Netherlands: Blasphemy law will be scrapped
Tuesday 03 December 2013 DutchNews.nl Blasphemy will be removed from the statute books following a majority vote in the upper house of parliament on Tuesday. However, a second motion was […]
The Netherlands to Immigrants: Learn Dutch or Leave
WATCH VIDEO REPORT HERE: The Video seems to cover a Pakistani Ahmadi-Muslim Family in the Netherlands. France’s face veil ban is just the latest controversial law aimed at assimilating new immigrants in Europe. The Netherlands now requires Dutch fluency to become a citizen Read more: The Netherlands to Immigrants: Learn […]
Dutch legislators discuss law banning religious offences
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 […]
Is The Hague making a mockery of justice so the CIA and MI6 can save face?
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 […]
Former anti-Islam film producer turned Muslim made pilgrim to Hajj
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 finishes highest position ever in World Solar Challenge
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 […]
Last six Dutch soldiers leave Kunduz, Afghanistan
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 […]
Dutch Budget for 2014 Brings Prospect of Sustainable Economic Recovery
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 […]
Peace Sign Satanic?
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 […]
Easier for non-EU professionals to set up business in the Netherlands
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 […]
Dutch economy shrinks by 1.8 percent
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 […]
The Prince who never wanted to be king
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 […]
Worries Mount as Syria Lures West’s Muslims
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 […]
Netherlands ranked among top 10 happiest countries in the world
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 […]
Dutch local councils have debts of more than €70bn
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 found under North Sea
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 […]
Salafism and Dutch democracy
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. […]
Swiss-based Anne Frank Fund compares rival Dutch Foundation to Nazis in bitter dispute over family archive
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 […]
Willem-Alexander becomes new Dutch king
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 […]
Why ex-Islamophobe embraced Islam
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 […]
