Dutch tech companies voice concern at plans for tougher stance on immigration • FRANCE 24 English 

The dutch are against the unskilled migration from Africa and other third world countries not against skilled workers

Anti Islam is not Anti immigration

As an immigrant myself in Europe I can understand the concerns of Europeans. Far right is more bothered about the illegals who entered Netherlands or the ones e who arrive here with extreme religious ideologies or who commit crime or the ones who don’t work but contribute baby booming and lives of social benefits. The immigrants also need to make some effort to integrate and contribute to the country

The Netherlands should seriously start solving their housing problem before importing more people to pay horrendous rents to investors

I don't think the anti immigrant sentiment is against these highly skilled workers or students coming from abroad shown in this video.

25% of the knowledge migrants to The Netherlands came from India just last year. No expats, no tech in Europe

Controlled imigration with people coming from countries that aren't Muslim can be solution.

Just hire from existing pools. There are literally million graduating each year from European trade schools, including foreign origin students. But not, in the name of "skill shortage", they want wage dumping by keeping the door open for non-EU workers working for peanuts and accept abuse out of desperation to get their papers sorted.

The key is "highly-skilled". The problem with immigration is not the highly-skilled, who always get accepted. It's the rest.

Im from South Eastern Europe, and was more welcomed in North America & Asia than other western European places. Skilled or not doesn't matter, they all feel entitled and believe they are the center of the world (when you have single companies like Microsoft worth more than ALL European companies combined). Its a shame, but also sure that they can never catch up with east asia or north america.

Low birth rate, high immigration

Sure .... we are expecting a lot of high quality Islamist Engineers

Companies dont care about people or culture.... only profits. Be wary. The fact they "have concerns" almost inicates its in the peoples best interest to make it stricter.

It’s simple, the country needs to promote couples to have children.

All advanced engineering and technology courses in universities in the Netherlands should only be taught in English.

As once a high skilled migrant, I myself was also quite frustrated with the migration procedures in Europe. They don’t separate migrants there not to make any racism but not separating migrant groups actually creates a worse process for educated migrants that Europe needs. Let me explain; With my wife, we had to go through piles of paperwork, waiting times and stress only to see refugees having the express pass. Which felt unfair. I was making top 1% salary with a brutto 120k, my wife made 90k (100 with bonuses). We had been paying obscenely high taxes from the day we set foot there and couldn’t even get a quick doctor appointment as system was full for over a year. At some point I took my wife to my own country to pay for a private hospital for the long awaited check up… Refugees, which as far as I understood the far right likes to talk a lot about, were not all behaving. Hate what I have to say all you want but whenever someone was having a fight or bothering a lady, or being loud and aggressive, my experience was that it was a refugee. What I didn’t understand is I have to wait months to get a meeting at the foreigners office for visa renewal, only to be treated like a refugee myself by a visibly frustrated visa officer, Because I understand refugees aren’t all cooperative and often lie in their documents which is hard for public workers. Is it so hard to open a high skilled working migrant office separately Europe? I mean you need this, population pyramid says many countries social security systems will collapse or taxes for workers have to go up to an unsustainable point where even the most loyal socialist is gonna wanna migrate to US… At some point I couldn’t take it more and migrated to US myself with H1B visa. I look back and say what a shot show it was. I make much more money and my health insurance is pretty much the same price I was paying in taxes, only a 5 star red carpet experience for all the family.

A global workforce is important and a strict immigration policy is necessary. Left wing media wants to make it sound like these two things cant exist at the same time. If you have a contract you have a visa if you don't you need to find someone who wants to hire you before entering the country.

In Berlim there are more then 45000 Computer Engineers waiting for a chance to get a Job. Why not call them!?

I am an immigrant , but why this left eco system destroyed the family culture in west...there should be good parenthood. They can encourage their child for working hard , creative (which is done by asian parent)

Why do Tech Sectors have a tendency to create problems which does not exist ?

High reliance on imported labor only slows down advances in automation and AI.

Maji has a responsibility to return to Indonesia to build up his country. Indonesia needs his talent far more than the Netherlands does…..

Why this Europe-wide dependence on foreign workers? If European governments spent more on educating their own young instead of opting for the cheapo way of importing brains from abroad this dependence would diminish if not disappear over time.

You could barely even clarify exactly what the anti-immigration measures in question are. Smh

Knowing this absolute nonsense from Geert, he will steer this extremist stance back and re-evaluatie what can be done better instead of being extreme about it.. People say that migration is bad, but migration is absolutely essential for the economy and population growth. And if people still do not believe it, then wait another 10 years how your population will last without immigration.

They came to understand but those who were there before have seniority or is time and knowing the ideas are not an issue. Such as they can go back and apply what they learned in where they are from. That is an international student. asylum seekers are not international students, they are worried about their country and will go back, unless they are worried about nothing so either way they are going back.

Catrastophic for the economy

This should be considered globally housing many people with no available infrastructure is a disaster.

If companies have short-term gaps then this is best handled through work permits for specialised resources - not immigration or illegal migration.

easy fix, prohibit the wooden shoes!

Dutch only don't like muslims. But thry can't point out specific to them. So they are generalizing statements on immigration

Why not outsource the work

1:15 That company should be closed & dutch should be loyal to other dutch. Immigration is a big problem and it needs to be addressed asap. 4:20 Nothing is awful, your company would be awful.

Only way for Europe is to segregate visas based on the nationality and also that they should start reject taking unskilled migrants or refugees in, that’s the only way to solve this problem

Civilized Europens sounds naciii😂😂western people

No matter where, tougher immigration does not have to mean "less immigration", but it does have to mean "better immigrants". Do it right and it should be very good for tech companies, not bad.

Just take the skilled educated migrants

Go luxum

Will Netherlands fly me at age 59 to the Netherlands and give me a funded credit card and free hotel and free housing , food and huge weekly allowance like NY does for these people Joe flys in from their countries? Will any other country fly us there to escape the Politcal tyrany of the Us? Then do as much to resettle us while their own citizens sit needing help and I get pushed to VIP status on their dime? Any offers on the table from other countries to save Americans from the pleight of the USA economy and crazy bs here?

These companies can move to countries with the skills they need. Why employee expensive European workers?

The problem with EU is that if countries (voters) have right wing mindset then they would support exiting EU too. So EU has to be left wing. For EU to sustain, it needs to have a common link language when it comes to administration, Higher education, Judiciary, Jobs, etc. For example in India, the local courts use English and might also be using local language(s), but at national level English is the highest status language be it in Central government, Judiciary, Higher education, Jobs, Banking services, etc. If EU wants to stay relevant then it needs to probably make English as the link language in all member countries and be able to compete with USA (English), China (Standard Mandarin), India (English), etc.

Netherlands is expensive and not that developed compared to germany add to that the far right government and it will become the second UK(Brexit) over the time

Cool story, now show the thousands of ghettos.

One EU country must be open to have 0 racism policy...so that highly educated individuals move their companies and capital..... Luxemburg cannot hold entire capital of the world.... Most EU countries have gone to route of populism....France can offer safety to legal EU citizens and grow

Look to India do a proper research on the culture and call in good smart people.

Sounds unfounded.

Holland will import cheaper workers no matter for lower or high tech jobs