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The Belastingdienst logo on a window
Business
Dutch Supreme Court: No Box 3 refunds for taxpayers who failed to file timely objections
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Aerial view of Rotterdam from the Laurenskwartier. 28 May 2026
Politics
PRO, VVD, D66, Volt, and CDA strike deal to govern Rotterdam
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Construction workers
Politics
Dutch government weighs cuts to infrastructure spending amid multibillion-euro shortfall
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Contraception pill
HealthPolitics
Dutch MP's wants to prosecute influencers for misinformation on contraceptives, STIs
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Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema submits her vote in the Municipal Elections, March 18, 2026.
Politics
Amsterdam tells city stats agency to stop polling voter sentiment, election forecasts
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D66 Senator Paul van Meenen congratulates VVD MP Bente Becker and hands a bouquet to D66 MP Wieke Paulusma after the Eerste Kamer approved a ban on gay conversion therapy. 16 June 2026
Politics
Netherlands bans gay conversion therapy after Senate majority backs new law
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Dilan Yesilgoz reacting to Esther Ouwehands (PvdD) who was asking critical questions about the VVD during a parliamentary debate on the stalled Cabinet formation talks, 14 February 2024
Politics
Trust in VVD leader Yeşilgöz drops from 76% to 55% as half of voters want new leadership
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The Stopera, the city hall, in Amsterdam
Politics
New Amsterdam executive team sworn in after council backs PRO–D66 coalition deal
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The western part of the remnant of the medieval city wall at Tolhuiswal in Tiel, Netherlands.
CrimePolitics
All five aldermen resign from Tiel council amid allegations of criminal activities
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Man smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer
Politics
Generational smoking ban won't work in Netherlands, Health Min. says
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Girl uses a phone
Politics
Dutch gov’t against national age limit on social media; Prefers EU regulation
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Sunset with the blue hour in Katwijk aan Zee with walking path from the dunes to the boulevard, 11 June 2022
Business
Katwijk demands state funding for roads before approving pharmaceutical megafactory
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Rainbow flags hanging from windows in Amsterdam
Politics
Majority in Dutch Senate supports ban on gay conversion therapy
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BBB Senator Henk Marquart Scholtz announces his party will no longer vote to criminalize pushing people, including children, into gay conversion therapy. 2 June 2026
Politics
BBB Senate faction opposes conversion therapy ban despite earlier support
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Baby sleeping on dad's chest
PoliticsCultureLifestyle
Stop automatically giving babies the father’s surname: Majority of MP’s
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PRO Senator Paul Rosenmöller shakes Prime Minister Rob Jetten's hand after receving majority support for his motion to scrap the Cabinet's plans to increase state pension age more rapidly. Deputy Prime Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz is next to Jetten, smiling at the camera. 7 April 2026
PoliticsBusinessCultureLifestyle
First 100 days of PM Jetten’s Cabinet marked by limits to minority coalition
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Artificial insemination
Health
Majority of MP's support independent investigation into fertility clinics, mass donors
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Medical Care Minister Bruno Bruins tells the Tweede Kamer he is alright moments after collapsing from exhaustion. 18 March 2020
HealthPolitics
Dutch parliament to question virologist, fmr. Healthcare Min. today in Covid inquiry
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Domestic violence.
Crime1-1-2
Netherlands working on new law to allow women to check partner’s police record
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Fatou Bensouda, former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, during a conference about international crimes in West Africa, which took place at Dakar (Senegal) in October 2021
CrimePolitics
ICC prosecutor says Dutch gov't did nothing when Israel intimidated her in The Hague
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
Politics
Netherlands adopts EU migration pact’s strict asylum rules; Senate wants June 12 start
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A forest ranger.
Crime1-1-2Politics
Dutch Parliament wants to better arm forest rangers
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Gidi Markuszower during a debate 9 Feb 2023 about Dutch women who went to Syria to join sides during the civil war, and whether they should lose their citizenship
Politics
MP defends remarks on Palestinians, says tone was wrong amid political backlash
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Insiya Hemani, kidnapped from Amsterdam in September 2016
Politics
Dutch MEP's reach out to parliament in India to get kidnapped Amsterdam girl back