Prince Harry’s memoirs are also selling well in the Netherlands. The Dutch translation of Reserve came in first place in Besteller 60 this week. It is not clear how many copies were sold in the...

The Invictus Games can be a stepping stone for the participating veterans toward changing their lives for the better. Prince Harry, who devised the event, said that in conversation with Saida Magge...

The municipality of Amsterdam will stop the use of cameras made in China due to concerns about human rights and espionage, said Alderman Alexander Scholtes, who handles issues related to the city's...

People across much of the Netherlands will have a prime opportunity on Sunday night to view the Northern Lights. Waves of red, purple and even some green light could be seen across the sky as early...

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, has urged Dutch politicians to stop inciting hatred of foreigners by blaming immigrants for the housing shortage in the Nether...

International overnight rail start-up European Sleeper is launching the extension of its Brussels-Amsterdam-Berlin night train service on Monday, which will take passengers to both Dresden and...

The Dutch medical technology company Philips stated that highly skilled migrants are essential for the company to facilitate international exchange of knowledge, experience, and innovation. This...

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) acquired the Dutch payment system iDEAL with the aim of making it the standard payment solution across all European countries. According to iDEAL, the EPI...

Well-known climate activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested at an Extinction Rebellion highway blockade on Zuid-Hollandlaan in The Hague. The police have put her in a detention bus, an ANP reporter...

Two Amsterdam tenants had great success in reporting their landlord to the Huurcommissie rent tribunal for charging them exorbitant rent. The Huurcommissie ordered the landlord to lower the rent for...

For those who would like to arrive faster in Copenhagen to see the breathtaking architecture or eat delicious cinnamon buns, can look forward to the new rail connection of the Danish Railways (DSB)....

Highly skilled foreign workers who come to the Netherlands to work represent added value for the Dutch economy. It is therefore up to the government to ensure that the Netherlands remains an attrac...

Women are allowed to swim topless in Amsterdam’s pools and canals and everywhere else that swimming is permitted. Sports alderman Sofyan Mbarki did not have to actively change any regulations to...

Geert Wilders’ victory in the Dutch parliamentary election on Wednesday is a loss for human rights, Amnesty International said in a response. “A racist party has won the Dutch elections. A party that...

The Academy of Urbanism has awarded Amersfoort the international title of European City of The Year. The jury praised the city for its high quality of life, progressive planning, and innovation while...

Chip giant ASML is set to create up to 20,000 jobs with a potential expansion in Eindhoven, marking a major win for the Dutch tech industry. ASML's expansion plans will likely involve the Brainport...

The new night train between Brussels, Amsterdam, and Berlin is officially running. “We have departed!” Chris Engelsman of European Sleeper, the company that offers the night train, exclaimed to...

The D66, SP, and PvdD submitted a proposal for the King’s exemption from income tax to be scrapped. For the first time, the required two-thirds majority support is within reach in both parliament and...

There should be more opportunity for Dutch citizens to hold another nationality besides that of the Netherlands, said centrist political party D66 and left-wing political faction GroenLinks-PvdA. The...

The twelfth edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival will open on Wednesday. Until January 21, visitors can view 24 light-based artworks along the canals of the capital by boat or on foot.

The temperature in De Bilt, Utrecht briefly rose about 20 degrees Celsius on May 4, marking the first officially warm day in the Netherlands in 2023. Official weather conditions for the country are...

Hundreds of people gathered in Amsterdam and Utrecht on Thursday evening to protest against fascism, Islamophobia, racism, and anti-queer hatred after Geert Wilders’ PVV won the Dutch election....

“This year is fast becoming the wettest year since measurements began in 1906,” the KNMI said on Tuesday. The current record stands at 1,109 millimeters of rain in 1998. The meteorological institute...

After years of discussion about the lack of public toilets for women in Amsterdam, the city is investing 4 million euros into rectifying the issue. The city cannot yet say how many public toilets it...

At the start of this year, the Netherlands had 2,572 residents aged 100 or older. According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), this is more than twice as many as 20 years ago. And the number will rise...

The Northern Lights were visible in several places in the Netherlands on Sunday night. Several locals managed to capture beautiful photos of the natural phenomenon. The Northern Lights might still be...

ASML CEO Peter Wennink has again expressed his great concerns about national political decisions which threaten to limit the number of people allowed to immigrate to the Netherlands for work. He said...

Summer just does not want to reach the Netherlands this year. Maximums won’t climb higher than the low twenties in the coming week, and there’s only a 30 percent chance of thermometers reaching...

International students mostly love studying in the Netherlands. Still, they notice an increasingly negative sentiment towards them and worry about their future here, the Volkskrant reports after...

Netherlands residents have another chance to see the northern lights tonight. The best chance to see the natural phenomenon will be around 3:00 to 5:00 a.m., according to the National Oceanic and...

Amsterdam is at the top of HousingAnywhere's European ranking of the most expensive medium-term rental homes. Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht are also in the top ten of the apartment category in...

Employees consider a healthy work-life balance more important than pursuing career goals, according to research carried out by temporary employment agency Randstad. Personal happiness and mental...

An assassination attempt on Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya was prevented by Dutch authorities this February in Rotterdam, NOS reported. Goraya is a human rights activist and a dissident from...

Trevor Noah expressed that winning the Erasmus Prize is "truly an honor." The South African comedian and TV host shared these thoughts in his acceptance speech after receiving the award from King...

The labor market in the Netherlands currently has more vacancies than job seekers, and this imbalance could worsen in the upcoming years, according to the benefits agency UWV, Nu.nl reported on...

Amsterdam is one of six European cities that will soon test a system that can remotely limit the speed of electric bicycles. Amsterdam’s traffic alderman, Melanie van der Horst, tested the system...

The largest Zara store in the world opens in Rotterdam on Friday. The clothing store, located in a former C&A building on the Coolsingel, covers approximately 9,000 square meters spread over five...

The Netherlands has the second-highest broad prosperity in the European Union, with only Sweden residents being more satisfied with their lives in the “here and now.” Croatia has the lowest broad...

The Netherlands ranked first for having the best English-language skills in a country where English is not the native language. The Netherlands has been in the top three of the EF English Proficiency...

The final design of a 2-kilometer-long rooftop park on the Hofbogen railway viaduct of the former Hofplein railway line in Rotterdam was approved by the city's mayor and aldermen on Tuesday. The...

Demonstrations will take place in Amsterdam and Utrecht on Thursday in reaction to the victory of the far-right party PVV in the Dutch general elections. According to the latest forecast, the...

Saturday marks the first official warm day of the year. At the main weather station in De Bilt it was 20.1 degrees on Saturday at 12.30 p.m., which is a little early. On average, it is only 20...

The northern lights were clearly visible in large parts of the Netherlands on Sunday evening. People posted photos on social media showing a blue or green sky in various parts of the country.

More than half of the residents in the Netherlands paid over a hundred euros more than they should have for their health insurance last year, according to the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and...

One of the busiest roads in Amsterdam, the Weesperstraat, will be closed to car traffic for six weeks. The far-reaching and controversial measure is an experiment by the municipality, which wants to...

The mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen, has not complied with the demand of some parties in the city council to raise the Israeli flag at the city hall. According to van Zanen's spokesperson, this is...

The weather on Thursday and Friday will be somewhat rainy, but that will usher in a cold snap as the wind enters from the northeast. The mercury could drop as low as -6 degrees Celsius on Sunday,...

This month has officially been recorded as the warmest February ever measured in the Netherlands. The average temperature in De Bilt is expected to be between 8.1 and 8.3 degrees, weather service...

The Consumentenbond has filed a lawsuit against Albert Heijn over differences between prices stated on its shelves and what consumers end up paying at the cash register. Several studies by the...

Albert Heijn will sell self-tests for the venereal diseases gonorrhea and chlamydia. The supermarket chain and the manufacturer Homed-IQ have said they want to make the tests more accessible. Soa...

KLM employees will soon be allowed to wear sneakers under their outfits during work. Most female employees still wear heels, but they will also be allowed to choose sporting shoes from May 6. A...

Buying an average owner-occupied home in the Netherlands now requires more than twice the average income, according to calculations by data company Calcassa. The price of an average home was 452,000...

Monday will have numerous snow showers in the Netherlands. The sun will shine in between the showers, and it will be around 2-5 degrees. It can become white in places due to the showers. Locally, you...

About 10,000 people ran into the North Sea from Scheveningen Beach at exactly noon on Monday. It is typically the largest New Year's Dive in the Netherlands. This year, there were 163 dives, which...

The Rijksmuseum called 2023 “a historic year” in a press release. 2.7 million people visited the museum in 2023. The Vermeer exhibition, which ran for four months this spring, was the best-attended...

A confidential memo from the Dutch Defense Attache at the embassy in Tel Aviv warned the government that the Israeli army “intends to deliberately cause enormous destruction to infrastructure and...

Oranje fans are taking over the center of Berlin, where the Dutch team will start their quarter-final against Turkey at the European Championship at 9 p.m. They are sitting on the German capital's...

The Netherlands came back from a goal down to beat Turkey 2-1 in the quarter-final of Euro 2024 on Saturday. Stefan de Vrij and an own goal from Turkish defender Mert Muldur ensured that Oranje will...

The first storm of the year is expected to strike the Netherlands on Tuesday night with wind speeds reaching 110 kilometers per hour. Storm Henk was expected to first pummel most of England and Wales...

Scientists based in Eindhoven have managed to break a record when sending a digital file. The packet reached a speed of 22.9 petabits per second. The old record was less than half that, at 10.66...

Andries Bickerweg, the street the Russian embassy is located on in The Hague, should be renamed after opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison last week. A petition by Lissa...

Dutch rail company NS is planning to run a night train from Amsterdam to Zurich from the end of this year or early next year, working with its counterparts SBB in Switzerland, OBB in Austria, and DB...

Emergency room doctors are seeing a worrying increase in the number of patients coming in after an accident with a fatbike. Even more alarming is the amount of brain injuries. One in six people...

From Sunday, the three-country train will allow passengers to travel between Maastricht, the German city of Aachen, and Liège in Belgium without having to change trains. This will make it easier for...

Authorities at Schiphol Airport arrested Nicki Minaj, 41, on drug possession charges, sources confirmed to Nu on Saturday. The American singer and rap musician was taken into custody after she was...

The optimal performance of the Lelylijn railway line would shorten the travel time from Groningen to Amsterdam-Zuid to 68 minutes. The project organization of the Lelylijn reported this based on...

The protest petition against the planned increase in VAT on (children's) books has already been signed 100,000 times after three days. The petition has been online on boekenpetitie.nl since Wednesday...

Islamic and Moroccan organizations in the Netherlands expressed serious concern about the PVV's apparent election win on Wednesday night. "The distress and fear are very great," Habib el Kaddouri of...

More people feel unsafe in the Netherlands than two years ago. The number of people who fell victim to a traditional crime, like violence, theft, or vandalism, also increased, Statistics Netherlands...

Opinions among the Dutch are divided regarding Mark Rutte's future and the formation of a new Cabinet. Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of respondents of the EenVandaag opinion panel say that Rutte...

Netherlands residents bought 43 million books - physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks - in 2023 - the largest number of books sold since 2012. The increase in sales is entirely due to foreign-lang...

People who watch the sky got a special treat in several parts of the Netherlands on Sunday night. The northern lights were visible in Drenthe, Groningen, Gelderland, and Friesland, according to posts...

The political leadership of Amsterdam announced plans to essentially ban the construction of new hotels in the entire city. There will be some exceptions to the policy, the mayor and aldermen said in...

A European Commission study on quality of life put Groningen in third place out of 83 cities for residents' overall satisfaction. About 96 percent of those living in the northern Dutch city said they...

Cutting the 30 percent expat ruling will result in fewer knowledge migrants coming to the Netherlands, reports SEO Economic Research in a report commissioned by the Senate and the Tweede Kamer, the...

Leaked documents posted online by Ukrainian hackers show that the Kremlin has very successfully been trying to develop ties with the PVV since 2013. The documents also show that PVV leader Geert...

Over 11,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients were treated with oxygen at home during the pandemic. They were not included in the hospital figures, which means the pandemic hit the Netherlands even...

Amsterdam is preparing to lower most of its speed limits from 50 kilometers per hour down to 30 kilometers per hour. The measure will only take effect on December 8, but from Monday, the city will...

About a hundred people gathered on Dam Square in Amsterdam to protest against PVV leader and election winner Geert Wilders. Under the slogan "Not my prime minister", the demonstrators expressed their...

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam caused a massive run on Pokémon cards drawn in the style of Van Gogh last year. This caused a lot of hype on social media, which resulted in high visitor numbers for...

Summer vacations have started for almost everyone in the Netherlands, and the long-awaited vacations will soon start in the Northern region, too. Even though July has not yet brought the hoped-for...

A Dutch journalist based in Poland revealed evidence on Friday that Pope John Paul II was involved in covering up the abuse of minors while he was the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Krakow. The...

A last-ditch effort by the Dutch Cabinet to keep critically important high-tech companies in the Netherlands is nearly finalized, and will amount to at least a billion euros. The fund will allow for...

The Netherlands has almost 18 million inhabitants. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) expects to hit the milestone in August. The population currently stands at over 17,986 million people.The population is...

Thousands of children's shoes were lined up on the Vredenburgplein in Utrecht on Sunday to draw attention to the countless Palestinian children who have lost their lives in the Gaza Strip over the...