Hundreds of people convicted of serious crimes, including murder, rape and child abuse, have been given shorter sentences ...

The government should not have increased traffic fines in 2024, a court in Utrecht ruled on Friday. Dutch authorities raised traffic fines by 10% in 2024, partially due to inflation and partially to ...

All students at vocational schools, colleges and universities are to be given a legal right to payment for their internships, under cabinet plans reported by broadcaster NOS on Friday. The law will ...

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The government is getting it all wrong with its plans to change the Box 3 asset tax system, writes Luke Staden, founder of ...

Euthanasia accounted for nearly 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2024, up from 1.9% of deaths in 1999, according to new ...

One of the last independent breweries in the Netherlands, Limburg-based Gulpener, has been taken over by Grolsch, the ...

Three-quarters of the country took a summer holiday in 2025, according to research by the Dutch statistics office CBS.

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

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

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 ...