Slaughterhouses and meat processing firms will be banned from using temporary agency staff from mid-2028, government sources ...

Euthanasia accounted for nearly 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2024, up from 1.9% of deaths in 1999, according to new research commissioned by the health ministry. The report was put together ...

Three-quarters of the country took a summer holiday in 2025, according to research by the Dutch statistics office CBS. Figures from the CBS Holiday Survey show that, between April and October, 10.8 ...

One of the last independent breweries in the Netherlands, Limburg-based Gulpener, has been taken over by Grolsch, the companies announced in a statement. “The beer market has changed a lot in recent ...

Hundreds of people convicted of serious crimes, including murder, rape and child abuse, have been given shorter sentences because their cases took too long to complete, according to research by RTL ...

The government intends to do away with the large voting ballots, in favour of something smaller and easier to understand.

Dutch house prices will rise by 3% this year and 4% in 2027 as higher mortgage rates are limiting what buyers can borrow, ABN ...

The Netherlands is in for a dry and largely sunny weekend, with temperatures climbing to 27° or 28° in the southeast on ...

Around 480 more people died than expected during last week’s heatwave, according to a first estimate from the public health ...

Dutch activists who joined an aid flotilla to Gaza say they will file criminal complaints alleging sexual violence by Israeli ...

More than 100 Dutch girls and young women are thought to have been forced to work as prostitutes in Belgium and Germany in ...

A hospital in Veldhoven had to be specially converted to meet the needs of a woman who delivered four identical boys. Máxima ...