A website set up by the anti-immigration PVV to report problems with central and eastern Europeans in the Netherlands is an ‘open call to intolerance’, Europe’s justice commissioner Viviane Reding said on Friday evening. More...

Dutch Rail will continue to operate reduced services for the foreseeable future in an effort to avoid any more weather-created problems, passenger service company NS and rail operator ProRail said on Friday. More... comments (1)

Left-wing green party GroenLinks will not support the government in expanding the current police training mission in northern Afghanistan to cover border police, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. More... comments (1)

The Netherlands takes to its skates
The Dutch will take to their skates en masse this weekend as the big freeze enters its last days. Dozens of official routes have been opened up across the country's lakes and waterways. More... comments (2)

CDA wants reforms as well as cuts
The Christian Democrats will not agree to more cuts in government spending without reforms to healthcare, the housing market and employment legislation, deputy prime minister Maxime Verhagen says in an interview with the Telegraaf, due to be published on Saturday. More...

World Press Photo winner 'represents the Arab Spring'
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won this year's main World Press Photo award for his picture of a woman swathed in black, holding a member of her family who had been injured during protests in Yemen. More...

VVD stalwart Ed Nijpels says his party is moving too close to the PVV
VVD party stalwart Ed Nijpels thinks his party is drifting too far in the direction of the anti-Islam PVV and creating a 'graveyard of unfulfilled promises', he says in an interview with Friday's AD. More...

Trouble with Limburgers or Belgians? Complaint websites spring up
The decision by the PVV to set up a website where people can report problems with central and eastern Europeans has spawned a flood of other websites poking fun at the anti-immigration party's project. More... comments (1)

Strike at Nedcar over Mitsubishi pull-out
Workers at the Nedcar car-making plant in Born went on strike on Friday in protest at plans by Japanese car manufacturer Mitsubishi to pull out, Nos television reports. More...

Competition authority criticises insurance comparison site
Most websites which compare savings schemes and travel insurance contain misleading or wrong information and many are unclear about their funding or ownership structure, the Dutch competition authority NMa said on Friday. More...

Railways should change timetables before snow starts: minister
Passenger transport group NS and track service company ProRail should take action to combat the effects of wintry weather as soon as weather forecasters say the snow is on its way, transport minister Melanie Schultz told MPs on Thursday. More... comments (1)

Prime minister refuses to comment on PVV's anti-Pole website
Prime minister Mark Rutte has refused to comment on a website set up by the anti-immigration PVV to record complaints about central and eastern Europeans in the Netherlands, the Telegraaf reports on Friday. More... comments (20)

Employers leader urges cabinet to distance itself from anti-Pole website
The government should distance itself from a website set up by the anti-immigration PVV to record complaints about central and eastern Europeans in the Netherlands, employers' chief Bernard Wientjes said on Thursday. More... comments (9)

All change at Ajax as supervisory board and others step down
The supervisory board at Amsterdam football club Ajax resigned on Thursday, ahead of a crucial shareholders meeting and just days after Johan Cruijff won a court case against the club More... comments (1)

Journalists not guilty of infringing Nazi war criminal's privacy
A court in Germany has found two Dutch journalists not guilty of infringing the privacy of convicted Nazi war criminal Heinrich Boere by filming him using a secret camera. More... comments (1)

Government agrees to Amsterdam ring road tunnel
Transport minister Melanie Schultz has agreed to invest nearly one billion euros into putting one kilometre of the Amsterdam ring road underground. More... comments (7)

Stagnation in company start-ups
Some 123,500 people started a new company in the Netherlands last year, a marginal increase on 2010, according to ING economists on Thursday. More... comments (1)

Inflation reaches 2.5% in January, or 2.9% according to EU figures
The Dutch annual rate of inflation reached 2.5% in January, up slightly on the December figure, the national statistics office CBS said on Thursday. More... comments (2)

New animal virus hits 96 farms
The number of farms affected by a virus which causes sheep and cows to give birth to dead or deformed offspring has reached 96, farm minister Henk Bleker wrote in a briefing to MPs on Thursday. More...

No 11-city skating race: ice is not good enough, say organisers
Hopes that the first 200 km 11-city ice skating race in 15 years will take place this weekend were dashed on Wednesday evening, when the organisers said the ice is still too thin. More... comments (4)

We need a pay and benefit freeze for all, says employers leader
It is high time there was a national agreement on an across-the-board pay freeze, employers’ leader Bernard Wientjes says in a letter in Thursday’s Trouw. More... comments (11)

First-time buyers are key to housing market recovery: EIB
Attracting first-time buyers back into the housing market is key to the recovery, according to a new report from the construction sector's economic institute EIB. More... comments (5)

Collector pays €2,100 for first edition Suske en Wiske
A Dutch collector has paid €2,100 via an online auction for a first edition comic featuring the popular Belgian cartoon duo Suske and Wiske. More...

Romania, Bulgaria improve on corruption but not enough: minister
Romania and Bulgaria have taken steps to reduce corruption but have not done enough to be able to join the EU's Schengen open border area, the Netherlands said on Wednesday. More... comments (2)

Telecom firm KPN targeted by hackers
Telecoms firm KPN was targeted by hackers last month, who managed to break into the company's computer systems and access confidential private and corporate client details, Nos radio reports. More... comments (1)

Missing jewels worth €7m turn up in hotel cleaner's cupboard
Five years after they disappeared, jewels belonging to the wife of the former US ambassador to the Netherlands have turned up in the home of a hotel cleaner in The Hague. More... comments (2)