The Netherlands was once a byword for architecture that was cool, calm and collected. Not any more. Jonathan Glancey is thrilled by a madcap new hotel More >

Day in and day out, Dutch Muslims are told their religion is ‘a fascist ideology’ and ‘a threat to Dutch society’. They hear their ‘so-called prophet Muhammad’ is ‘a barbarian, a mass murderer and a paedophile’. But they are remarkably calm about it all. More >

Teachers in the Netherlands are struggling to explain to their students that anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is allowed to say things that would not be tolerated in school. More >

A group of former Polaroid employees in Holland have brought the instant film back to life – nearly two years after the camera maker ceased production. More >

The sex products Dutch Muslims used to bring back from the Middle East are now available online. Abdelaziz Aouragh is a Muslim, lives in Amsterdam, and deals in sex articles. More >

Last month the Bundesliga was in awe after the arrival of Ruud van Nistelrooy. When he scored twice in five minutes as a substitute for Hamburg in Stuttgart, the whole country seemed to come to a halt and, along with Arjen Robben, Eljero Elia, and Rafael van der Vaart – who scored against Sevilla at the weekend – the Dutch stars plying their trade in the foreign leagues are shining brightly, even if the national side continue to be named... More >

A new biography of the late Dutch prince Bernhard, the current queen’s father, reveals more of his Nazi past. More >

When the far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders came to the UK to promote his brand of Islamophobia last year, he made it only as far as Heathrow before being unceremoniously turned away and flown back to his native country. More >

A team of experts from London and New York will come to Amsterdam to assist the local Sotheby’s branch where the most important collection of modern art ever on sale in the Netherlands will be auctioned on March 8. More >

In the Netherlands, citizens and businesses give away four million euros to charities, churches or other faith-based organisations every year. And the amount donated has been rising for decades. More >

The downfall of the Netherlands’ government didn’t make headlines in the US. But those involved in the president’s Afghanistan policy are very concerned about it. More >

So much for home-ice advantage. Canada is mostly getting frozen out at the speed skating oval despite logging the most practice time of any country. More >

On stage at Acu, a bar and music club in Utrecht, Noam Cohen stopped briefly to address the crowd. “There’s so much room!” Mr. Cohen, the lead singer of the hardcore band This Routine Is Hell, yelled into his microphone, surveying the gap between the band and the crowd, clad mostly in black. More >

From a strip mall in this town of 7,200, Willy van Bakel built a multimillion-dollar business bringing fellow Dutch dairy farmers to America. They’re ‘dreamers’ like himself, he says. More >

Doede Visser’s eyes grow misty when he recalls eating eel as a child. “Only the children of fishermen know what it’s like to have it, when still warm, and the skin puts a tingling feeling on your lips,” said Mr. Visser, 63. More >

They approach the starting line, two at a time, before an official with a French accent asks them if they’re “re-dee?” The gun goes off, and they skate quietly around a 400-meter oval, swaying side-to-side, one hand on resting on their lower back. More >

George Harinck, Professor in History at the Free University in Amsterdam and an all-round nice guy, has written a piece in Nederlands Dagblad on the knee-jerk Atlanticism of Dutch foreign policy that I just can’t leave alone. More >

Tate Modern has a whopper of a show, with a title to match its size: “Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World.” Though this is the first major exhibition in the U.K. dedicated to the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), its early Modernist scope is larger than the one man, who worked in practically all the art forms extant in his lifetime. More >

European governments kept up the pressure on Switzerland and its famed banking secrecy laws, with fresh reports from the Netherlands and Belgium raising the stakes in the battle to find tax evaders. More >

Political parties across the board want to do away with the Dutch system of paying every student a grant. Angry students held sit-ins at university buildings in several cities on Monday. More >