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The heated Dutch debate about ethnic minorities and their integration could leave the impression that immigration in the Netherlands has been a complete failure. But a government report released this week says some progress has been made in the past ten years.
According to integration minister Eberhard Van der Laan "integration has been largely successful," although he added that "for many it has not".
On Tuesday Van der Laan (Labour) sent an annual report with integration statistics and a letter with the government's vision on the subject to parliament. In his letter Van der Laan offered no specific new measures or policy changes. Instead it was meant to show the government's current thinking about integration, Van der Laan said.