Amsterdam city council’s marketing arm Amsterdam&Partners is continuing to fund press trips to the city, despite official pledges to cut back on tourism. In 2025, Amsterdam&Partners organised 22 group ...

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Public prosecutors want to seize €8 million from Dutch former international footballer Quincy Promes, money they say he earned smuggling cocaine, broadcaster NOS has reported. An Amsterdam court ...

This spring will be one of the five warmest since records began in the Netherlands in 1901, weather forecasters say. This temperature has averaged 11°, over a full degree higher than the long-term ...

Breda-based public transport company GoVolta is planning to launch a €19 ticket to travel from Amsterdam to Paris, owner ...

If the government had acted faster at the outbreak of the coronavirus in March 2020 it would likely have meant fewer deaths ...

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Dutch ministers have spent some €1.8 million on renting private jets over the past five years, according to research by RTL Nieuws. The most expensive flight was a trip by Ruben Brekelmans while ...

Amsterdam city council’s coalition has dropped plans to build a giant erotic centre close to the Zuidas business district, the Parool reported on Friday. The new administration – made up of the PvdA, ...

Over 23,000 permits were granted for new-build homes in the first quarter of 2026, and nearly 14,000 were completed, ...

Arnhem’s mayor Ahmed Marcouch has granted a permit for two concerts by the rapper Ye, formally known as Kanye West, in the city next month, despite a majority of Dutch MPs calling for him to be barred ...

Dozens of pieces in the Dutch royal family’s collection of colonial artefacts were “wrongly obtained” during wars and military campaigns, according to a report presented on Friday. A special ...