Amsterdam mayor wants to drop Moroccan name list in Dutch-Moroccan official registration
Radio Netherlands - April 9, 2009
Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen plans to petition city hall stop using a list of first names approved by the government of Morocco.
Although city hall recognizes dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, the government in Rabat insists that people with a Moroccan parent are its nationals, and suggest using approved names to prevent future travel and inheritance problems by having a foreign name on their official documents.
Presently, persons of the local Dutch-Moroccan community have been given the list of approved names when officially registering their children. MPs from two senior members of the Christian Democrats and Labour have also called for Dutch-Moroccans to be able to choose whatever names they place on their registration documents.