Natalia Robledo-Contreras had to fight from the age of eight to be recognised as Dutch and almost lost her family in the process More >

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is stuck between European partners urging him to engage in Europe at this critical moment and a growing chorus at home threatening to punish him if he does so. More >

One year after the burqa ban in the Netherlands, Muslim women have reported increased discrimination and violence. Adding to the frustration, face masks against COVID-19 have become mandatory on Dutch public transport. More >

Dutch public health officials are unbending with respect to what they consider to be lack of scientific evidence on the efficacy of non-medical masks in limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus. More >

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has taken on the mantle of ‘Dr No’ across the capitals of Europe after he took a tough stance on the EU’s coronavirus bailout fund. But in the Netherlands, most people supported his stance on EU integration. More >

When Donald Trump claimed his administration would be ‘designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization [sic]’ the day before threatening to send the military to quell nationwide protests against racist police violence earlier this summer, he found a notable voice of support in Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch far-right party Forum for Democracy (FvD). More >

The Netherlands may have figured out something about working from home (pandemic or no) that the rest of the world has yet to learn. More >

Black Lives Matter has shaken up political discussions about racism across the globe. In the Netherlands, it has led to yet another escalation around the ‘Black Pete’ controversy, discussed in this blog earlier this year. More >

This week the building that houses the art institutions TENT and the institution that insists on still calling itself Witte de With was defaced in protest to the delay in renaming the latter institution. More >

Canals shimmer beside medieval cobbled streets and beneath the elegant (and mostly empty) bridges. There’s not even a whiff of cannabis in the air. More >

Taiwan’s Covid-19 measures could be seen as intrusive. But seven people have died there, compared with 5,000 in the Netherlands. More >

King’s Day in the Netherlands is always more or less the same. Almost the whole country takes the day off, and the streets are flooded with people dressed in orange, drinking beer and generally acting as if they’ve been given get-out-of-jail-free cards. More >

As we all long for freedom from lockdowns and home confinement, people would love to believe ‘there is an app for that’. Many countries are discussing, planning or even implementing so-called contact tracing apps. There are heated debates about privacy and security issues. More >

The Volkskrant has produced an animated walk-through showing the different scenarios that could lead us out of the coronavirus pandemic and explaining how we ended up in our intelligent lockdown in the first place. More >

AZ Alkmaar were chasing the Eredivisie title with a group who had been at the club since the age of 12. Adam Bate caught up with academy director Paul Brandenburg to find out how they did it… More >

Isolated in a recent European Union council of ministers, with attitudes described by European leaders past and present as ‘repugnant’. It sounds like an old script of Britain in the EU. Yet it is the Netherlands that has found itself at the heart of the union’s most bitter row during the coronavirus pandemic. More >

It might not win any beauty contests, but the Dutch port is a slow burner of a city, where discovering its charms requires a little persistence. More >