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The new right-wing government of the Netherlands is to halt support payments to rejected asylum-seekers from the beginning of next year, Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber announced on Wednesday. “From January 1, 2025, payments for board and lodging for people who should long have left the country will be halted,” she posted on X. Faber, who supports the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV) of firebrand leader Geert Wilders, said she had consulted with the five major cities in which emergency accommodation is offered in accordance with the so-called “bed-bath-bread regulation…

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