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Dutch more positive about immigrants

Monday 27 April 2009

Some 35% of the Dutch think the Netherlands would be a better place if there were fewer immigrants, compared with 41% at the end of last year.

The figures come from the latest quarterly report on social attitudes from the government's social policy unit SCP.

And while last year 36% of the SCP panel thought the arrival of more nationalities was a good thing, that percentage has now risen to 44%.

Among the other findings: 52% now think membership of the EU is a good thing, compared with 44% a year ago. But there are still more people opposed to the euro than for it - 39% compared with 35%.

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The Dutch EU-skepticism is one of the few things that annoys me in this country.

By José Pedro Magalhães | April 27, 2009 9:45 AM

It is understood because there are fewer immigrants in Netherlands and for native dutch it is plain NO NO for immigrants.
The more immigrants become dutch the more positive result you will get from this kind of poll.

By Shailesh | April 27, 2009 12:38 PM

the poll must differentiate between original dutch nationals, "newly adopted" dutch citizens and those immigrants who are "just to be adopted". We will observe funny dynamics: dutch will stay equally negative-netural, just_to_be_dutch will tend to be positive and adopted_dutch will tend to be negative ("shut the door behind" effect).

By nik | April 28, 2009 12:37 PM

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