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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Royal Delft pop-up store in Westfield Mall of the Netherlands
Monday 27 September, Royal Delft opened its new pop-up store in the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands. A selection of products from recent collections…
The Royal Christmas Fair
14 days of sheer Christmas magic The Lange Voorhout in The Hague will once again host the largest multi-day Christmas fair in the Netherlands…
New Plans for Noordwijk Landmarks (hopefully!)
A couple of times last year (2020) I wrote about Ronnie van de Putte, the notorious ‘slum lord of the Netherlands’. The real estate…
Mortgage deduction abandoned?
The mortgage deduction is a topic constant under discussion. This time the discussion is about abandoning the entire mortgage deduction. Is that likely to…
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…
The African Christmas market
The African Christmas market brings together businesses providing unique products and services for the African community in the Netherlands. The main purpose of the…
Our Biggest Loss
Slowly but surely, we’ve been able to return to our sports. Our gyms have reopened, our sports clubs can receive their members once again…
The Golden Carriage in the Amsterdam Museum
After a restoration of more than five years, the Dutch Royal Golden Carriage is on show for the first time in the Amsterdam Museum….
Betweenness – neither here nor there
With his use of multimedia and the internet, Oliver Laric is a modern artist par excellence. Recently Modern Forms of London, a private organization…
World Premiere: Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Drents Museum
From 8 October 2021 to 27 March 2022, the Drents Museum is proudly presenting a world premiere with a major exhibition devoted to the…
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…
Loeki de Leeuw is back!
The lovable stop-motion character from the 1970s and 80s is back! Who is Loeki de Leeuw? Loeki the Lion is the mascot created by…
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,…
Martin Schoeller exhibits in Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof
‘Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust’ 5 September 2021 – 31 January 2022 Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht presents an exhibition of…
MAISON AMSTERDAM major fashion exhibition in De Nieuwe Kerk
A collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum and a wide range of fashion designers From Saturday 18 September 2021, De Nieuwe Kerk will be the…
Boutique Hotel Texel – Charming boutique hotel & spa in the centre of Texel
Once in a while you meet them: friends you haven’t seen for a long time, but with whom you can pick up right where…
Paleis Het Loo – a must visit
Paleis Het Loo is located on the edge of Apeldoorn. Since 1984 is (former Royal) Paleis Het Loo a museum. The furnished rooms and…
How to run an environmentally friendly small business
This summer has brought the harsh realities of climate change to light like never before. Wildfires across Greece and Turkey, flooding in Germany, Belgium…
The best time on the beach
The best time on the beach is right now – right after a storm has just passed. Sure, being on the beach during the…