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Police in the Netherlands and 13 other European countries on Tuesday launched a series of raids against an online film pirating network, closing down 48 websites, according to media reports.
A new right-wing government will raise the national speed limit to 130 kph, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday.
The immigration services has cancelled or withdrawn residency permits for 450 asylum seekers who made fraudulent applications under the 2007 amnesty, caretaker justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin has told MPs.
Cultural heritage groups, including one which has queen Beatrix as its patron, have made formal protests about royal family plans to demolish two farms on their property in Wassenaar.
The Netherlands' 12 psychiatric prison units - tbs clinics - are planning to give some prisoners leave after as little as 18 months of treatment, the AD reports on Wednesday, quoting confidential documents.
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Two early goals from Klaas Jan Huntelaar gave the Netherlands a 2-1 victory over Finland in their second European Cup qualifier on Tuesday night.
Queen Beatrix has ignored the wishes of the three right-wing party leaders and appointed Herman Tjeenk Willink, deputy president of the government's most senior advisory body the Council of State, to lead a 'short intermediate' round of coalition talks.
Dutch clothing chain C&A has always traded on its bargain prices. But the bargains come at a hidden cost: the risk of appalling working conditions for the people who make the clothes.
Network Europe - 7 September 2010
- United States of Europe?... Barrosso makes a State of the Union address.
- Roaming up the agenda... will Brussels tell France it was wrong to expel Roma?
- Also on the programme - France on general strike again... this time to protest pension changes.
- And wine-making the old fashioned way... is the past the way forward for the industry?
More at Euranet.eu
Dutch troops in Iraq ignored agreements between The Hague and London aimed at presenting their forces as non-occupying coalition partners and peacekeepers, according to Dutch historian Arthur ten Cate.
Mr Ten Cate says it would be going too far to call it mutiny, but rather there was a “pragmatic attitude” on the part of the Dutch high command in Iraq, according to a report in daily De Pers.
Foreign tourists and business visitors spent €4bn on holidays in the Netherlands last year, the tourism board NBTC said on Tuesday, news agency Novum reports.
Attempts to form a new government in the Netherlands, three months after the general election, are turning into a farce, Alexander Pechtold, leader of the Liberal democratic party D66 told a parliamentary debate on Tuesday afternoon.
RNW Classical is happy to present the following list of ensembles and soloists, of whom recordings are being played on our programmes. Be sure to check out the musical linkpages too, to discover other worthwhile music on the web.
Dutch ensembles and soloists
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
Groot Omroepkoor
European companies doing business with Iran are being hit by the toughening of sanctions against the government in Tehran. EU firms feel at a disadvantage compared for example to United States concerns, because the new European rules governing trade with Iran go further than those implemented by the United Nations.
Marloes Bosboom, of the Netherlands Centre for the Promotion of Trade (NCH), says Dutch firms will be badly hit. Companies attending a NCH meeting on the issue earlier this month were pessimistic.
With public purchasing power on the rise, Ethiopia's small-but-emerging middle class yearns to cruise around Addis Ababa in style. But it has to be affordable. Holland Car, a Dutch-funded company, invests in assembled models. A simple, but quite unique solution on the African continent.
The supply of new models assembled in Ethiopia is increasing and this is reflected in the streets of the capital city. More and more "Ethiopian" cars are seen among the chaotic traffic, still dominated by rundown Lada cabs and Toyota Corollas.
Anti-Islam party leader Geert Wilders wants to resume talks on forming a right-wing coalition with the VVD Liberals and Christian Democrats, Nos tv reports on Tuesday.
Philips has sold its remaining equity stake in chip maker NXP to its UK pension fund, the electronics giant announced on Tuesday.
The former shareholders of energy company Essent - a number of local and provincial councils - have told the environment ministry they are beginning procedures to build a new nuclear power station in the Netherlands, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Tuesday.
Councillors in the five Dutch candidate World Cup host cities are only willing to support the joint Dutch Belgian bid if the government gives a cast iron guarantee on costs, Nos tv reports.
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