[Previous entry: "Security guards are $200 million racist"] [Next entry: "Antibiotics saturating soil"]

07/11/2007: "As immigrants come, Dutch leave"

According to the latest figures by Statistics Netherlands, over 22 thousand immigrants took up residence in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2006. This is almost 2 thousand more than in the same period of 2005. For the time being, this ended the downward immigration rate that started in 2001. The increase consists mainly of returning Dutch people and immigrants from Poland. Emigration rose fast in the first quarter. That is mainly why the number of inhabitants of the Netherlands rose by only 2 thousand, the lowest figure on record.

[ If we can't be Dutch, honey, let's go anywhere that offers us the best residuals. ]

http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/dossiers/allochtonen/publicaties/persberichten/2006-053-pb.htm