Terneuzen council narrowly approves asylum seeker center
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A debate in Terneuzen ended with the council granting a permit to house asylum seekers in a former office block. The vote was close and the local opposition vocal, following a discussion on whether the site was appropriate for the arrivals.
The House of Representatives has raised the rainbow flag for the first time, a gesture of support for LGBTQ+ rights that required a late-night vote to finalize. It is a moment of symbolic unity for a parliament that had expressed initial uncertainty about whether the flag belonged on the building at all.
The government continues to demand a smaller EU budget even as neighbors call for more spending, a familiar friction point for the state. Meanwhile, calls are growing for a formal apology over the Q-fever epidemic that hit the Brabant countryside twenty years ago; for the victims, the state's inaction is not yet a matter of history.