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21/11/2025

The Dutch Digitalization Strategy (NDS) is estimated to cost around 950 million euros, according to a preliminary government assessment, though officials caution that the figure contains substantial uncertainties and lacks confirmed funding.

21/11/2025

Absenteeism at work increased to 5 percent in October, up from 4.7 percent in September. Compared with 4.9 percent in October of last year, this marks a small rise, according to data from ArboNed and HumanCapitalCare, which collectively serve almost 1 million workers.The number of sickness reports h...

21/11/2025

The animal police seized 23 neglected dogs on Wednesday that were living “in appalling conditions” in an apartment in central Amsterdam, the police reported Thursday. The Singel apartment was extremely filthy. Several of the dogs, which police say are toy poodles, were covered in excrement, and ...

21/11/2025

The Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, seems to be deadlocked over an alternative to next year’s tax hike affecting investors and savers. Although several proposals have been put forward, none currently have sufficient backing.VVD MP Wendy van Eijk summed up the situation during a ...

21/11/2025

Three suspects have been arrested after a train was evacuated due to a report of a bomb, according to RTL Nieuws. Train traffic near Hilversum has been halted after a “suspicious situation” was reported to police.

21/11/2025

Violence against mosques in the Netherlands has nearly doubled over the past decade, according to a new report from K9, a network of Dutch mosque organizations. Between 2015 and 2025, K9 documented 369 incidents, compared with 192 in the previous ten years.

21/11/2025

Groups representing tenants and housing corporations are calling for regulations to cap rent hikes. They propose that rents for social housing managed by corporations increase by no more than 4 percent per year. Both housing association Aedes and tenant organization Woonbond say this limit should be...

21/11/2025

In a case brought by a temporary worker seeking a permanent contract, the Supreme Court has ruled that employing someone on a temporary basis for 13 years in a row is too long. The worker had repeatedly asked for a permanent contract, which the employer denied. According to the court, a company’s ...

21/11/2025

A motorist in Hoogersmilde, Drenthe, got quite a surprise on Thursday night. She was driving through the dark forest when she felt like she had hit something. When she went to investigate, she saw a small fox wedged between the grille and the bumper of her car, the local Animal Ambulance reported on...

21/11/2025

Traffic fines and how much they increase after every reminder are no longer proportional to the severity of the offense, said Albert Hazelhoff, the head of Dutch government's collection agency CJIB. In a response to Hazelhoff's comments to the Leeuwaarder Courant, Caretaker Minister Foort van Oosten...

21/11/2025

The government plans to assess what it would mean should Solvinity, a key player behind DigiD services, be purchased by an American company. According to the Authority for Consumers and Markets, the U.S. firm Kyndryl is close to finalizing its acquisition of Solvinity.

21/11/2025

Dutch insurers reported a sharp increase in insurance fraud in 2024, detecting more than 9,000 cases, over a thousand more than in 2023, according to the Centrum Bestrijding Verzekeringscriminaliteit (Center for the Suppression of Insurance Crime) of the Verbond van Verzekeraars (Dutch Association o...

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