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Ministers have revised their plans to build nine small offshore wind
farms and will focus instead on three main sites closer to the coast.
The immigration authority will look into the case of an Afghan man who
acted as an intepreter for the Dutch army but is threatened with
deportation after all, junior justice minister Fred Teeven said on
Friday.
The number of people requesting asylum in the Netherlands in the first
six months of the year is almost twice the 2013 figure, junior justice
minister Fred Teeven said on Friday.
Burglar calls the police to liberate him from Alkmaar buildingA burglar who broke into a building in Alkmaar in the early hours of Friday morning ended up calling the police because he could not work out how to leave, local broadcaster RTV NH said on Friday. Eye museum to show Hitchcock's concentration camp documentary A documentary worked on by Alfred Hitchcock and composed almost entirely of footage shot by allied army cameramen in 1945 will be shown at the Eye film museum on Sunday evening. Cycle shops lobby against end of Dutch company bike scheme Bicycle shops have started a campaign to keep the tax break that cyclists get if they have a company bike, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. Dutch growers stop giving boycott fruit and veg to food banks Dutch markeg gardeners are giving very little in the way of surplus fruit and vegetables to food banks despite the impact of the Russian boycott, BNR radio said on Friday. A warm but not too sunny weekend ahead The temperature could be as high as 23 Celsius in places on Sunday, online weather bureau weerplaza says on Friday. Utrecht's mayor angry over being sidelined during deportation Utrecht’s mayor Jan van Zanen is angry at the way a Somali man has been removed from a refugee centre in the city without his involvement. Dutch roads to get even more road signs Dutch roads will have 14 new traffic signs next year which transport minister Melanie Schultz hopes will clarify the situation on some roads. KPN revises 'women first' policy to focus on ethnic minorities Telecoms company KPN has dropped its policy of giving women priority in top jobs and is to focus more on staff from a minority background, jobs market magazine Intermediair says on Friday. Dutch prime minister tells UN of pain caused by MH17 disaster Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has addressed the United Nations general assembly in New York and spoken of the pain caused by the loss of Malaysian Airways flight MH17. Big four accountants under fire in Holland for poor audit work Finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has pledged to get tough on the big four accountancy firms after a damning report from the financial services regulator. Man faces jail if he writes more than two council complaints a month A man from Dordrecht has been told he will be jailed if he writes more than two letters of complaint to the city council a month. Labour party backtracks on Afghan interpreter debate Parliament will debate the pending deportation of an Afghan interpreter for the Dutch army after all, now the Labour party has had a change of heart. The Dutch are to send jet fighters to Iraq: What the papers say The Netherlands has committed to sending six F-16 jet fighters to the counter-Islamic State mission in Iraq. Some Dutch papers think the decision is half-hearted and contrived. Dutch TV group Talpa takes Utopia to China Dutch television production house Talpa has signed a deal with Chinese internet giant Tencent to develop Chinese versions of popular reality shows such as Utopia, the Financieele Dagblad says on Thursday. Dutch waste processor Van Gansewinkel up for sale Private equity firms CVC and KKR have put their Dutch waste processing company Van Gansewinkel up for sale and are hoping for a deal by the end of this year, the Financieele Dagblad says on Thursday. Go Ahead Eagles put Feyenoord out of the KNVB Cup Go Ahead Eagles put struggling Feyenoord out of the KNVB Cup on Wednesday night with a simple 2-0 victory. Dutch schoolgirl takes Prada catwalk by storm, but is she too young? Questions are being asked about the inclusion of a 14-year-old Dutch schoolgirl in the recent Prada fashion show in Milan, with critics saying her appearance undermines efforts to stop young girls being exploited. Many late night cyclists break 'drunk in charge of a bike' rules Cyclists are flouting laws banning them from cycling under the influence of alcohol on a massive scale, researchers at Groningen University have found. Children's ombudsman welcomes asylum rethink, still wants answers Children’s ombudsman Marc Dullaert has welcomed the decision by junior justice minister Fred Teeven to give asylum to up to 75 families threatened with deportation because they did not qualify for the amnesty for child refugees. Exhibition centre set up as temporary home for 400 refugees The IJsselhallen exhibition centre in Zwolle has been turned into temporary accommodation for 400 asylum seekers as an emergency measure. Dutch to send six fighter jets to Iraq, no military role in Syria Dutch MPs have given broad support to the government’s decision to send six F-16 fighter jets to take part in anti-Islamic State bombing in Iraq, describing the Netherlands’ contribution as ‘substantial’. Dutch patients do not have ebola A Dutch doctor and a man from Eindhoven who have been under observation in hospitals in Leiden and Nijmegen do not have ebola, the public health institute RIVM said on Wednesday. 80 arrests in the Netherlands as Europol cracks down on crime gangs Some 80 people have been arrested in the Netherlands as part of a massive Europe-wide crackdown on organised crime, EU police organisation Europol said on Wednesday. |
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