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Patients who rely on medicinal cannabis are worried about supplies running out when the government ends its contract with the...

Finance minister Eelco Heinen is in a race against time to introduce a new capital gains tax system by his...

The food in 10 major Dutch cities has become less healthy over the past decade, according to new research by...

The cabinet is calling on all primary and secondary schools to ban mobile phone use starting from January.

Nine Dutch restaurants have won Michelin stars for the first time in the 2026 edition of the guide, and two...

Our regular columnist wants to know whether the Dutch are really so hard to make friends with – or is...

After almost 11 years, people can again travel by train from Groningen to the German city of Leer.

People with non-Dutch surnames get fined more often and more harshly by the benefits agency UWV’s fraud unit, according to...

US prediction platform Polymarket has gone to court in The Hague to overturn a Dutch ban on its services, arguing...

Consumer watchdog ACM has criticised educational publishers for pricey and poor-quality textbooks, calling on the industry to change its practices....

The Netherlands men’s football team beat Serbia 2-1 in the Nations League in Eindhoven on Sunday, marking Xavi Hernández’s second...

A man with dual Sudanese and Dutch nationality has been named the minister of justice for the controversial Rapid Support...

Eyewear chain Hans Anders will stop selling Meta camera glasses following demands from privacy advocates concerned about the so-called “pervert...

The total amount of student loans owed in the Netherlands has fallen for the first time, according to national statistics...

Homes near Fabel Friet, an Amsterdam chip shop whose TikTok-fuelled queues have become one of the city’s more unlikely tourist...

The cabinet has promised to rewrite part of its new tax plan for savings and investments, just two days after...

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The Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, earned an estimated €576 million from slavery, mostly in the former Dutch...

Rivers in the east of the Netherlands have fallen so low that the authorities can no longer measure whether ships...

New numbers from the Dutch statistics agency CBS show the inflation rate rose slightly in August.

Seventy-five years ago today, the Dutch had their first opportunity to watch a television broadcast: a performance of the play...

A premiere screening of the documentary Naza, which investigates the killing of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza, was...

The Netherlands avoided a first defeat under head coach Xavi Hernandez on Thursday night, coming back from 2-0 down to...

The government plans to introduce a register of real estate agents as well as a complaints desk for buyers and...

More than 30 million people visited a museum in the Netherlands in 2025, a 2.5% increase over the year prior,...

It’s October and the cultural season is off to a good start.

Young people in Amsterdam are drinking less alcohol, but drugs like ketamine have become far more popular at the same...

The European Commission has stopped payments to Sierra Leone with immediate effect because the country will not extradite fugitive drugs...

Doctors at Radboudumc have successfully completed clitoral reconstruction surgeries in women who lost part of the sex organ to vulvar...

Curaçao’s aviation authority refused landing permission for a plane carrying Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on her way back...

Celebrated writer and cabaret performer Paulien Cornelisse, known for her popular books about the Dutch language, died on Wednesday of...

An investigation into Dutch media coverage of weight loss drugs that led to several outlets being fined for breaching advertising...

People who attack emergency workers, including police officers, paramedics and train staff, will face an unconditional prison sentence from Thursday,...

The man accused of shooting dead a prison warden on a packed restaurant terrace in Amsterdam had spent time in...

The cabinet has proposed a major overhaul of its “box 3” asset tax system in the Netherlands, after years of...

Dutch homes are famously charming – and famously awkward to furnish – for cabinetmakers at Cabinetheroes, that is the whole...

The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, has called on the government to step in to save an experimental programme to...

Most data centres in the Netherlands do not make their environmental impact public, which conceals water and electricity usage, according...

Two men have been arrested in Amsterdam during the investigation into a fatal shooting at a farmhouse in Gelderland.

The education budget could be cut by €1.2 billion if talks to reform social security fail to deliver enough savings,...

Violence against train staff is getting out of control, rail union VVMC has said in a call to politicians.

More people in the Netherlands are celebrating their birthday on Wednesday than on any other day of the year, with...

Hundreds of thousands more people in the Netherlands are set to pay tax on their savings and investments from 2028...

The Dutch government has been accused of blocking the return of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to her home...

Five people have been arrested after four railway stations had to be partly evacuated on Tuesday morning when luggage was...

The Dutch government has co-signed a letter to the EU presidency demanding the bloc’s next budget, which is set every...

Buying your first home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people make in their lives.

Students who have enrolled for a sociology course at the University of Amsterdam this year have been told to leave...

A 24-year-old man from Amsterdam has been arrested on suspicion of involvement with the hacking group ShinyHunters, which has been...

Amsterdam is making a scheme to help asylum seekers find paid work a permanent fixture, after a pilot involving over...