Compulsory farm buyouts will now be replaced with a voluntary scheme, which was one of the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement’s (BBB) conditions for entering government with Mr Wilders. The BBB triumphed in regional elections after a vote dominated by the tractors’ protests that inspired similar populist uprisings against EU green rules across Europe. In the general...
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Eurovision 2024 latest: Dutch entry Joost Klein disqualified from final and thousands protest Israel
Altogether, 37 nations entered the 2024 contest. Following the semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday, 26 made it through: Ukraine, Serbia, Portugal, Slovenia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Finland, Croatia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Latvia, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia and Armenia, plus the “Big Five”, which go through automatically – the UK, Germany, France, Spain and...
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The Netherlands hardens stance as transgender law voted down
Those three parties are in coalition talks with the pro-business VVD, which voted not to withdraw the bill and was the dominant party in the last government. Meanwhile, 70 MPs voted against ditching the bill. The caretaker government will now have to decide what to do about the motion brought by NSC, which was formed...
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Sex work from home row splits the Netherlands
Dutch cities have warned that plans to allow sex workers to work from home will be a “nuisance” for families. Some authorities are in favour but other cities fear it will cause antisocial behaviour in residential neighbourhoods and make it harder to spot abuse. Sex work is legal in the Netherlands but the laws have...
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Dutch Crown Princess Amalia fled to Spain over kidnap fears
NOS said the princess moved to the Spanish capital instead. Amalia speaks fluent Spanish and her mother Queen Maxima, 52, was born and grew up in Argentina. The threat to Amalia had not disappeared but she was able to live and study in the Netherlands again, thanks to unspecified “measures”, NOS said. She is reportedly...
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Amsterdam doesn’t want any more tourists – so here are 10 alternatives
Best for foodies and the good life The oldest city in the Netherlands, Maastricht (on a narrow tongue of land that pierces south between Belgium and Germany) is also one of the most beautiful, with huge cafe-filled squares, fine buildings, cobbled alleys to explore, and a wide, slow river meandering through the middle. To the...
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Amsterdam accused of ‘lazy stereotyping’ in latest campaign against British visitors
Booth adds: “No one planning on coming to the city for a stag do will care that such activities are ‘forbidden’, much less will spend time doing an online quiz to find that out. Surely, there are better ways to dissuade problem visitors than this?” Catherine Marie, an expert on tourism brand strategy at The...
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How the Dutch experiment with puberty blockers turned toxic
Critics of the Dutch Protocol have long complained that it was based on flawed research, that clinicians prescribe blockers as a way of pausing puberty when in fact they cause irreversible physical changes, and that data on their long-term effects is at best patchy and at worst shows that they cause more problems than they...
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Geert Wilders: Netherlands ‘Europe’s fool’ for taking too many Ukrainian refugees
Geert Wilders, the anti-immigration party leader in pole position to be the next Dutch prime minister, said on Monday that the Netherlands was “Europe’s fool” for accepting too many Ukrainian refugees. The hard-Right nationalist won a shock landslide victory in the Dutch general election three months ago but has so far failed to form a...