The test about Dutch society which most non-EU residents need to take in the Netherlands should be overhauled because it is old-fashioned and patronising, according MPs from two of the coalition parties.
VVD MP Bente Becker and D66‘s Jan Paternotte want social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees to modernise the test and to make sure the questions it asks are useful.
“Questions such as “what should you do if the television is on while you are vacuuming” are absurd and contribute nothing to integration,’ Paternotte is quoted as saying by news agency ANP.
Read more at DutchNews.nl: MPs call for ‘patronising and old-fashioned’ integration test overhaul