The caretaker cabinet on Friday sided with MPs in halting caretaker agriculture minister Femke Wiersma’s plan to allow farmers to spread more manure on their land, because of its impact on water ...

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Online videos and family vlogs featuring children and which are aimed at making money have become a “new form of child labour” and will be subject to stricter rules, outgoing social affairs minister ...

Geothermal heat has the potential to fulfill 25% of demand for domestic heating in the Netherlands, Dutch state energy company EBN has said. The EBN is calling for new housing to be realised in places ...

Residents living near Tata Steel in IJmuiden have filed a mass legal claim against the steelmaker, seeking compensation for ...

Dutch economic growth was “significantly higher” in 2025 than expected in the spring, the Dutch central bank said on Friday.

A Rotterdam court has ordered a man who stabbed another to death near the city’s Erasmus bridge last year should be held in a ...

EU leaders have agreed to provide Ukraine with a €90 billion interest-free loan, a deal Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof said would allow the country to continue both its economic recovery and its ...

A home draw against Polish side Jagiellonia Bialystok on Thursday night has put paid to AZ’s hopes of qualifying directly for the round of 16 in this year’s Conference League. AZ, down to 10 men for ...

Amsterdam city council plans to place further restrictions on Airbnb rentals in eight parts of the city, cutting the maximum number of nights a property can be let out to tourists from 30 to 15. The ...

This year some 31,000 motorists were sent on an alcohol and drugs awareness course or on had to undergo a psychiatric ...

Companies making use of freelancers who should be employed on normal contracts should not be fined from next year, a majority of MPs have told the outgoing cabinet. Ministers had planned to get tough ...