The Hague – News Team Ep.86

Irina Galushko is in the Netherlands, where she investigates a story related to the financial and social crisis in the EU. Visiting The Hague and Amsterdam, she tries to judge the mood concerning migration and multiculturalism. In the capital, she meets an anti-immigration politician, who is eager to share his tough stance on the issue.  She also talks to a local blogger who invites her for a stroll in a well-known Muslim quarter dubbed the “Sharia triangle”, situated as it is between three mosques.

 

Meanwhile, Paula Slier goes to an Iraqi refugee camp that has been set up to help those fleeing ISIS militants. In the UNICEF-run tent city in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, she speaks to victims of the terrorist group who barely got away with their lives after their families were killed. These are the people who are likely to become migrants seeking shelter in Europe. 

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