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Chaotic scenes in The Hague as seven PVV MPs break away, leaving Geert Wilders’s party with the same number of members as it had before (one). The cabinet is urged to save Dutch residents’ DigiD data from the Trump Administration if the service is sold to the States. Experts warn thieves are targeting museums after an entire collection of antique silver disappears in Doesburg. Drug traffickers are abandoning cocaine, sometimes literally, as customs checks step up. In sport, Ajax win again in the Champions League, skaters dominate the Winter Olympics team and Botic van de Zandschulp earns a plum tie at the Australian Open.

Ophef of the week: Ban on apple sauce at nursing home leaves sour taste (Hart van Nederland)

Five caught in Pokemon LSD stamp drugs investigation

Dutch officers return from Greenland reconnaissance mission

News

Far-right PVV splits as seven MPs form new party after row with Wilders

PVV breakaway group creates new option for minority coalition

February 23 pencilled in as cabinet deadline as talks continue

MPs call on cabinet to stop DigiD system falling into American hands

National security assessment is only way to halt DigiD takeover

Customs seize less cocaine but cannabis shipments surge

Entire collection stolen from Doesburg silver museum overnight

Art detective Arthur Brand: stolen silver will be melted down (Omroep Gelderland)

Locals win right to know what pesticides are used near them

Sport

Dutch to send 39 athletes to Winter Olympics next month in Milan

Ajax defy rain in Spain to keep fragile Champions League hopes alive

PSV’s hopes hanging by a thread after debacle in Newcastle

KNVB has no plans to boycott World Cup in the US despite petition

Botic van de Zandschulp sets up clash with Novak Djokovic in Melbourne