Election City Archives - DutchNews.nl

Utrecht: a race for the top in the green, cycling city

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 9: Utrecht. Students in Utrecht were surprised to be woken to a doorstep delivery of croissants and the cheery face of D66 parliamentary leader Jan Paternotte on Saturday. ‘I saw more people in their pyjamas than I had done in months,’ he told DutchNews.nl. But it is a race worth getting students out of... More >

Election watch: Housing is key in Delft

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 5: Delft Delft, situated between The Hague and Rotterdam, is mostly famous for its blue-patterned pottery and scientific contributions. You might have heard the new health minister, Ernst Kuipers, make repeated references to coronavirus-related research undertaken at Delft University of Technology. But locals aren’t talking about either of those things as elections approach. For... More >

Election watch: Maastricht links to Europe

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 7: Maastricht. Maastricht is a city at a crossroads. On Dutch maps the capital of Limburg sits at the bottom of a narrow strip of Dutch territory, but in reality it is one corner of a region of nearly four million people spread across three countries and five languages. To the east are the... More >

Election watch: Rotterdam, city with punch

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 5: Rotterdam When a super-yacht being built for Jeff Bezos threatened to temporarily demolish a historic bridge earlier this year, the city of Rotterdam was world news. Rotterdammers of many different backgrounds, apparently, share a desire to throw rotten eggs at the yacht if it does make its passage through De Hef bridge on... More >

Local election watch: Groningen

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 4: Groningen. The landscape is shifting dramatically in the northern city of Groningen, and not just in political terms. For half a century the city and the surrounding province fuelled the postwar boom with gas from the Slochteren field. But the extraction triggered hundreds of earthquakes that prompted the government to wind down production... More >

Election watch: more of the same in Leiden

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 3: Leiden. Twelve political parties will be vying for control of ‘Sleutelstad’ in this year’s elections, but the safe bet is the three that have dominated regional politics for over a decade will remain in power. The current and presumably future reigning trio are D66, GroenLinks, and VVD. If they hold the line and... More >

The Hague: De Mos in front despite inquiry

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 2: The Hague. Its nickname is the city of international peace and justice, but local politics in The Hague have been anything but peaceful in the last four years. The previous mayor, Pauline Krikke, resigned in 2019 in the wake of a damning report into the New Year beach bonfires – known as vreugdevuren.... More >

Local election watch: Eindhoven

DutchNews.nl is publishing 10 articles focusing on the 10 cities where most international residents live in the run up to the local elections in March. Part 1: Eindhoven. Eindhoven hit the headlines earlier this month with the news that officials had agreed to spend €29m buying a country estate owned by a textiles magnate and built by the Philips family. It is an interesting move coming from a city where the council is run by a four party coalition ranging... More >

Latest news

More Latest news >

Utrecht: a race for the top in the green, cycling city
Amsterdam election: a neck and neck race between GroenLinks and D66
Delft - where housing is the talk of the town
Maastricht, a European city building bridges
Rotterdam, a diverse city with a port and which packs a punch
Groningen is a young city rebuilding for the future
Leiden, a university town facing four more years of the same
In The Hague, De Mos tops polls in a divided city
Eindhoven targets international voters with plenty of English

Election watch: Maastricht links to Europe

Election watch: Maastricht links to Europe

Latest news

Features

The long and winding road to getting a Dutch driving licence

6 self-study tips for improving your Dutch in 2023

A bird’s eye view of Lithuanian nature in Druskininkai

DutchNews podcast – The Ballistic Bitterballen Edition – Week 3 2023

No more excuses! It’s time to learn Dutch with Talencoach

Wholesale gas prices are going down, so why are bills still high?

Daily newsletter

Best of the web