The Netherlands

Fireworks further out of favour, more people back local bans

Fireworks are further out of favour in the Netherlands, with 57% now backing bans at a town or city level, according to research by I&O for local government magazine Binnenlands…

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Migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 changes flag from Dutch to German

The rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, which has been detained by Italian authorities on multiple occasions, said that it would no longer be registered in the Netherlands and would instead fly…

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Photo story: Flights from Eindhoven airport suspended

A view of a plane shrouded in fog sitting on the tarmac at the airport in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 05 December 2019. Air traffic from Eindhoven Airport has stopped due…

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Dutch police arrest suspect in The Hague stabbing

Dutch police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man Saturday on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that was crowded with Black Friday shoppers. The man, whose…

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Rotterdam 2020 design celebrates 65 years of Eurovision Song Contest

The design, which forms the visual basis for the 3 shows and the event, symbolizes the celebration of the 65 years of Eurovision Song Contest and the 41 countries that…

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Dutch anti-terrorism unit foils terrorist attack in the Netherlands

Two men will appear in court on Thursday charged with preparing a terrorist attack, the public prosecution department has confirmed. One man aged 20 was arrested at his home in…

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Traffic jams cost Dutch industry €1.4bn

Traffic jams cost Dutch industry a record €1.4bn last year, according to research by Panteia on behalf of the transport sector lobby TLN. The 2018 total is up 5.6% on…

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Dutch authorities find 25 migrants in refrigerated container on UK-bound ferry

Authorities in the Netherlands discovered 25 migrants hidden inside a truck aboard a cargo ferry en route to Britain shortly after it left the country on Tuesday. The Britannia Seaways ferry quickly turned…

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Dutch luxury department store Bijenkorf cancels Christmas lights show to cut costs

The Bijenkorf luxury department store group has sacked several dozen members of staff and scrapped the annual Christmas light show in Amsterdam to cut costs, Dutch media is reporting. The…

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Netherlands cuts speed limit to curb emissions

The Dutch government will reduce its national speed limit as part of a package of controversial measures to cut emissions that have sparked mass protests from the country’s farmers. Mark…

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Photo Story: A museum with a difference opens in Amsterdam

Photos taken prior to the opening of the Youseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The pop-up museum challenges visitors to think critically about themselves. Photos: EPA-EFE/KOEN VAN WEEL Click on…

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Dutch are the most proficient English speakers in the world

The Dutch are the most proficient English speakers in the world, a global study of English skills has found. Swedish education company used an online language proficiency test to rank…

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Photo Story: First F-35 lands at Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands

The first F-35, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, lands at Leeuwarden Air Base in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands on Thursday 31 October 2019. The Dutch Defence Ministry ordered some…

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‘Open Up’ is Rotterdam’s Eurovision Song Contest slogan

‘Open Up’ is the slogan organisers have come up with for next year’s Eurovision song contest in Rotterdam. The festival, which comprises three live shows and the contest itself, will…

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Photo Story: Dutch zoo gears up for Halloween

A meerkat already celebrates Halloween in Amersfoort Zoo in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. The animals received carved pumpkins to play with or to eat. Photo: EPA-EFE/ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN

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Dutch health minister calls for international strategy to combat dementia

The Dutch health minister has called for a global strategy to deal with dementia at a meeting of world experts in Japan. Hugo De Jonge likened the growth in this…

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The Hague readies for Dutch farmers protest

The Dutch national defence helps the municipality of The Hague with the closure of roads, as one of the measures ahead of a farmers' protest in The Hague, the Netherlands.…

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Family found living in cellar in the Netherlands for years

A drone photo of the farm, where a man and six children had been living in the cellar, In Ruinerwold, The Netherlands. The family lived in the cellar for years…

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Listeria scare in the Netherlands

Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo is recalling 135 different types of pre-packed cold meat ranging from salami to ham because of a listeria scare. Listeria may have been found in one…

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Dutch bank ABN Amro subject to money laundering investigation

Dutch bank ABN Amro has been placed under investigation by Dutch prosecutors relating over suspected money laundering, it said today. Prosecutors said they believe that ABN Amro reported suspicious transactions…

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U.S., Allies, Remember Operation Market Garden

Paratroopers jump out of an original C-47 Dakota during the commemoration of Operation Market Garden 75 years ago, in Groesbeek, the Netherlands, 18 September 2019. They jumped down over Groesbeek,…

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KLM to cut one daily flight from Brussels to Amsterdam

The Dutch airline, KLM, will cancel one of its daily flights between Brussels and Amsterdam Schiphol in March 2020, the company announced. Instead of the flight, passengers will be encouraged…

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Photo Story: The restoration of the Dutch Royal Golden Coach

Parts of the Dutch Royal Golden Coach are maintained at the Royal Stables in The Hague, the Netherlands. Works are progressing so the coach will be completely restored, which is…

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Commonwealth war cemetery in Netherlands daubed with graffiti and swastikas

Dutch police are investigating the act of vandalism in which unknown attackers daubed the war memorial graves, walls and the chapel with graffiti at the British and Commonwealth WWII war…

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Dutch drinking water supply at risk

According to media reports in the Netherlands, research by the Dutch KWR Institute for the drinking water sector in the Netherlands, shows that the quality of our sources for drinking…

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Schiphol hit by delays and cancellations due to KLM ground crews strike

More than 40 flights were delayed, and a dozen cancelled at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Wednesday, as KLM ground crews went on strike. A spokesman for KLM, a subsidiary of…

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Haarlem in the Netherlands to tackle over-tourism

Haarlem is taking action to stop the city becoming a victim of its own success as a tourist destination, by focusing on ‘quality visitors’ and making sure the wishes of…

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Marijuana legalisation has not removed crime: Dutch police lecturer

Canada’s decision to legalise cannabis has not resulted in removing organised crime from the chain, a Dutch police academic warned Police Academy lecturer Pieter Tops, who visited Canada as part…

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Gas is on its way out in Dutch kitchens

Dutch research by environmental lobby group Natuur en Milieu announced that the use of gas is on its way out in Dutch kitchens. Last year, gas hobs accounted for just…

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Nearly 10,000 sign up for Dutch Brexit beach party

Nearly 10,000 people have said so far they will be going to a Brexit beach party at the Dutch seaside resort of Wijk aan Zee on October 31 to wave…

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Scheveningen, the Netherlands

An image taken with a drone shows beach umbrellas and deck chairs as beachgoers enjoy the hot weather in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEM VAN DER WAL

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Gambling site Bwin fined €350,000 by Dutch regulators

The Dutch gambling authority Ksa imposed a fine of 350 thousand euros on the company behind gambling site Bwin.com, because the site offered gambling services and sports betting to Dutch…

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Photo Story: New home for Konik horses

One of the first 50 konik horses are transported from the nature reserve of Oostvaardersplassen in Lelystad, the Netherlands to a nature reserve in Belarus,. A total of 150 konik…

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Photo Story: The Road Cycling European Championships

The Dutch rider Yara Kastelijn in action during the women's time trial under 23 at the European Cycling Championships in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, on the 08 August 2019. Ellen van…

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Photo Story: Facial coverings banned in the Netherlands

A niqab veiled woman pulls her shopping bag along a street in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Facial coverings will be banned in the Netherlands, from public transport, schools, hospitals and government buildings…

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Photo Story: Traditional Skutsjesilen competition on the lakes of Friesland

An aerial view of vessels participating in the traditional Skutsjesilen competition on a lake in Earnewald, Friesland, The Netherlands. For two weeks, 14 traditional Frisian flat-bottomed boats compete against each…

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Thousands still stuck at Schiphol airport as problems persist into Thursday

Thousands of passengers were left with few options at Schiphol Airport as hundreds of inbound and outbound flights were cancelled or faced hours-long delays. "The situation is not expected to…

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Dutch Supreme Court rules Netherlands partially responsible for Srebrenica deaths

The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Netherlands is partially responsible for the July 1995 deaths of 300 Muslims in Srebrenica. Relatives of the victims first sued the…

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Dutch Justice Minister wants to reduce open air festivals to curb drug use

Dutch Justice Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus has said that the government needs to ‘think critically’ about whether the Netherlands should continue to hold 1100 festivals a year, in order to…

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Rotterdam favourite to stage next year’s Eurovision

Five Dutch cities have applied to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands following Duncan Laurence’s victory with Arcade in May. The cities are Rotterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht, Arnhem…

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Photo Story: The Restoration of the Night Watch

Restorers working on a restoration of the Night Watch behind a glass wall in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 08 July 2019. Rembrandt van Rijn's world-famous masterpiece…

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The Netherlands mulling making it a crime to rescue migrants at sea

Government Coalition party the VVD has proposed to make it a crime to rescue migrants from drowning at sea, despite international treaties making it an obligation. The plan has a…

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Plans to overhaul Amsterdam’s red-light district

Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s new mayor, announced plans to overhaul the city’s red-light district in a bid to protect sex workers. In what would be the most radical revamp of…

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Amsterdam having second thoughts about various festivals in the city

Amsterdam city council is taking a critical look at the effect of festivals on the city and plans to set up a special commission to vet which events can…

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U.S. wants the Netherlands to supply ground support in Syria

The Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported that the United States asked the Netherlands to supply ground military resources as part of a new mission to Syria. The newspaper quoted the…

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Arrests in the UK and Netherlands in €24 million cryptocurrency theft

The UK’s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU) in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested…

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One in five churches in the Netherlands are no longer used for religious purposes

One in five churches in the Netherlands are no longer used as a place of worship and most have been turned into homes or cultural centres, according to research…

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The Netherlands opens investigation into three euthanasia cases

Three euthanasia cases involving women with psychiatric conditions and dementia are under investigation in the Netherlands. Dutch prosecutors confirmed that the deaths, in 2017 and 2018, were being investigated for…

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Over 100 firms the Netherlands line up to offer online gambling

A total 125 companies have informed the Dutch gambling regulator they are interested in a licence to offer online gambling once it becomes legal in 2021. The companies are both…

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UPDATED : Four charged with murder over downing of MH 17

Investigators probing the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine in which 298 people died in 2014 are to charge four persons with murder. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation…

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“New developments” in MH17 investigation

There are "new developments" in the investigation into the downing of flight MH17, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said on Friday in an email sent to the relatives of…

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First woman to receive the highest rank in the Dutch Navy

Captain Jeanette Morang today will be promoted to Commodore. Morang is the first woman to receive the highest rank in the Dutch Navy. The Dutch Armed Forces and the Dutch…

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15% of Dutch children don’t play outside

Research by the Dutch campaign group Jantje Beton showed that in the Netherlands around 15% of children never play outside. In 50% of cases the reason given for children…

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Captain of Budapest fatal ship crash was also involved in Dutch boat crash

The captain of a cruise ship, identifies only as a 64-year-old Ukrainian national named as Yuriy C, who was involved in a fatal crash in Budapest last week was…

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Severe storms continue to pummel the Netherlands and Belgium

The Netherlands suffered a second night of severe storms that brought down trees and disrupted traffic as strong winds and heavy rain battered most of the country. The KNMI weather…

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Vatican mourns Dutch teenager’s ‘euthanasia’ death

The Vatican on Wednesday mourned the death of Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old girl from the Netherlands who reportedly ended her life via legal euthanasia on Sunday - although it was…

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Amsterdam gives preference to young over profit in housing allocation

Amsterdam council has published new rules for allocating housing in the city. Rules which include a quota for bed and breakfasts and giving priority for social housing to youngsters, nurses…

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