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Dutch roundabouts are considered among the pinnacles of roadway design both in the Netherlands and abroad. So what makes them...

PSV Eindhoven have been drawn against English Premier League side Arsenal in the last 16 of the Champions League, while...

A medical student who killed two of his next-door neighbours and a lecturer who was teaching a class at Rotterdam’s...

Defence minister Ruben Brekelmans has criticised US president Donald Trump for calling his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator as...

Scientists have called into question agriculture minister Femke Wiersma’s plans to break the deadlock over nitrogen compound emissions by raising...

NSC has backtracked on its plans to hold VAT at 21% after joint party leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven told parliament...

The cabinet has revived its plan sending failed asylum seekers to Uganda despite European rules, the foreign affairs and asylum...

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A request by ailing Dutch privatised postal service PostNL for a €68 million government handout has been rejected by the...

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Sources place Johannes Leijdekkers in west African country since at least December 2022One of Europe’s most-wanted drug lords has been living in Sierra Leone for at least two years, spending time at nightclubs and house parties, sources have told the Guardian.Johannes Leijdekkers, a Dutch national, has been sentenced in absentia to decades in prison for […]

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Encouraging kids to play with fire? Hear us out, says party worried by the Netherlands’ increasingly sedentary waysTen-year-old Jackie stood with a small pan in the flames of an open fire, chatting merrily, when her popcorn caught alight.With no sign of panic, her mother put out the flames in a nearby ditch. Then Jackie and her eight-year-old brother, […]

Hardline agendas, especially on immigration, are copied by mainstream conservatives in vain effort to win back votes - but it’s not workingFar-right parties could become the largest force on the right in Europe within a decade, experts have said, as mainstream conservative parties look to copy their hardline agendas, especially on immigration, in a vain […]

Revered Helmet of Coțofenești among items from ancient Dacian civilisation stolen while on loan at Drents MuseumHours before the sun rose over the Netherlands, the group crowded around the large external door, appearing to pry it open. Seconds later, the grainy security video appeared to show a powerful explosion, sending plumes of smoke and sparks into […]

2,500-year-old Helmet of Cotofenesti among objects taken after thieves used explosives to enter buildingDutch police have arrested three men in connection with the robbery of ancient Romanian artefacts from a museum in the north-east of the Netherlands, after an intensive four-day hunt.The break-in on Saturday, during which the men used explosives to get […]

Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African country’s president, was sentenced to 24 years in prisonOne of Europe’s most wanted men, the Dutch crime boss Jos Leijdekkers, is hiding out in Sierra Leone, Dutch prosecutors have said.The statement came after Dutch media published footage that appeared to show the violent drug trafficker at a New […]

Archaeologists hail discovery of very rare hoard featuring 44 gold coins bearing name of Celtic king CunobelinusA hoard of British coins bearing the inscription of King Cunobelin and found in a Dutch field have been identified as very likely to be the spoils of war of a Roman soldier from the conquest of Britain.The 44 gold coins, known as staters, were […]

‘Baseline’ contamination study to inform Netherlands trial in which shops will sell drug produced by licensed growersLead, pesticides and potentially harmful bacteria were among the contaminants found during an investigation into cannabis sold in semi-legal “coffee shops” in the Netherlands.The research, which aimed to establish a “baseline” […]

From Trump’s Project 2025 to a huge funding cut by the Dutch, donors are turning their backs on aidForeign aid spending reached a record high of $223bn (£180bn) in 2023, new figures released this week from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) confirmed.Yet, in 2024, eight wealthy countries announced $17.2bn in cuts to […]

Leadership at international criminal court fears new US administration will move quickly to shut it downThe international criminal court is bracing itself for Donald Trump to launch aggressive economic sanctions against it this week, amid fears such a move could paralyse its work and pose an existential threat.ICC officials are preparing for Trump’s new […]

Taskforce to act as ‘security camera of the Baltic’ after string of suspected sabotage incidents on critical infrastructureA Nato flotilla likened to “the security camera of the Baltic” has assembled off the coast of Estonia as the military alliance seeks to protect European undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage.In a move that ratchets up a […]

Authorities are reluctant to curb excesses of a new year’s tradition that is causing life-changing injuriesSeven-year-old Necati Karki had gathered with his family as part of a crowd in their neighbourhood in northern Berlin when a treacherous new addition to the New Year’s Eve festivities went off: a “firework bomb”.Fired out of a pipe by unknown […]

Explosives brought in from Poland and the Czech Republic are combined with household items for a bigger bangGerman officials have called for a clampdown on illegally imported and homemade “firework bombs” after pyrotechnics for personal use killed at least five people across the country on New Year’s Eve.The use of personal firecrackers is widespread […]

The new allegation in Islamophobic discourse is that even Muslims who appear ‘well-integrated’ hate the westReporting on the rise of anti-Muslim hostility across Europe means repeatedly hearing generalisations about Europe’s 25 million Muslims. We are – all of us – too religious, easily drawn to extremism and terrorism, we live in parallel […]

Some descendants are apprehensive but a historian says making 30m pages of records public is ‘important step’For 80 years, details of their ancestors’ collaboration with the Nazis have been buried in spotless rows of filing cabinets in The Hague. But thousands of Dutch families face having their relatives’ history laid bare later this week when an […]

Dutch prosecutor hands out jail sentences of up to six months, saying fighting between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ‘had little to do’ with sportA Dutch court has handed down sentences of up to six months in prison to the first men to be tried over the unrest that erupted in Amsterdam as local football team Ajax took on Israel’s Maccabi Tel […]

Film-maker Guido Hendrikx goes house-to-house in a Dutch suburb, ringing doorbells and then mutely filming – we see what people will say and do to fill the silenceDutch film-maker Guido Hendrikx has given us a funny but also somewhat slippery and disingenuous bit of pass-agg provocation, somewhere between documentary cinema and conceptual art. For just […]

Women are challenging the law that prevents them giving their kids both family names without father’s consentWhen 43-year-old Rebecca Lee took her birth mother’s Korean surname, it was a revelation. “I was adopted and got a Dutch name but I never felt completely Dutch,” she says. “When, a few years ago, I first went to Korea, things fell into […]

Dutch court found Daniel Castledine’s attacker, a Belgian male, guilty of manslaughter in January A British student was stabbed to death in Amsterdam, dragged and left at the bottom of steps belonging to a basement apartment, an inquest has heard.Danny Castledine, 22, was attacked in the early hours of 1 June 2022, during a visit to the Dutch capital […]