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The Netherlands has applied to the European Commission to opt out of the European Union asylum rules, according to Dutch far-right Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber. “We need to regain control of our own asylum policy!” she wrote in a post on X on Wednesday. The likelihood of the Netherlands succeeding is low. Such an exemption, the so-called opt-out, usually requires the consensus of all 27 EU states. Moreover, EU members have already agreed on an asylum reform and now need to implement it. According to Faber, the Dutch government aims to reduce the entry of asylum seekers and irregular migrant…