A 17th-century Dutch ‘fluit’ trading ship discovered by a Finnish diver last year at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has been surely dated 1636 and probably identified as famous De Zwaan (the Swan)

The government needs to be more transparent about how the billions of euro in funds allocated to combating climate change will be used, states the Court of Auditors in a letter to the parliament

War in Ukraine and growing numbers of migrants coming to the Netherlands have increased the urgency to create new housing, the Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning wrote in an action plan sent to the House of Representatives

The government has earmarked €11 million for an 'action plan' against sexual harassment and violence, saying that 22% of women and 6% of men have been victims of sexual violence

In 2022, the Dutch population grew almost twice as fast as in the previous year, Statistics Netherlands reports; with birth and death rates remaining virtually unchanged, the population growth can be entirely attributed to foreign immigration