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26 april 2012

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This week’s roundup of what’s been making headlines in the Netherlands begins with the news that Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte handed in his Cabinet’s resignation to Queen Beatrix. Rutte’s minority coalition government ...

22 maart 2012

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This week’s roundup of what’s been making headlines in the Netherlands begins with the news that following a deadly attack on a Jewish school in France, Amsterdam’s Jewish secondary school Maimonides, primary school Rosh Pina and ...

16 februari 2012

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This week’s roundup of what’s been making news in the Netherlands begins with a Green Party proposal to not sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), aimed at combating internet piracy, which has garnered the support of ...

12 januari 2012

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This week’s roundup of what’s been making news in the Netherlands begins with the discovery of a huge new gas field near Ee, a town in Friesland. The field is estimated to contain 4 billion cubic metres of natural gas - enough ...

24 november 2011

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This week’s roundup of what’s been making news in the Netherlands begins with continuing saga of what some are calling the biggest case of academic fraud in history. Dutch professor of social-psychology, Diederik Stapel, published ...

14 september 2011

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This week’s roundup of what’s been making news in the Netherlands begins with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte calling for ‘the ultimate sanction in future’ against profligate EU countries like Greece, “to force countries to ...