Some 57,000 people moved to the Netherlands between July and September, the highest figure in 10 years, the NRC reports on Saturday, quoting new information from the national statistics office CBS.

Most of the new arrivals came from another EU country. Poland accounted for 6,000, followed by Germany, Britain and Spain.
Outside Europe, China accounted for some 2,600 immigrants and Russia 2,200.
The number of new arrivals from ‘non-western’ countries was marginal: 651 Moroccan nationals and 1,136 people from Turkey. New Moroccan immigration was largely offset by 412 people who returned to the north African country.
Pledge
Nevertheless, the absolute increase would appear to go against the cabinet’s pledge to halve non-western immigration, the NRC says.
This is one of the main demands of the anti-Islam PVV which made tougher immigration laws a condition of its support for the minority coalition on economic policy.
In a statement, immigration minister Gerd Leers said: ‘The growth is due to movements within the EU. This is big and is growing but we have little influence over it.’
The third-quarter figures were double that of Q2, but immigration is always highest in the third quarter, the NRC said.