Dutch Parliament Halts Deportations
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Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, left, and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, right, during a meeting at the parliament in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec.Comment
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DEN HELDER, The Netherlands  - A Dutch floating  abortion clinic set sail for Portugal Monday despite an attempt  by the Dutch government to restrict its activities and after  visits to Ireland and Poland stoked controversy.
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, pictured in 2006. The parties of the incoming centre-left Dutch government have agreed to grant amnesty for some 30,000 failed asylum seekers who came to the ...Comment
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Dutch voters picked a new parliament Wednesday in an election that could determine whether the country's tight immigration rules get even tougher or follow what the opposition calls a more humane path.Comment
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LISBON : Three members of an extremist Dutch Islamic group were arrested and deported from Portugal just before the Euro 2004 football championship in June on suspicion of planning an attack, the former head of Portugal&#39;s police force said in comments
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One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands said Friday the country's democracy is under threat and called for a five-year halt to non-Western immigration in the wake of the killing of a Dutch filmmaker by a suspected Muslim radical.
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The Dutch government is set to impose a ban on the Muslim burqa in schools and government offices, media reported on Wednesday, in a retreat from the previous cabinet's plan for a general ban.
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Queen Beatrix began discussions Friday with the leaders of the 10 parties that won sets in the new parliament, elections that could lead to an easing of the Netherlands' tough immigration policy.
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Cape Town - The deportation last week of a Congress of SA Trade Unions delegation from Zimbabwe was unfortunate, but had happened because the visit was politically motivated, parliament&#39;s foreign affairs portfolio committee was told on Wednesday.
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The Dutch cabinet holds crisis talks after parliament censures hardline Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk.
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THE HAGUE, Nov. 23 -- Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's right-of-center Christian Democratic Appeal party, which has led efforts to curtail Muslim immigration at a time of growing xenophobia in the Netherlands, won the most seats in parliamentary elections Wednesday,  but voters voiced...
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[JURIST] BBC News is reporting that incoming EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has withdrawn his proposed slate of Commissioners from consideration by the European Parliament after a dispute over the inclusion of controversial Justice portfolio
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AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch prime minister's center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats in elections yesterday but nearly complete returns showed a sharply splintered -- and possibly deadlocked -- parliament with no alliance winning a clear mandate to govern.
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Several leading Dutch politicians seen as critical of Islam have been threatened with death since the murder of a filmmaker, as the Dutch Government announced a crackdown on Islamic extremists.
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One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands said yesterday his country&#39;s democracy is under threat and called for rejecting immigration from non-Western nations in
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The parties of the incoming centre-left Dutch government have agreed to grant amnesty for some 30,000 failed asylum seekers who came to the Netherlands before April 2001, Dutch media reported.
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Dutch police arrest three suspects after a counterterror operation in The Hague.