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Amsterdam to face traffic chaos in 2025 as events and work clash
Dec 19, 2024 · A combination of large-scale building work and special events will bring traffic around Amsterdam to a standstill next year, the infrastructure ministry’s roads department has warned. One in five cars will have to stay put or Amsterdam will become inaccessible to private vehicles., the ministry said. Planned for next year are work on the rail network and roads as well as events such as the ...
Anti-Semitism in the Netherlands: lessons from the Holocaust
Dec 13, 2024 · The new right-wing Dutch government wants to make sure that everyone who does an integration course in the Netherlands learns about the Holocaust and its victims. When asked to explain why, housing minister Mona Keijzer caused outrage when she claimed on a chat show earlier this year that “anti-Semitism is almost part of the Islamic culture” in some countries. Only last week, the Dutch ...
Quality of life is highest in some rural Dutch areas: CBS
Dec 9, 2024 · Rural areas in Utrecht, the Eindhoven region and the centre of Overijssel score highest for quality of life in the Netherlands, the latest CBS monitor has shown. In general, people in rural areas enjoy a better quality of life compared to city dwellers, CBS said, despite a marked difference between the three highest-rated rural areas and the northeast of Groningen and Drenthe. The CBS defines ...
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War archive flooded with requests to see files of collaborators
Jan 2, 2025 · Thousands of people have requested to see the files of alleged Nazi collaborators on the first day that the national archive has been open to the public online. The CABR archive holds the names of 425,000 people suspected of having collaborated with the Germans in some form, who betrayed fellow citizens, were a member of the Nazi affiliated NSB or fought in the German army. Both the names of ...
Volume of cheap stuff from China flooding NL is “unsustainable”
6 days ago · Government monitoring bodies have called on economic affairs minister Dirk Beljaars to tackle the huge flow of items from mainly Chinese web shops coming into the country. In 2024 some 1.4 billion packages entered the Netherlands, twice as many as the year before and eight times the 2021 volume, officials say. Environment inspectorate ILT, product safety watchdog NVWA, digital infrastructure ...
10 things you need to know about the end of World War II in the ...
May 3, 2015 · The Netherlands celebrates 70 years since the end of World War II on May 5. But, of course, the war did not end in a day. Here’s an overview of the main events leading up to May 5 and beyond. Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday) On September 4, 1944, Dutch prime minister-in-exile Pieter Gerbrandy broadcast the news that Breda had been liberated. ‘The hour of freedom has struck,’ he proclaimed ...
Action needed or NL will not have enough drinking water in 2030
Jan 15, 2025 · Quicker licencing procedures for existing water extraction sites and designating new sites are two of the main measures needed to ensure the Netherlands has enough drinking water in 2030, according to a new action plan. The plan was put together following a warning from public health organisation RIVM two years ago, citing existing regional water shortages and increasing demand boosted by ...
New year, new attempt: MPs to revive firework ban legislation
6 days ago · The pro-animal PvdD and the GroenLinks-PvdA alliance are planning a new attempt to introduce a nationwide ban on consumer fireworks, RTL Nieuws reported on Friday. The two parties intend to revive legislation they drafted in 2022 but which never went to a vote because not enough MPs supported it. Now, however, the parties believe this may have changed. “We think society is ready for a ban ...