Public health institute RIVM has recommended that no-one eat eggs from hens kept at petting zoos or in yards and back gardens because they could be polluted with PFAS, a group of cancer-causing ...

Most employees working in multilingual environments in the Netherlands say language differences seldom cause misunderstandings, according to new figures from national statistics office CBS and ...

Between 50 and 60 people working in youth social services have so far been scrapped from the official register because their papers were not in order and they may have been involved in fraud and crime ...

The Netherlands had more wet days last year and above average precipitation, as Europe registered again record-breaking temperatures, a report by the EU Earth observation programme Copernicus and the ...

A 39-year-old man has been arrested in Willemstad in Curaçao on suspicion of having a leading role in the murder of crime reporter Peter R de Vries. De Vries was gunned down on July 6, 2021, in the ...

The right-wing VVD and the Socialist Party have drawn up draft legislation that would make it a criminal offence to call for or support female genital mutilation, following claims this has been ...

People working at the Amsterdam office of US law firm A&O Shearman are unhappy about the deal signed between the firm and US president Donald Trump, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Tuesday. The ...

Four in 10 asylum seekers with a residency permit have a job as their main source of income nine years on, figures from national statistics agency CBS have shown. Of the asylum seekers who obtained a ...

The number of people closing down their company rose by 37% in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to Chamber of Commerce figures. In total, almost ...

The four coalition parties making up the right wing Dutch government have still not reached agreement on their spring financial statement and talks are continuing on Tuesday. The annual spring ...

A 1-0 win over the AZ reserve team has propelled FC Volendam back into the Eredivisie for the 11th time in the club’s history. Volendam are now certain of promotion to the top flight league and, with ...

The number of homes in the Netherlands valued at over €1 million rose by 13.5% last year to more than 223,000, according to new figures from housing data agency Calcasa. The increase spans all types ...