Femke Wiersma

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Goat
Health
Residents around goat farms at higher risk of pneumonia, killing up to 100 per year
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Cows in a barn
HealthPoliticsBusiness
No foot-and-mouth disease found in cattle imported from Brandenburg
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Femke Wiersma
Health
Transport ban imposed on calves amid German foot-and-mouth outbreak
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Femke Wiersma
Politics
Agriculture Minister wins animal rights organization's "biggest liar of 2024" award
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Chickens
Business
Poultry throughout Netherlands ordered caged after bird flu outbreak
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Cows in a barn
Business
Agriculture giants snatching up farms out from under gov't buyout scheme: report
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Wind turbines seen through the smoke and chimneys of oil refinery Pernis in Rotterdam
Politics
Dutch coalition gov’t faltering yet again, this time over climate policy
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A flock of sheep
HealthNature
New bluetongue variant continues to spread in the Netherlands
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PVV politician Marjolein Faber during hearings on her candidacy for minister of asylum and immigration. 24 June 2024
Politics
Cabinet minister expects asylum seeker distribution law to remain for up to 2 years
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Dick Schoof
Politics
Schoof I Cabinet presenting government agreement after long, tumultous negotiations
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Elk and deer in the Oostvaardersplassens nature reserve in Flevoland. July 2020
PoliticsTechNature
New Cabinet scraps national nature restoration plan, nitrogen emissions policy
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Seasonal workers harvesting asparagus on a farm in Lottum, Horst aan de Maas, Limburg. 19 June 2021
PoliticsBusiness
European Commission approves compensation scheme to buyout farmers
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PVV leader Geert Wilders campaigning in The Hague
Politics
Schoof I Cabinet taking shape; Wilders meets with far-right leaders over EU cooperation