ABSTRACT
How do the Dutch centre-right parties, the Christen Democratisch Appel (Christian Democratic Appeal, CDA, Christian democrats) and the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, VVD, conservative liberals), cope with the issues of migration, asylum-seekers, integration, multiculturalism and European integration? The centre-right parties in the Netherlands have come under pressure with regard to their stance on these issues. Centre-right pro-Europeanism and pro-multiculturalism have been abandoned for more typically right-wing and hard-line positions on these issues. The parties now favour more restrictive laws on immigration and asylum-seekers that seem more consonant with their ideological position. Moreover, after the referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty both the CDA and the VVD adopted less Euro-enthusiastic stances.
