http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/ en Copyright 2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:16:20 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/pvv_antipole_website_is_an_ope.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/pvv_antipole_website_is_an_ope.php topstory1 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:16:20 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/the_netherlands_takes_to_its_s.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/the_netherlands_takes_to_its_s.php newsletter Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:23:06 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/cda_wants_reforms_as_well_as_c.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/cda_wants_reforms_as_well_as_c.php newsletter Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:11:11 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/world_press_photo_winner_repre.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/world_press_photo_winner_repre.php newsletter Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:41:38 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/reduced_rail_services_to_conti.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/reduced_rail_services_to_conti.php newsletter topstory2 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:32:45 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/vvd_stalwart_ed_nijpels_says_h.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/vvd_stalwart_ed_nijpels_says_h.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:52:10 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/trouble_with_limburgers_or_bel.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/trouble_with_limburgers_or_bel.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:12:53 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/strike_at_nedcar_over_mitsubis.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/strike_at_nedcar_over_mitsubis.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:05:23 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/competition_authority_criticis.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/competition_authority_criticis.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:51:25 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/railways_should_change_timetab.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/railways_should_change_timetab.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:25:01 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/groenlinks_to_block_expanding.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/groenlinks_to_block_expanding.php newsletter topstory2 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:10:14 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/prime_minister_refuses_to_comm.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/prime_minister_refuses_to_comm.php newsletter Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:25:05 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/employers_leader_urges_cabinet.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/employers_leader_urges_cabinet.php newsletter Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:25:33 +0000 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 http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/all_change_at_ajax_as_supervis.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/all_change_at_ajax_as_supervis.php newsletter Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:17:35 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/journalists_not_guilty_of_infr.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/journalists_not_guilty_of_infr.php newsletter Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:14:21 +0000 Transport minister Melanie Schultz has agreed to invest nearly one billion euros into putting one kilometre of the Amsterdam ring road underground. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/government_agrees_to_amsterdam.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/government_agrees_to_amsterdam.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:02:23 +0000 Some 123,500 people started a new company in the Netherlands last year, a marginal increase on 2010, according to ING economists on Thursday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/stagnation_in_company_startups.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/stagnation_in_company_startups.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:36:17 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/inflation_reaches_25_in_januar.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/inflation_reaches_25_in_januar.php newsletter Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:26:20 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/new_animal_virus_hits_96_farms.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/new_animal_virus_hits_96_farms.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:17:08 +0000 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. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/no_11city_skating_race_ice_is.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/no_11city_skating_race_ice_is.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:21:04 +0000