Category: Netherland
A12 protests continue, 6,500 climate activists arr...
Hundreds of climate activists blocked the A12 highway into The Hague for the 16th time on Sunday but were cleared...
Reports of sexual harassment at universities doubl...
The number of reports of sexual harassment at Dutch universities has doubled in four years, according to researchers for radio...
Summer sunshine returns for a few late September d...
The Netherlands is due for a short spell of warm, sunny late summer weather from Sunday onwards, with temperatures reaching...
Arriva appeals to competition authority for more N...
Transport company Arriva is appealing to the Dutch competition authority ACM in its quest to be allowed to take over...
Ready for rising seas? The Netherlands is home to ...
The Netherlands is home to a pair of massive representations of Noah’s Ark, which could be useful given 25% of...
The budget: what you need to know about the impact...
The autumn budget, aiming to boost “equality of opportunity” and create a secure future for the most vulnerable in Dutch society,....
Will the Netherlands be rudderless without Rutte?
The Dutch are gearing up for the polls in November. Our regular columnist Molly Quell wonders how much of a...
Bank tax plans hit Dutch financials, ING down 6.3%
Financial shares took a big hit in Amsterdam on Friday following parliament’s vote in favour of an extra tax on...
Electronics chain BCC goes bust but relaunch not r...
Electronic goods chain BCC has been declared bankrupt due to the rising cost of staff, energy and rent. The chain’s...
Pollution from Tata Steel is a real risk to health...
There is a direct link between emissions from the Tata Steel plant in IJmuiden and the health of people who...
Pensioners have most contact with their neighbours
Some 80% of the Dutch have contact with other family members at least once a week and there is no...
Podcast: Le Petit Prinsjesdag Edition
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International Criminal Court still reeling after c...
The International Criminal Court, the world’s war crimes tribunal, was hit by a cyber attack earlier this week and is...
Addictive online platforms like “one-armed bandits...
A Dutch MEP wants the EU to take on Big Tech and force it to implement measures to make their...
More young refugees arrive in Ter Apel, housing cr...
The number of young asylum seekers without parents at the Ter Apel registration centre in Groningen topped 350 earlier this...
MPs add €4 billion to the budget, back higher tax,...
New measures backed by MPs in two days of debate on the caretaker government’s spending plans have added almost €4...
Dutch house prices rise slightly for third month i...
House prices in the Netherlands rose marginally again in August and are now just 4.8% down on a year ago,...
Ajax draw in Europa League, AZ give away win in Bo...
Ajax could manage no more than a home draw against Olympique Marseille in their first Europa League clash on Thursday...
MPs call for cheaper petrol, no public transport f...
MPs from across the political spectrum are calling on the caretaker government to make changes to its 2024 spending plans...
Over half of Syrians are in work but social isolat...
Over half of Syrians who came to the Netherlands between 2014 and 2016 are in paid employment but a lack...
Amsterdam cracks down on house swaps for the holid...
Amsterdammers who want to swap homes with another family for the holidays via websites such as HomeExchange will have to...
Amsterdam housing programme crumbles, just 4,500 t...
The number of new homes built in Amsterdam this year is likely to be no more than 4,500, well short...
Omtzigt hints at 50,000 ceiling on total immigrati...
Independent MP Pieter Omtzigt, whose fledgling political party Nieuwe Sociaal Contract is leading the opinion polls ahead of the N...
Dutch jihadis held in Kurdish jail want to come ho...
At least two Dutchmen who travelled to Syria to fight for Islamic State are hoping to return to the Netherlands,...
Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf dies at 64
Tributes have been pouring in for internationally acclaimed Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf whose death at 64 was announced on Wedne...
American teacher sacked over Anne Frank’s diary as...
A teacher in the US has been fired for assigning her class to read a graphic novel adaptation of Anne...
40% fewer mortgages signed in 2023 H1 as interest ...
Rising interest rates led to a 40% drop in the number of mortgages finalised in the first six months of...
“Home is also where you find the space to be who y...
Christina Triantafyllidi was born in Armenia and came to the Netherlands eight years ago to study, then stayed to work...
Researchers put chimps on the couch to gauge their...
Researchers from Leiden University are putting the chimpanzees at Amersfoort zoo under psychological scrutiny as part of a large-s...
Arsenal 4-0 PSV Eindhoven: Bosz’s side outclassed ...
PSV Eindhoven were dealt a harsh lesson in finishing on their return to Champions League football as they slumped to...
