Lawyer’s €12m fee in looted art case too high: Dutch court
A lawyer’s fee of €12m for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Nazis was too high, a Dutch court ruled Friday. More >
Tuesday 17 May 2022
A lawyer’s fee of €12m for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Nazis was too high, a Dutch court ruled Friday. More >
If there’s one thing you can’t accuse hard-line integration minister Rita Verdonk of, it’s bowing out of the cabinet gracefully… yesterday the Iron Lady once again showed her mettle by joining Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration PVV party, in calling into question the loyalty of immigrants. More >
About a year before Anne Frank began her diary in June 1942, her father started a writing project of his own. More >
A Dutch-based oil trading company paid $197 million to secure the release of three executives from an Ivory Coast prison and settle claims that it dumped toxic waste that killed at least 10 people in the West African nation More >
PSV Eindhoven has become the first football club in the Netherlands to sign a player from China. A commercial masterstroke, because when Sun Xiang appears on the field as a left-back, some 100 million extra pairs of eyes will be watching the match. More >
‘Let them be free’ is the golden rule for child-rearing in the Netherlands. No wonder Dutch kids have been rated Europe’s most fortunate. More >
Ayaan Hirsi Ali blames Islam for the miseries of the Muslim world. Her new autobiography shows that life is too complex for that. More >
They are being called The Lucky Dutch. They haven’t lost a single soldier in combat. Their tactics are said to include tea for the Taliban and Talking to the Dark Side. More >
Ben Verwaayen’s high-energy approach has transformed the stodgy BT into a modern, confident company, with its focus on the future. More >
Infidel is the aptly titled autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, probably the most famous atheist in the world More >
Many media were charmed with yesterday’s victory of chocolate crusader Teun van de Keuken. An Amsterdam court ruled that the TV journalist has the right to claim that his product, Tony’s Chocolonely, is the world’s first ‘slave free’ chocolate bar. More >
