fine of up to €1250 and have their residency revoked.

These values include upholding people’s freedoms, being a good neighbour and participating in society – for example, speaking Dutch. The measures are part of a harder line on immigration in the Netherlands, which Lodewijk Asscher, social affairs minister, described as the “warm heart and cool head” approach.

He wrote in a letter to Dutch MPs on Friday that the government was “committed to reducing the number of refugees” and acknowledged concerns about threats to jobs and houses, and about “which culture they bring along with them”.

The measures come days after Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, warned that the “massive influx” of refugees threatens the fall of Europe. The Netherlands has suggested reducing the size of the Schengen open-border agreement with 26 countries in early November, and on January 1 2016, the country takes on the presidency of the EU.

Mr Asscher said refugees with permission to stay would be housed in “clean but austere” housing, and had a “personal responsibility to integrate, to learn the language and find work”.

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Integration is good. Assimilation generally doesn't work.

They're walking a fine line.