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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Eurovision: can we send real musicians next year?

The Common Linnets representing the Netherlands perform during the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Grand Final in Copenhagen  
Eurovision Dutch entry showed the way forward, says Neil McCormick
12 May 2014
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Geert Wilders on 'slippery slope', Jewish group states

Geert Wilders (right) with Marine Le Pen last year  
Dutch Jewish group attacks Geert Wilders for building alliances with far-Right-wing parties such as Marine Le Pen's Front National
07 May 2014

What would a Ukip far-Right Eurosceptic bloc look like?

Based on current opinion polls, Geert Wilders can expect to form a political group, the “European Freedom Alliance”, with 38 MEPs from seven countries  
Dutch far-Right leader Geert Wilders predicts Ukip will join with his party to create the European Parliament's third-biggest bloc. We explain what would happen if he is correct
05 May 2014

Geert Wilders: I respect Nigel Farage a lot

Based on current opinion polls, Geert Wilders can expect to form a political group, the “European Freedom Alliance”, with 38 MEPs from seven countries  
Video Dutch far-Right leader Geert Wilders predicts Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen will join with his party to create the European Parliament's third-biggest bloc
05 May 2014

Geert Wilders: Ukip to join our far-Right bloc in EU

Geert Wilders told the Telegraph that he expects Nigel Farage to ditch a promise never to work with the French National Front after Ukip’s expected successes in European elections later this month  
Ukip is expected to overcome its distaste for Marine Le Pen and will work with a new far-Right Eurosceptic alliance after EU elections, Geert Wilders tells the Telegraph
05 May 2014

Boats cause King's Day traffic jam

Timelapse footage shows canal boats blocking the waterways of Amsterdam, as revellers make their way to the city centre to celebrate the annual King's Day
28 Apr 2014
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Are floating houses in Britain's future?

Architecture What water-logged Holland can teach us about flooding. By Will Storr
26 Apr 2014
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Dutch reporter falls into sea during interview

This is the moment Martje Oesterholt, a Dutch television presenter, falls into the harbour whilst trying to conduct an interview with the mayor of Kampen on board a boat
14 Apr 2014

Secret Service agents sent home for bad behaviour in Amsterdam

One agent was discovered highly intoxicated by staff at a hotel, who reported it to the US Embassy
26 Mar 2014

MEPs must investigate this child-snatching scandal

Social workers who take away children is one of the most disturbing human-rights scandals of our time, says Christopher Booker
22 Mar 2014

Girl With A Pearl Earring goes home

Art The Mauritshuis gallery in the Netherlands is to reopen with Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring as the star attraction
28 Feb 2014
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Woman avoids being hit by train

CCTV footage shows a woman narrowly avoiding being struck by a train in the Netherlands
27 Feb 2014

Quest for the sunken slave ship which claimed 664 lives

Experts believe they are close to locating the final resting place of a slave ship which sank in what has been described as the biggest single tragedy of the Atlantic slave trade
23 Feb 2014
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Dutch euthanasia minister found dead in garage 'likely killed'

Police begin murder investigation into the death of a Dutch politician credited with drafting the country's euthanasia laws
13 Feb 2014

Dutch would be 'better off' if they left the euro

There are big economic benefits for the Dutch in leaving the euro and the EU, finds a major study
06 Feb 2014
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WW2 bomb explodes on Dutch beach

A World War Two sea mine is detonated on a beach in the Netherlands, sending plumes of smoke high into the air as it explodes
01 Feb 2014

Ratko Mladic walks out of Radovan Karadzic war crimes trial

Ratko Mladic turns trial into farce by refusing to testify and demanding his dentures
28 Jan 2014

Mars mission selection 'to be reality TV show'

TV Mars One chooses its 1,508 candidates for the one-way trip to Mars and plan to make selection for final 40 wannabe astronauts a reality TV show
02 Jan 2014
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Two men mixed at birth meet 60 years later

Sixty years after they were born in the same maternity ward, two Dutch men discover they were mixed up and their mothers had each taken home the wrong baby
03 Dec 2013

OECD education report: Dutch system puts premium on quality standards

A focus on ensuring the quality of a school’s performance combined with teaching methods that rely on practice and a practical engagement with the imagination of children are behind Dutch educational success
03 Dec 2013
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OECD education report: case study Netherlands

Simon Brooks, 48, mathematics teacher at the International School of The Hague, believes Dutch students are industrious from an early age
03 Dec 2013
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S&P strips Netherlands of AAA rating

Downgrade of Netherlands leaves just three eurozone countries with triple-A ratings from Standard & Poor's
29 Nov 2013
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Wreck of missing Lancaster bomber found

The wreckage of a wartime Lancaster bomber shot down on a raid over occupied Europe is discovered on farmland in Holland
24 Nov 2013
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Royal surprise for a Dutch master plantsman

Piet Oudolf, creator of the High Line in New York and many other influential gardens, received the annual Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation Award in Amsterdam last week. Tim Richardson was happy to help
24 Nov 2013

Dutch 'Black Pete' Christmas custom sparks protests

Sinterklaas, the Dutch version of Father Christmas and his blacked-up helpers Zwarte Pieten, or Black Peters, arrive in Amsterdam amid protests claiming the tradition is racist
17 Nov 2013
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