Amsterdam city council is to improve its registration of immigrants, take further steps to tackle sub-letting and other illegal housing practices and get tougher on crime, in an effort to remove problems associated particularly with immigration from central and eastern Europe.

Although The Hague and Rotterdam have had a special focus on eastern and central European immigrants for some time, Amsterdam has lagged behind, partly because fewer people have moved to the city, local newspaper Het Parool says.
According to official registers, 12,000 people from central and eastern Europe live in Amsterdam, the paper says.

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Things are going well with most EU immigrants,’ the city council says in a statement. ‘However, there is an increasing group of often unregistered people who either have problems or are causing them,’ the council says. These include people with psychological or addiction-related problems.
The council also plans to ‘support’ people who voluntarily want to return to their country of origin.
The full city council will debate the plans on Wednesday.