Overheated housing market: DNB offers solutions
Escalating house prices, a lack of housing, negative social consequences and public demonstrations highlighting the urgency of the problem: the country seems fed up…
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Amsterdam sees drastic drop in tourist rental listings
Recent steps taken by Amsterdam’s city council to reduce problems associated with overtourism appear to be paying off — the number of tourist rentals…
Amsterdam’s housing crisis
There is no denying that the housing crisis in this country has taken on new urgency, with more and more people struggling and often…
Mayor Halsema wants more money to fight drug crime
What are the Dutch most known for, their cheese or their narcotics? The nation that so far was best known for its tulips, windmills,…
Skyrocketing energy prices
Since the cancellation of many Covid restrictions, all around the world the demand for fuel has skyrocketed. In 2020, in the midst of the…
Cyber threats aimed at politicians are on the rise
Digital life has added more complexity to an already tricky question: How can the authorities decipher the difference between hateful rants that contain hollow…
Current Dutch politics – and now for something new
As much as we thought and hoped there would be a new cabinet in the Dutch government to showcase in this edition, alas there…
GPs feel the strain
The extremely high pressure under which GPs work, in addition to staff shortages, means an overload for general health care in the Netherlands. Running…
Prinsjesdag 2021: No royal carriage, no horses, no audience, no frills. But the show must go on
For a second year running, there was a no-frills policy at this year’s Prinsjesdag (‘Little Princes Day’). With its adjusted corona programme, members of…
Tata Steel: environmental threat or essential industry?
In the history of mankind, the battle between environment and jobs, the latter have always won. But that is changing – people are no…
Politicians’ proposals over ever-rising house prices
The current housing crisis in the Netherlands is so big that people have taken to the streets to express their anger and frustration that…
Buyers’ nightmare leads to housing protest in Amsterdam
Imagine house-hunting and seeing a place that you like, and then demanding the walls be painted in your favorite colour, bathroom tiles changed, kitchen…
Hazing under fire after excessive violence at student associations
The phenomenon of hazing is once again under fire. Soon-to-be members of six fraternities in Amsterdam were mistreated and humiliated during the traditional hazing…
Princess Laurentien opens European School The Hague
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands will open the high school building of the European School in The Hague on Friday 1…
Foreign students coming back to the Netherlands
Busy hallways, full libraries, lively discussions about group assignments and what to do next weekend – student life is flourishing again in the Netherlands….
After 13 years, a President of Suriname visits the Netherlands
Last September, Suriname’s president Chandrikapersad “Chan” Santokhi paid an official visit to the Netherlands, the first in more than a decade of tense relations…
Does flex work law cost jobs?
New law shakes things up The Balanced Labour Market Act (WAB) was established in 2020 and was intended to increase the position of flex…
Dutch government formation talks … take three
Already six months have passed the Dutch national elections in March 2021, and there is still no majority coalition and thus no new cabinet….
Bureaucratic backlash
As if authored by Kafka himself, foreigners and Dutch nationals returning to the Netherlands have landed in a bureaucratic nightmare. According to Dutch law,…
More companies introducing compulsory vaccination
Demand for vaccination? Ever since corona vaccination has become available for everyone, there have been various instances in which businesses have required their employees…