THE HAGUE — Enforcement of the social compulsory training on Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba is against the European legislation. The Dutch Minister of Education, Marja van Bijsterveld-Vliegenthart therefore advises the Lower Chamber not to approve an extension of the social compulsory training this Wednesday.
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During a preparatory meeting of the committee Kingdom Relation today, it appeared that a majority of the Lower Chamber wants to enforce the social compulsory training on the three islands and not replace it with a voluntary probability course. Jeroen Recourt from the PvdA and Ineke van Gent from GroenLinks in particular support this. "The compulsory training appears to be successful even though it is not always enforced. Why does the government prefer a different project?" Recourt wonders.
Minister van Bijsterveldt answered that also the new probability course must prosper. "But not with the current obligation. The new plan fits better within the Dutch view, by which he/she only receives an allowance if he/she works or studies. Moreover, an obligation is supposedly against EU-legislation by which he/she is actually free once he/she becomes eighteen," said the Minister. After all, the social compulsory training compels youngsters from 16 up to and including 24 years of age to study or to work. For that matter, the compulsory education up to eighteen years of age is maintained on the islands and the Minister was not opposed to extra control at the airports in order to prevent school age youngsters from traveling abroad.
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