The Netherlands

Feyenoord fans have been banned from travelling to Lille for the club’s final Champions League group match on January 29....

MPs have backed a motion calling on the Dutch government to stop using private companies to run emergency accommodation for...

A statue by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini given on permanent loan by a private owner has been put on...

Judges have ordered the Dutch state to take action to reduce nitrogen-based pollution in the country’s most vulnerable habitats or...

Thousands of shoplifters are escaping punishment because police are not passing on offenders’ names and address to the private companies...

House prices fell slightly between November and December last year, bringing the total increase for 2024 to 8.7%, according to...

Seven in ten daycare centres for pre-school children currently have waiting lists, and the sector is facing a serious staff...

Plane ticket prices have soared since 2019, RTL reported on Wednesday, citing figures from the national statistics agency CBS. At...

While there are signs that house price increases may be slowing down and more supply is entering the market, there...

PSV took a giant step towards the knock-out stages of the Champions League after hanging on for the points in...

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 […]

At the last minute, Zoë decided to call off her euthanasia. But how do you start over after you’ve said all of your goodbyes?It was a sunny summer morning when Zoë opened the countdown calendar on her phone. There it was: zero days, seven hours.Another seven hours. That’s the downside of desperately wanting something: the wait seems to take for ever. […]

Sefa O one of seven men charged with public violence in chaos that followed Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv matchProsecutors have called for a man suspected of punching and kicking Israeli football fans in Amsterdam during a night of violence to serve two years in jail.The 22-year-old, identified as Sefa O, was one of five suspects to appear before an Amsterdam […]

Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to DamascusWhen he spoke to lawmakers and in lecture theatres around the world, Mazen al-Hamada’s face told the story of brutal torture by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The discovery of the Syrian activist’s body inside the notorious Sednaya prison on the outskirts of […]

Emergency crews dig through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building after an early morning blast in the Mariahoeve neighbourhood of The Hague left at least three people dead. The city's mayor said recovery operations would take a long time and that there was little chance of finding survivors. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the blast […]

Fears of higher death toll as mayor of Dutch city says chances of finding people alive under rubble are slimAt least four people have died after an explosion and fire caused a building to collapse in The Hague with little chance of finding more survivors, the city’s mayor has said.The cause of the explosion in the Mariahoeve neighbourhood of the Dutch […]

Public petition calls for motion by VVD party in ruling rightwing coalition to be withdrawnProtests are planned in the Netherlands in response to a motion accepted by the Dutch parliament to “keep details of cultural and religious norms and values of Dutch people with a migration background”.A public petition is calling for the motion to be withdrawn […]

Jan Davidsz de Heem’s four paintings of sumptuous food and luxury objects were produced as seriesA quartet of influential still lifes from the Dutch artist Jan Davidsz de Heem will go on display together for the first time since the 17th century at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.The four paintings were produced as part of a series by De Heem, who is […]

In the suburb of Oosterwold, a living experiment in urban agriculture, the 5,000 inhabitants find different creative ways to fulfil the unique stipulationWhen Marco de Kat starts planning his meals, he doesn’t need to travel far for fresh food. Right outside his house is an 800 square metre plot with all sorts of produce – apples, pears, peppers, basil, […]

Difficulty of cycling in suit and leather shoes is one reason casual footwear has gone corporate in the NetherlandsWouter de Wit was polishing his six pairs of leather shoes, ready for a new job in Amsterdam’s business district, when he received a text message from his new boss.“He said: ‘Before you go any further, come in and look at the dress […]

Viktor Orbán says he will not enforce ICC decision that requires court members to detain Israeli PM if he enters their countryMiddle East crisis – live updatesUK politics live – latest updatesHungary’s illiberal prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said he will invite his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, to visit in defiance of an international […]