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The King's Day crowd gathers ahead of King Willem-Alexander's visit to Emmen, Drenthe. 27 April 2024
Health
Dutch population now tops 18.13 million thanks to immigration; Growth slows for 3rd year
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The King's Day crowd gathers ahead of King Willem-Alexander's visit to Emmen, Drenthe. 27 April 2024
Health
Dutch population growth slowing down as European immigration declines
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A crowded shopping street in Amsterdam
Politics
Netherlands residents' trust in politics historically low
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Flags of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
Politics
Migration between the Netherlands and the UK has dropped sharply since Brexit
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Frans Timmermans
Politics
GroenLinks-PvdA’s Timmermans eyes premiership if left forms government
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Housing construction in Urk, March 2020
Politics
Most Dutch support limiting people's options to object to housing construction
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PVV leader Geert Wilders campaigning in The Hague
CrimePoliticsBusiness
PVV and JA21 unveil election programs, both push hardline migration policies
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Frans Timmermans
Politics
GroenLinks-PvdA push housing, cheap public transport in election program
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Crowded Leidsestraat in Amsterdam
Health
More deaths than births: Natural population growth in Netherlands increasingly negative
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A billboard in Amsterdam showing campaign posters for the European Parliament elections on 6 June 2024
Politics
Housing, health, asylum still Dutch voters' main concerns; Defense rising on list
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A school of European Perch swim past a Fish Doorbell camera in the Weerdsluis in Utrecht. 7 June 2023
TechNature
Utrecht's fish doorbell closes after record year
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Koninklijke Marechaussee
Politics
Border controls not resulting in fewer asylum seekers: Court of Audit
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PVV leader Geert Wilders tells reporters the Cabinet could fold if the coalition parties do not bend to his asylum demands. The coalition parties think Wilders already has the ability to introduce policy himself. 2 June 2025
Politics
Dutch Cabinet collapses: Wilders pulls out of coalition after his PVV stalls asylum policy
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PVV leader Geert Wilders tells reporters the Cabinet could fold if the coalition parties do not bend to his asylum demands. The coalition parties think Wilders already has the ability to introduce policy himself. 2 June 2025
Politics
Cabinet crisis: Wilders not optimistic after latest asylum talks with coalition
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PVV leader Geert Wilders during the Tweede Kamer debate on the new PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB coalition, 22 May 2024
Politics
Wilders again threatens to topple government over asylum policy
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A crowded Leidsestraat in Amsterdam
Health
Dutch population still growing solely through migration
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Amsterdam UMC
HealthTechScienceCultureLifestyleFood
Migration alters gut microbiome, raising cardiovascular risk, study finds
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Reinette Klever during the Transfer from Foreign Affairs on July 2, 2024
Politics
Dutch gov't taking "Netherlands first" approach with development aid
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Official sign on the Dutch-German border
Politics
Netherlands starts six months of extra border controls
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A 3D rendering of the European Union and Dutch flags
Politics
Almost half of Dutch people are optimistic about the European Union
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Prime Minister Dick Schoof during the second day of the Budget Debate in the Tweede Kamer, 19 September 2024
Politics
Tensions rising for Schoof Cabinet as coalition parties squabble on multiple topics
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GroenLinks-PvdA leader Frans Timmermans speaking in the first parliamentary debate with the Schoof I Cabinet, 3 July 2024
Politics
EU says Dutch asylum opt-out won't happen soon; Timmermans pushes foreign student cuts
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King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Amalia are greeted as they walk from the Glass Carriage to the Schouwburg to deliver the Prinsjesdag Speech from the Throne. 17 September 2024
PoliticsBusiness
Full text of King Willem-Alexander's Prinsjesdag 2024 speech in English
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King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima during the King's Budget Day speech in the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague, 17 September 2024
Politics
Grip on migration, simplified procedures Dutch gov't priorities next year: King's Speech