A compulsory language test for all three-year-olds and and end to the ‘subsidised integration industry’ will be central to the Liberal party (VVD) election manifesto due to be published later this week, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.

The language test would be carried out to make sure children who need help can have extra lessons before they start school, the paper said. And parents who refuse to cooperate will have their child benefits cut.
The party also plans to stop local councils subsidising separate activities and services for particular immigrant groups such as swimming lessons, the paper says.
Loans
And the cost of the compulsory integration course which new arrivals from outside the EU have to take by law will be passed on to immigrants themselves. Loans will be available for those who cannot pay for the course, the paper says.
The party also wants to include the integration portfolio in the social security ministry after the election. ‘Integration is predominantly a question of participation in the labour market,’ Jan Anthonie Bruijn, chairman of the VVD manifesto committee, told the Telegraaf.
The party also plans to make it a criminal offence for people and organisations to help illegal immigrants and rejected asylum seekers stay in the Netherlands.
The VVD is currently doing well in the opinion polls and has outstripped Geert Wilders’ PVV in popularity.