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After a week of strategic bickering between the coalition parties, Dick Schoof brokers a deal to split the asylum ministry three ways, making it less fragmented than it was under Marjolein Faber. Amsterdam unveils a plan to get international workers to speak Dutch and get involved in community work, in the hope that the locals will follow suit. Eurostar celebrates its new expanded service in a deserted Amsterdam Central Station after NS workers go on strike again. And in football, Tijjani Reijnders and Quincy Promes are involved in big moves for very different reasons.

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News

Coalition parties agree deal to split up asylum ministry

More Syrians expected to be sent home after risk level reduced

Court orders publication of report warning of fragile situation in Syria

Biggest rail union calls strike in north and south on Friday

Eurostar adds more direct trains between Amsterdam and London

Amsterdam councillors back “expat” integration plan

D66 Amsterdam: don’t scapegoat international workers, include them

Fewer people from India, Britain and Poland look for jobs in Netherlands

MPs back plan to ban smartphones all day in Dutch secondary schools

Amazon and Meta quietly drop sponsorship of Pride Amsterdam

Sport

Memphis Depay becomes Oranje’s joint top scorer with brace against Malta

Midfielder Tijjani Reijnders joins Manchester City in €70m deal

Quincy Promes set to be extradited to Netherlands after arrest in Dubai