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The Dutch cabinet wants to make agreements within the EU on sending asylum seekers back to the European country they were in before reaching their final destination.
Junior justice minister Mark Harbers, who focuses on refugee policy, said in an interview with the Volkskrant on Friday that this would mean asylum seekers who entered the Netherlands from Belgium or Germany would be sent back to those countries.
In turn, Belgium and Germany could send the refugee back to the EU country they had traveled though to reach the Belgian and German borders.
‘If refugees know this is how Europe works, they will be discouraged from moving on,’ Harbers told the paper.