Netherlands: Dutch to ditch burqa ban

Netherlands: Dutch to ditch burqa ban


Via RNW:
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�s fallen, she "wouldn�t shed a tear" if parliament were to scrap the controversial Freedom Party-sponsored bill. "Now that the cabinet�s fallen, there�s no longer any payoff," she told national daily de Volkskrant on Wednesday.
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