Europe Netherlands The country is confident that it will meet the national gas storage targets set by the European Commission to ensure security of supply next winter
Europe Netherlands A citizens' initiative calling on politicians to remove abortion from Wetboek van Strafrecht, Dutch penal code, was delivered to Tweede Kamer with almost 94.000 signatures, more than double the number needed to put the topic on Tweede Kamer's agenda
Europe Netherlands Dutch parties are divided over the government's new asylum bill which, if adopted in its current form, would provide financial compensation to municipalities offering accommodation to asylum seekers
Europe Netherlands Nearly six million chickens and other birds have been culled in the last year in the Netherlands to contain an outbreak of bird flu
Europe Netherlands The Amsterdam Dance Event set a new record of 450.000 participants, in over a thousand dance initiatives organised along five days in 200 locations
Europe Netherlands About half of the children of immigrants say that the country is not welcoming for people with different backgrounds and many of them directly experience discrimination, according to new research by government's socio-economic think tank SCP
Europe Netherlands According to ABN Amro's annual Welfare Monitor, the health of healthcare workers deteriorated sharply last year, scoring almost 20% lower than in 2020
Europe Netherlands The Silja Europa, a cruise ship that will accommodate 1.000 asylum seekers between now and February, arrived in Velsen-Noord, in the province of North Holland, on Wednesday
Europe Netherlands Train operator NS has agreed with unions on a 9,25% wage settlement over 18 months, ending the dispute that sparked a series of train strikes in recent weeks
Europe Netherlands According to the Centre for Crime Prevention and Security, a rising number of sex workers are working secretly from home to be more cost-effective, despite it being far more dangerous
Europe Netherlands The hot weather is causing cockles in the Wadden Sea to die off in huge numbers, further endangering the survival of birds that depend on them for food, experts have said
Europe Netherlands The national statistics agency CBS has stated that an increasing number of people have left the central urban belt of the Netherlands, moving to rural areas
Europe Netherlands The Netherlands is no longer a world leader when it comes to the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, as this year it ranked 13th in the annual Rainbow Europe index of the human rights organisation Ilga Europe