The latest news from the Netherlands
25-11-2009 - Current EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes will get the telecommunications and IT portfolio in the new commission line-up which is currently being finalised, Dutch newspapers report on Wednesday....more
25-11-2009 - Former finance minister Gerrit Zalm may lose his job as CEO at ABN Amro if reports about mistakes made when he was chief financial officer at bankrupt bank DSB are true, finance minister Wouter Bos told tv programme RTLZ on Tuesday evening....more
25-11-2009 - Czech Muslim organisation Libertas Independent Agency is planning to invite MP Geert Wilders to show his short anti-Islam film Fitna and discuss its message with members, news agency ANP reports on Wednesday....more Comments (1)
Roman graves uncovered in IJsselstein
25-11-2009 - Archaeologists have uncovered four untouched Roman graves on land earmarked for redevelopment near IJsselstein, south of Utrecht....more
Half of first borns have unmarried parents
25-11-2009 - Some 50% of first-born babies in the Netherlands do not have married parents, according to new figures on marriage from the national statistics office CBS. ...more
Nijmegen city council board collapses
25-11-2009 - The left of centre executive board at Nijmegen city council has collapsed following a dispute over a planned increase in property taxes (OZB)....more
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