Last week, finance minister Wouter Bos announced that Schiphol airport was to stay entirely in state hands, ending a long hard-fought campaign both for and against privatisation. More >
Last week, finance minister Wouter Bos announced that Schiphol airport was to stay entirely in state hands, ending a long hard-fought campaign both for and against privatisation. More >
It’s official. Poles are the new Moroccans. We’ve had the ‘stealing our jobs’ the ‘gay-hating’ and the ‘criminal’ stories and now a majority of MPs want Poles to go through the same integration process as non-EU residents because they are worried about ghetto-forming and language difficulties. More >
So it’s over – a six-month long battle resulting in the biggest takeover in financial services history and the break-up of the Netherlands biggest bank ABN Amro. More >
For the Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium striving to buy ABN Amro, this week should mark a final stage in the biggest financial services deal. The €71bn ($101bn) offer for the Dutch lender is due to close and, if the trio of banks completes its mammoth fundraising effort, it is expected to win ABN’s hand after a six-month scrap. More >
Though its population is not quite 18,000, the Dutch town of Urk already has more Protestant churches than some small cities. For this remote and traditional fishing community, though, 19 established places of worship are not enough, so plans are afoot to build two more. More >
A tiny urn of ashes – bearing only the inscription, Soldier of Orange –will solemnly be carried from an aeroplane at Amsterdam airport on Thursday. For Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who is rumoured to have planned a royal reception, it will be a poignant moment: the return to his native soil of the remains of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Holland’s most heroic and decorated Second World War resistance fighter. More >