02 May 2012

Dutch to ditch burqa ban

Interior Minister Liesbeth Spies says the burqa ban she helped prepare can be scrapped along with a proposed ban on holding dual citizenship.

Now that the cabinet has fallen, she "wouldn’t shed a tear" if parliament were to scrap the controversial Freedom Party-sponsored bill. "Now the cabinet has fallen, there’s no longer any payoff," she told national daily de Volkskrant on Wednesday. [Radio Netherlands Worldwide] Read more