A senior official involved in the implementation of asylum and refugee policy in the Netherlands has resigned, saying he will not work with a coalition government that includes Geert Wilders’s far-right Freedom Party because it is “inherently undemocratic”. Rutger Groot Wassink, who was chair of the Dutch local authorities’ asylum committee, as well as social affairs chief responsible for asylum strategy in Amsterdam, left office with a scathing attack on the country’s new right-wing coalition, which is now almost complete. Mr Wilders’s party was the big winner in the general election in November, and since then has been involved in...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
