A round up of the best stories about the Netherlands and all things Dutch from leading international publications
The assumption of virtue among those who count themselves as progressive may help to explain the popularity of right-wing agitators, as well as the link between anti-immigrant sentiment and denial of climate change. Anything, it seems, is better than admitting that the experts are right. More >
Thierry Baudet once called politicians brain-dead. Now his upstart white nationalist movement has eclipsed Geert Wilders and won more senate seats than the prime minister’s party. More >
Paint has faded because cash-strapped Van Gogh used cheap pink pigment, conservators say. More >
I know that in polarised, tribal Britain, my plant-based product would be dismissed. The Netherlands is more open-minded More >
On a balmy winter day, Klaas Einte Adema lugged his ice skates from car to rink to continue his training for a race that might never come. The 36-year-old has spent the better part of his adult life doing this — showing up at the rink six days a week, skating laps, honing technique and waiting for the weather to someday cooperate. More >
No one had spotted a new painting by the Dutch master for four decades — until the scion of a storied Amsterdam family found two. More >
The Tilburg region in the southern Netherlands has earned a reputation as the ecstasy capital of the world. Can the authorities find a way to curb the area's enormous production of MDMA? More >
In September 2018, the Netherlands was shaken by news items brought to the world by the Trouw newspaper and current affairs programme Nieuwsuur that the Dutch government was to have supported a terrorist-jihadist group, al-Jabha al-Shamiya (Levant Front) in Syria. The issue led to much upheaval in the press and politics and parliamentary debates. More >
It looks like a normal bathroom tile. But when amateur internet sleuths managed to locate it, they found the missing piece in an international child abuse investigation. This was one of the clues that led to the arrest of a suspect and the identification of nine child abuse victims. More >
The Cut Out Girl is the gripping tale of a Jewish girl who escaped the Nazis, written by her saviours’ grandson. Here, author and heroine talk about their life-affirming collaboration. More >
By driving such extreme distances, Wiebe Wakker hopes to bust Australian anxieties about electric vehicles. More >
Can the rest of Europe catch up? asks the Economist More >
Countries around the world are making it easier to choose the time and manner of your death. But doctors in the Netherlands are starting to worry about the consequences. More >
While their cities’ once-exemplary housing system is dismantled and the national social-housing stock plummets, Dutch architects remain silent Compared with countries such as Germany and France, the Netherlands has produced few great thinkers, but a huge number of famous painters, designers and other image producers. More >
Nottingham pioneers ‘Energiesprong’ after it wins £5m funding from EU. More >
The Hook of Holland, a stretch of land outside Rotterdam sliced by canals, functions in many ways like Britain’s backyard. Greenhouses stretch for miles, nurturing tulips, tomatoes and other supermarket specialties. More >
Many traditional parties are trying to co-opt the agenda of the radical right in order to defeat them. But various elections in 2018 reveal the limits of that approach, Cas Mudde writes in the Guardian. More >
Hussein Suleiman moved to the Netherlands as a Somali refugee when he was just two years old. Now, Hussein and his business partners are aiming to blend together both their African and Dutch cultures through their clothing brand, Daily Paper. More >
In 170 days, Europeans will go to the polls, but the right to freely choose their representatives is under threat. With election after election facing hacking and manipulation, no-one should be naive about what is at stake in Europe. More >
Amsterdam’s first female mayor is rethinking its centuries-old red-light district. The Wallen district sits in the oldest part of the city and at its creation in the 14th century was where free women, mostly Dutch, served sailors and traders without shame. More >
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