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"An acquaintance of mine sent me the following Facebook post the other day: ‘I lived in the Netherlands for 20 years. From birth, the Dutch are a very tolerant people; something like this would have been inconceivable back then. Today, this is all due to a wave of right-wing radicalism’. This was in response to the news story that the Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, launched a website encouraging people to file complaints against Central and Eastern Europeans taking employment in the Netherlands. Four years ago, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the right-wing government of the Netherlands distanced himself from the anti-Islamic film released by Wilders’s party. Back then, the government was not yet dependant on the support of a radical, extremist party. The current right-wing minority cabinet, however, is unwilling to condemn the creation of this website. This is because its survival depends on the support it receives from Geert Wilders and his associates. The Dutch Government is perfectly aware that the 200 000 Central Europeans who have been legally employed in the Netherlands since May 2007 are not adding to existing problems but, on the contrary, contribute to the welfare of the country’s citizens. The data of Dutch economic researchers show that a Polish or Hungarian worker taking long-term employment in the Netherlands contributes an annual EUR 24 000 to treasury income. We expect the Dutch Government to not only condemn all xenophobic, hatemongering actions on the part of the Party for Freedom, as well as all forms of discrimination, but also to provide factually accurate information to the populace about how foreigners, including immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe, contribute to the prosperity of their country."@en1

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