Coos Huijsen, First Openly Gay MP, Dies at 87
Coos Huijsen, the Dutch gay rights activist and former lawmaker, has died at the age of 87. His family and husband annou...
Coos Huijsen, the Dutch gay rights activist and former lawmaker, has died at the age of 87. His family and husband annou...
Mayor Jan Kottelenberg of Neder Betuwe believes people from outside his municipality helped stir up the anti-asylum unre...
The Dutch government will limit Schiphol Airport to 478,000 flights a year, with no more than 27,000 of those taking pla...
The Dutch Cabinet has pulled planned social security cuts out of its budget just ahead of a two-day parliamentary debate...
Israel has taken away the diplomatic status of Dutch embassy staff working in Ramallah. It is an unusual move between tw...
Dutch police officers could soon find themselves barred from organizing or even showing up in uniform to religious gathe...
Public faith in the Netherlands' new coalition government has taken a steep hit, with only 16 percent of voters sayi...
The Cabinet has decided to scale back a planned increase to the childcare allowance next year, using the savings to help...
Oxfam Novib has issued a public apology to Dutch Defense Minister Dilan Yesilgoz after a TikTok post from the organizati...
Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Hans Vijlbrief has signalled that raising taxes on wealth remains a possibilit...
There is a growing gap between what Dutch residents want and what they actually trust their government to deliver. A new...
Three months into its term, the Jetten I Cabinet is facing a rough verdict from the business community. A full 73 percen...
The Netherlands has quietly shelved its plan to impose a national tax on packages arriving from China. State Secretary E...
The Dutch government is taking a firm stance on child protection in the digital age. A new proposal aims to ban children...
Grocery shopping in the Netherlands is about to get noticeably more expensive. The country's supermarket association...
US President Donald Trump cut short a television interview on Sunday after a tense back-and-forth with the show's ho...
Football fever usually grips the Netherlands well before a major tournament kicks off. This time, though, the warmth is ...
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has been unanimously chosen to lead the Pact of Free Cities, an international alliance of ...
Geert Wilders, the leader of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) — will not face criminal charges over a provoca...
Something has quietly been eroding in the Netherlands — and a fresh set of figures has finally put a number on it....
A firebomb attack on the headquarters of the Dutch political party D66 in The Hague has sent shockwaves through the Neth...
Frustration among Dutch local leaders over Germany's border controls has reached a breaking point. A deadly seven-ca...
Support for the Dutch monarchy is holding steady, but a growing number of people are questioning what it all costs. A ne...
The Dutch government is stepping up its efforts to protect Jewish institutions across the country, announcing a signific...
The Dutch Cabinet is giving serious thought to introducing a discounted public transport pass this summer, as part of a ...
A Dutch appeals court has delivered its final word on a controversial social media post that sparked a legal battle stre...
Hundreds of thousands of government workers across the Netherlands walked off the job on Tuesday in a sweeping nationwid...
The purpose of this update is to inform voters about online resources that can help them prepare for the municipal elect...
D66 and CDA are about to take the next step in forming the Dutch Cabinet. Formation scout Wouter Koolmees asked the two ...
D66, GroenLinks-PvdA, NSC and the SP have indicated their support for a bill that would remove the Minister of Justice a...
The Dutch liberal party VVD has drawn a decisive line in the sand on the mortgage interest deduction. ...
The upcoming parliamentary elections on October 29, Dutch politics is experiencing some weakened preferences. The Christ...
By Wednesday, when parliament holds its debate on the fallout from the political crisis, the vacant Cabinet posts from t...
The Dutch political party Partij voor de Dieren (Party of the Animals) has published a new manifesto which includes radi...
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) said on Friday that, with less than a week to go before the Du...
Caretaker Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp described Israeli intentions to surround Gaza City as "a wrong move"...
Amidst an increasingly severe humanitarian crisis and famine in Gaza, the Dutch House of Representatives will briefly re...
A US Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, has come to Moscow for high-level meetings with the Russian leadership. He is going t...
In the meantime, the municipal council of Stichtse Vecht is being criticized for the highest costs for collecting Christ...
Early estimates by national research bodies said that in 2024 more than 500,000 households in the Netherlands were deali...
House prices across the Netherlands increased by an average of 9.3% in June compared to the same month last year, accord...
During a city council meeting in Utrecht on Thursday evening, tensions rose sharply when a motion to boycott Israeli pro...
With October's elections closing in, the Dutch government's socio-economic think-tank SCP warns political partie...
A new monitoring report shows that the Netherlands still fares poorly in implementing important anti-corruption safeguar...
The Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) passed two contentious asylum laws in the wee hours on Tuesday. They w...
The Netherlands: The Dutch House of Representatives passed a housing law that gives the Minister of Housing more power i...
U.S President Donald Trump said Israel has accepted a plan for a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. He revealed the new...
The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) said it would not support the two asylum laws, which it opposes on the grounds tha...
The Dutch government will formally apologize to all affected children and young people involved in the childcare benefit...
Location Barendrecht has selected a site in Zuidelijk Randpark for the construction of a new reception centre for 350 as...
Canada has eliminated its proposed Digital Services Tax making room for renewed trade talks with the US. The negotiation...
World leaders leave a two-day NATO summit in The Hague with renewed pledges on defense spending, and continued support t...
The NATO summit in The Hague has ended with members agreeing to a ‘historic’ deal to raise collective defens...
Most Dutch employers see international graduates as an added value to their business, according to new research from int...
The Dutch House of Representatives is set to scrap the CO2 tax on industrial emissions after a majority – with the...
Hosting a dinner for world leaders at Huis ten Bosch Palace, King Willem-Alexander stressed he has been a strong pr...
The COA has said that the lack of long-term structure in funding is leading to unnecesarily costly and volatile asy...
President Donald Trump and other world leaders arriving for the day. This is a first for the Netherlands since the ...
The Dutch government has unveiled a new €175m aid package to assist Ukraine’s defence capabilities with ...
The Dutch Armed Forces are planning to send no less than four new satellites into orbit to track activity on the battlef...