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The government of the Netherlands has outlined its legislative programme, with a plan to reduce the number of asylum seekers as quickly and as much as possible at its core. In a speech in The Hague, Dutch King Willem-Alexander presented the plans of the new right-wing government to the members of both chambers of parliament on Tuesday. He told legislators that the government believed asylum policy should become “stricter, faster and more meager.” The four-party coalition, which for the first time includes the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) of populist firebrand Geert Wilders, had already an…