Hoofdlijnenakkoord — coalition commits to "strictest asylum policy ever"

The four-party coalition of PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB published its Hoofdlijnenakkoord ("outline agreement") in May 2024, taking office 2 July 2024. The agreement commits to a tightening of asylum and migration policy including: the scrapping of the Asylum Distribution Act (Spreidingswet), reduction of temporary asylum residence permits from five to three years, and severe tightening of family reunification rules for recognised refugees. Many individual measures have faced legal and parliamentary contestation through 2025.