Ministers will on Friday agree to press on with their plan to introduce tough new rules for immigrants who want to bring wives or husbands to the Netherlands, the Telegraaf reports.

The cabinet wants to impose a higher age limit – 24 – on partners and to restrict the right to bring a partner into the country to those earning more than 120% of the minimum wage. The age limit is currently 21.
The changes require amendments to European law and immigration minister Gerd Leers has been intensively lobbying for support among other EU countries, the paper says.
The changes are at the insistence of the anti-Islam PVV, which has made tougher immigration controls a condition of its support for the minority government’s economic policies.