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Rob Jetten starts his term one finance minister short of a full cabinet after Natalie van Berkel is found to have inflated her credentials on LinkedIn. More new homes are being built, but not enough to tackle the housing shortage or cool the property market. The armed forces are struggling to recruit chefs, mechanics and other support staff in the battle to spend the extra Nato billions. A new rail link is planned to connect Eindhoven to Brussels. And the Dutch shorttrack skaters eclipse the stars of the big oval at the Winter Olympics.

Ophef of the week: Fines for Carnaval floats spoil the party in Helmond

Hot tip leads to cannabis plantation in motorway bridge support

D66 agriculture minister pranked TV chefs as schoolboy with fish pie

News

D66 candidate for finance ministry pays price for misleading LinkedIn profile

Dummies’ guide to the main parties in local elections

Political parties start waking up to the power of the expat vote

More houses built in Q4 2025 but still well short of government target

Many households are living in homes that are too big for them

Blaricum has most expensive homes in Netherlands, Kerkrade the cheapest

Defence ministry turns to recruitment agencies to tackle personnel shortfall

Support for Maga ideas grows but Dutch reject US interference

New Eindhoven to Brussels train line aims to boost cross-border ties

Sport

Van ’t Wout brothers add shorttrack silver and bronze to Dutch medal hall

Shorttrack star Xandra Velzeboer bags second Olympic gold at 1000m

Femke Kok takes gold in 500m, Leerdam second in reversal of 1000m

Silver for Dutch women in skating team pursuit as China prove too strong

Dutch bow out of T20 World Cup with valiant 17-run loss to hosts India

Chess grandmaster Jan Timman, “best of the West”, dies aged 74