The Netherlands

Mounting veterinary costs are causing many people to forego vaccinations and other treatment for their pets, prompting local councils to...

Four people have been injured in a fire at a complex in Velp, near Arnhem, which was lived in by...

A painting by Rembrandt that graced the wall of a small church in the south of France virtually unprotected for...

The farmers’ protests and their apparent widespread support have led to some soul searching in the Dutch media about what...

Mayors, local health boards and legal experts are highly criticial of the government’s plan to enshrine temporary legislation to manage...

Visitors to the Hoge Veluwe have recently spotted two wolf cubs in the nature reserve, bringing the number of known...

Dutch police are trying to establish who is responsible for hanging a swastika flag from a motorway bridge in Gelderland...

The downturn in building new owner occupier properties first recorded at the end of last year is continuing, according to...

The temperature is set to top 30 Celsius in most of the country by the middle of this week, weather...

Dutch national Aydin Coban has been found guilty of extortion and criminal harassment in the case of Canadian school girl...

Technology applied to Oude Rijn river helps stop plastic pollution reaching seaFive years ago, Claar-els van Delft began to suspect that plastic waste on the beach at Katwijk in the Netherlands did not come from visitors, or the sea, but from the mouth of a nearby river.“We started picking up litter and we noticed, near the river entrance, pieces that […]

Spectacle of leafy ash, oak and elm ambling through Leeuwarden’s streets offers vision of a greener futureIt is less of a marathon and more of an amble. But then a “walking forest” of 1,000 trees was never going to move at speed. Since May, volunteers have been transporting the native trees planted in wooden containers along a 3.5km stretch through […]

The latest comments from the former PM, who once said he was ‘agnostic’ on climate change, remind us some remain unmoved by scienceThe former prime minister John Howard remains an elder statesman among conservatives so when he’s asked on primetime television if he doubts that climate change is happening, his response is revealing.That moment happened […]

They’ve supercharged Shakespeare, staged impossible novels and stunned with scandalous cinema adaptations. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam reveal their radical secretsIvo van Hove, director: I’m from a small village in Belgium. My parents wanted me to be a lawyer and thought I’d never make a cent as a director. The arts in Belgium were totally […]

Wiegman has transformed the fortunes of the women’s football team and got them to the Euro semi-finals – with no fear of making tough calls along the wayFor any of the 7.6 million BBC One viewers who tuned in to watch England’s dramatic extra-time defeat of Spain in the quarter-finals of the Euros on Wednesday night, the sight of an animated blond […]

Solution to overcrowded asylum centres angers NGOs, though three ships have already been commissionedPlans to house refugees arriving in the Netherlands on cruise ships have been described as “absurd” and illegal, as the Dutch government laid out its solution to overcrowded asylum centres.Three large ships have already been commissioned and one is due […]

Farmers express fury at government drive to tackle nitrogen pollution through a major reduction in numbers of pigs, cattle and chickens in the NetherlandsAlong roads and bridges in the Netherlands, people are hanging the Dutch flag upside down. It is a sign of solidarity with the Dutch farming sector, which will also be upturned by a radical 30% reduction […]

Blaze continues to ravage pine forest in France as heatwave breaks temperature records across EuropeUK extreme heat: latest updatesA man suspected of starting a blaze that has destroyed 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of pine forest in France was questioned over a similar alleged offence a decade ago, prosecutors have said, as a searing heatwave smashed […]

His Name is My Name recounts Eline Jongsma’s efforts to trace the life and crimes of a Nazi collaborator in the NetherlandsIt was the family secret that nearly went to the grave. Gerrit Jongsma was a convicted war criminal – a small-town mayor and Nazi collaborator who sent at least one Jewish family to their deaths. He was also the great-grandfather of […]

From Europe to India and the US, the revelations have fuelled anger from across the spectrum, from the drivers to politiciansWhat are the Uber files?Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governmentsThe worldwide scale of the Uber files – in numbersThe release of the Uber files has prompted a frenzy of reaction around the world, piling […]

Cheap fares alone are not enough. Dutch-style investment, together with price cuts, could be the real game changerAfter two years of Covid-driven decline in public transport use and increasing automobile traffic globally, what can governments do to entice people out of their cars? In Germany, the response to the effects of the pandemic and the […]

Firm’s bosses knew it was fooling authorities with tool showing phantom cars, documents showIt was a trick as audacious as it was ingenious. When police or regulators opened the Uber app, they would see exactly what the public saw: dozens of cars crawling around the city, waiting to be summoned.But there was one crucial difference: these cars were fake. […]

Files appear to show Neelie Kroes trying to assist firm during ‘cooling-off’ period after leaving commissionUber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak revealsThe European Commission is facing calls to launch an inquiry into its former vice-president Neelie Kroes, after leaked files suggested she secretly helped Uber lobby the […]

Suspected organiser of shooting of Peter R de Vries is held, reportedly on suspicion of another murderDutch police have arrested a man suspected of organising the murder last year of a leading crime reporter.Peter R de Vries, 64, died nine days after he was shot in the head outside an Amsterdam TV studio last July, a crime that prosecutors say was linked to […]

Murders, corruption and ‘Mocro Maffia’ prompt Dutch to set up war chest to tackle wave of organised crime sweeping nationJournalists and lawyers under protection or murdered on the streets, court hearings guarded by the army, witness statements anonymised, and billions in dirty drug money that leaches through society, corrupting as it goes.This is the […]

Coach claims was she was raped by ‘official’ in the NetherlandsIrish FA offers full support as Pauw criticises Dutch FA responseThe Football Association of Ireland has given its full support to the women’s national-team head coach, Vera Pauw, after her revelations of rape and sexual abuse.The former Netherlands defender Pauw, who has been in her role […]

Two Belgians arrested after smartly dressed robbers smash jewellery case in front of terrified visitorsArmed robbers wearing flat caps have staged a brazen daylight raid on an international art fair in the Netherlands, smashing a jewellery case with a sledgehammer in front of terrified visitors.Police said they pulled over a car and arrested two Belgians in […]

Seventy-five years after Diary of a Young Girl’s publication, Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox’ of the journal’s bright spirit and her fateRead the poem belowFormer children’s laureate Michael Rosen has written a new poem to mark the 75th anniversary of the release of Anne Frank’s diary.The poem is titled Sonnet for Anne […]

Calls grow for greater measures against wave of BA.4 and BA.5 cases in countries from Spain to DenmarkMultiple European countries are experiencing a significant surge in new Covid-19 infections, as experts warn that with almost all restrictions lifted and booster take-up often low, cases could soar throughout the summer leading to more deaths.According to […]

Oostvaardersplassen reserve reshaped conservation in the 1980s as nature was allowed to take its course, now it is rewilding in a more managed wayRead more in our Wild world seriesWe are in a 4x4 driving through long grass on a bit of land that was once at the bottom of the North Sea. Drained in 1968, this landscape forms part of the world’s largest […]