Again, 300 folks expended the evening outdoors at the Ter Apel application centre

– ANP – Information from the NOS•today, 16:37 — At the Ter Apel AOC registration centre, persons slept outdoors all over again past night. There were being about 300 of them. It was so occupied for times in a row that hundreds of people experienced to invest the evening outside the house. – About 250 … Read more

‘COA is on the verge of collapse: major shortage of personnel and high absenteeism’ | NOW

The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) is about to collapse. This is shown by research by NRC and has been confirmed by COA. Asylum seekers centers across the country are struggling with a lot of staff loss. In Ter Apel, the largest asylum seekers’ center in the Netherlands, nearly one in … Read more

Alkmaar and Horst aan de Maas together accommodate 325 asylum seekers from Ter Apel | NOW

The municipalities of Alkmaar and Horst aan de Maas (North Limburg) together receive 325 asylum seekers to relieve the pressure on the application center in Ter Apel. From 8 August, 175 asylum seekers will be temporarily accommodated in the Sportpaleis in Alkmaar, and 150 asylum seekers can temporarily stay in Horst aan de Maas from … Read more

Tuesday emergency meeting about reception of asylum seekers: locations still needed this week | NOW

State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum) will hold an emergency meeting with Koen Schuiling and Hubert Bruls on Tuesday evening about large-scale reception of asylum seekers. There are still large reception locations to be opened this week, if necessary with “very unpleasant directives”, says Bruls on Monday after the Security Council. Bruls will be … Read more