
THE HAGUE, NIS NEWS 06/12/08 – Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan has made it clear in a Lower House debate that he intends to pursue a different course from his ousted predecessor Ella Vogelaar. The new minister said integration is in “a phase of conflict”. And he plans to stop the subsidy to the Marokko.nl website.
* Note the whiny, apologetic tone of this writer:
After a period in which immigrants experienced distress on leaving their country, there is now anger both among them and among the white population. Immigrants sometimes feel driven into a corner, while the Dutch feel the same, because, for example, their women are called names on the street and homosexuals discriminated against, was the tenor of the views outlined by Van der Laan. “Integration is in the phase of conflict,” as he summarised it.









