Accidents

Dangerous drivers face extra surveillance under points system

Discrimination

Singer Sophie Straat cleared of discrimination over mosh pit

Society

Drowning risk far higher for children born outside Europe: CBS

Rotterdam

Night-time ban on entering Rotterdam neighbourhood begins

Business

Unilever backs London for food division secondary listing

Life in the Netherlands

“The Dutch are still alive and floating despite all this water”

Save yourselves while you still can: an assimilated introduction

Dutch destinations: Take it easy on a visit to Naarden Vesting

It is too hot to do anything except complain about the heat

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Economy

Half a million Dutch households in energy poverty

Thuisbezorgd hides costs and fakes discounts: consumer group

Big firms hired 13,500 refugees and asylum seekers last year

Picnic makes first operating profit in NL

Court orders ING to disclose Google Pay data deal

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Art & culture

Singer Sophie Straat cleared of discrimination over mosh pit

Rising costs force Amsterdam’s Kwaku festival to change

What a mess: visitors step in peanut butter floor

Dutch Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb

Soldaat van Oranje musical closes after almost 16 years

The famous peanut butter floor returns to Rotterdam

Podcast

Podcast: The What's The Permit Deadline Time, Mr Wolf? Edition

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Podcast: The Vitesse Arnhem of Cabinets Edition

Sport

Thousands cross finishing line as Nijmegen Vierdaagse ends

Ajax beat Vojvodina in Conference League qualifier, Twente lose

They are off: 108th edition of the Nijmeegse Vierdaagse begins

Vitesse keeps licence as Supreme Court rejects KNVB appeal

Morocco fans mourn World Cup exit in mostly calm night

Eredivisie club warns scammers are cashing in on bogus transfers

Books

Blood on Her Tongue: A modern vampire tale not for the squeamish

Bearer of Bad News: a quirky and funny read

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Europe

Netherlands to join military exercises with Ukrainian army

Philip Morris used AI to generate public opposition to EU rules

Netherlands to spend another €500m on military aid for Ukraine

Dutch secrecy rules hide backers of Trump-linked Albanian resort

European migration pact "no guarantee" of fewer refugees

Jetten: Europe “naïve” to shelter under US security umbrella

Society

Drowning risk far higher for children born outside Europe: CBS

Amsterdam police chief pledges safety ahead of WorldPride

Highly contagious impetigo infection on the rise among children

Class ranking skews school advice for Dutch 12-year-olds: Study

Deaths linked to online medicines prompt national study

Ex-police officers seek recognition after apology to Moluccans

Politics

Sixteen councils still without a coalition, four months on

Van Weel in Ghana to rally West African pressure on Bolle Jos

Dutch ban on Israeli settlement goods to start on September 22

Ex-police officers seek recognition after apology to Moluccans

Dutch councils still publishing residents’ personal data

De Mos returns to power in The Hague amid asylum row

Health

Unproven policy means less care for young women in crisis

Eindhoven students build world’s first solar-powered ambulance

Potentially toxic “squishy dumplings” taken off store shelves

Chronic health issues in young vapers alarmingly increasing

Almost 500 more deaths recorded due to extreme heat

PFAS found in all Dutch breast milk samples, study finds

Housing

House prices rising fastest in Groningen, slowest in Amsterdam

Furnishing a Dutch rental home: what internationals should know

Estate agents demand Funda scrap “disproportionate” new fees

Sell off of private rental properties has driven up prices

Record number of Dutch homes go on sale as landlords sell up

Plan to build 8,000 houses 7m below sea level set to go ahead

Education

Class ranking skews school advice for Dutch 12-year-olds: Study

Music colleges draw internationals as Dutch student share falls

Amsterdam Islamic school guilty of mismanagement, inspectors say

Staff sound alarm over “toxic” culture at The Hague college

FvD gets round rules to establish its own school in Almere

Death and grief should be part of school curriculum, say experts