Source: Morocco World News: HAGUE – The Dutch opposition suggests an amendment to a law that bans offensive speaking against religion. Dutch legislators are discussing whether or not to change a law that bans offensive speaking against religion as senators in the upper house of the Dutch parliament opposed the plan to amend […]
Robert Fisk investigates an alleged double standard over two prominent Libyans accused of crimes against humanity There’s a spot of skulduggery going on in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Not to put too fine a point upon it, a lot of questions are being asked about why […]
Albawaba: A Dutch politician, Arnoud Van Doorn, who was once a harsh critic of Islam and had taken part in the production of a highly controversial anti-Islam film (Fitna) , […]
Solar Team Twente has gained the third position in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. Never before the red solar car has gained such a high ranking. One and a half year ago, the team of 16 students from the University of Twente and Saxion High School in the Netherlands […]
The last six Dutch soldiers serving with the police training mission in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan have returned to the Netherlands, the defence ministry has confirmed. The six were involved in running the German military camp outside Kunduz city which was handed over to the Afghans at the beginning of […]
The Dutch government is taking another important step toward sustainable economic growth. Efforts to bring about robust public finances and a fair distribution of income are an inseparable part of this process. This is the main message of the Budget Memorandum that Minister of Finance Jeroen Dijsselbloem presented to the […]
Huff Post: A Christian school in the Netherlands, Pieter Zandt Scholengemeenschap, was horrified to find an allegedly satanic symbol in its latest student agenda, asking parents and students to return the planners for shredding. That symbol? A peace sign. School board chairman Johan van Puten told Dutch newspaper Trouw that a Google search revealed […]
An Asian app-developer, creative designer or instrument maker wanting to set up their business in the Netherlands will soon have easier access to the Dutch market. As of 1 August 2013, the Ministry of Economic Affairs will ease regulations for entrepreneurs outside of the European Union who wish to start […]
According to the first estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands, the Dutch economy shrank 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter. This is the fourth quarter in a row showing economic decline, although with each quarter the decline became less severe. The economy contracted 1.8 […]
Prince Johan Friso, the second son of Crown Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus, has died at the age of 44. The Prince had been in a coma since a skiing accident in Austria in February 2012. As a child, Friso had already made up his mind he didn’t want to […]
By ERIC SCHMITT The New York Times July 27, 2013 WASHINGTON — A rising number of radicalized young Muslims with Western passports are traveling to Syria to fight with the rebels against the government of Bashar al-Assad, raising fears among American and European intelligence officials of a new terrorist threat […]
The Netherlands is the eighth happiest country in the world. For the third year in a row, Australia has taken the top prize for being the happiest place to live in the advanced world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD)Better Life […]
The combined debt of the Netherlands’ 500 or so local councils, provincial governments and water boards reached more than €70bn by the first quarter of this year, according to new figures from the national statistics office CBS. This is a rise of 40% over seven years, the CBS said. The […]
Large reserves of gas and oil have been found under the most northerly parts of the Dutch reaches of the North Sea, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday. The discovery comes after nearly three years of seismic research carried out on behalf of state-owned energy company Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN). Read […]
Many young Dutch Muslims are attracted to the fundamentalist Salafi movement. Anthropologist Ineke Roex has been researching the attitudes of the movement’s followers to democracy. “Accept them as part of Dutch society, and then they become more democratic.” Michel Hoebink Salafists condemn the idea of democracy in principle, explains Roex. […]
Yves Kugelmann says ‘it’s a matter of fact’ that a Dutch institution is again trying to seize the family’s possessions STEVE ANDERSON THE INDPENDENT UK A bitter row between two […]
MIKE CORDER | AP ARABNEWS Tuesday 30 April 2013 AMSTERDAM: King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century Tuesday as his mother Beatrix abdicated to […]
JEDDAH: NASIM CHOWDHURY ARABNEWS Thursday 25 April 2013 In the early days of Islam, Omar, who would later become a caliph, was in a frenzied rage and set out to […]
International Women’s Day is being observed around the world. For more than 100 years, March 8th has been a day to take note of the position of women in society and to celebrate their achiements. RNW’s Arab department marks the day with portraits of […]
AFP | Apr 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES LONDON — As many as 600 Europeans have joined the rebels fighting government forces in Syria, according to a British study. Jihadists from 14 European countries including France, Germany, Britain and the Netherlands are among those to enter the conflict, according to […]