Fourteen Occupy Amsterdam demonstrators were arrested outside the former stock exchange in the city centre on Thursday, as officials moved in to reduce the size of the camp and improve hygiene.

Amsterdam’s mayor Eberhard van der Laan had given protestors until today to hand back 75% of the square and to meet hygiene and fire prevention standards.
‘We asked them to go and they did not,’ a police spokeswoman told the Telegraaf. The demonstrators did not resist arrest and the atmosphere was friendly, she said.
The Telegraaf said council officials and demonstrators worked together to clean up the camp, which was set up seven weeks ago.
‘We are not all hippies, jobless and communists,’ psychology student Coline van Nunspeet told the paper.