Election Year or Fear!

[MadAmster]

Elections? Looks like Germany is falling apart at the seams, politically. New elections predicted in the first quarter of 2025 and the far right AfD is expected to get a landslide. The Dutch coalition is starting to fall apart. At Minister's Questions yesterday, the Immigration Minister was defending her new budget, and failing dramatically. From 2027, she's reducing the budget for the IND (Immigratie en Naturalisatie Dienst) and the COA (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers) by 80%. She failed to address the shortfall she's planning for. Over the next few years they intend to allow less immigrants, be they coming here to work, study or to apply for asylum. There's a huge backlog of asylum claims. They're stopping the funding now and laying people off who work in the 2 departments. How do they intend to clear the backlog? How are they going to fund it?

The role of the lower house in the Netherlands, is to act as a control mechanism for Cabinet plans. The Minister was unable (or unwilling) to answer MPs questions. It was a debacle. She really ought to be sacked and replaced with someone capable as she, clearly, isn't.

I've said all along that this coalition wouldn't last long. Looks like I'll be right.

For me, the biggest problem is that the far right PVV, who currently have 39 of the 150 seats and is the largest party of the 15 with 1 or more seats, will get significantly more at the election.

How many more will follow and see the EU fall apart?

[Trickytreesreds]

Elections? Looks like Germany is falling apart at the seams, politically. New elections predicted in the first quarter of 2025 and the far right AfD is expected to get a landslide. The Dutch coalition is starting to fall apart. At Minister's Questions yesterday, the Immigration Minister was defending her new budget, and failing dramatically. From 2027, she's reducing the budget for the IND (Immigratie en Naturalisatie Dienst) and the COA (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers) by 80%. She failed to address the shortfall she's planning for. Over the next few years they intend to allow less immigrants, be they coming here to work, study or to apply for asylum. There's a huge backlog of asylum claims. They're stopping the funding now and laying people off who work in the 2 departments. How do they intend to clear the backlog? How are they going to fund it?

The role of the lower house in the Netherlands, is to act as a control mechanism for Cabinet plans. The Minister was unable (or unwilling) to answer MPs questions. It was a debacle. She really ought to be sacked and replaced with someone capable as she, clearly, isn't.

I've said all along that this coalition wouldn't last long. Looks like I'll be right.

For me, the biggest problem is that the far right PVV, who currently have 39 of the 150 seats and is the largest party of the 15 with 1 or more seats, will get significantly more at the election.

How many more will follow and see the EU fall apart?

I despair at the deniers as to the European rise of the right.
Folks have had enough of the same old soft left/liberal leaders, who think the everyday person on the street. is there to do as they are told and like it.

Much as this will trigger RA, the flooding of immigration in Europe has fuelled this. Crime/ poverty/ social friction has seen cultural identity eroded and the rise in crime and terrorism.
Poland says no. Hungary says no, despite EU howls of protest. They have not had one jot of the problems the rest of Europe has.
Had the EU / governments resisted/regulated it, there would be no need for AFD/ National rally/ Brothers of Italy/ Reform etc.

Keep ignoring it and watch what happens