Netherlands

EU may be finally approaching ‘point of departure’ on Gaza war

Iran war threatens to stall growing support within EU for action against Israel, as foreign ministers meet in Brussels

‘Amsterdam is a whole lot easier to get around than Dublin ... You get a much better quality of life here’

Wild Geese: Eoin Blunnie is an orchestral composer who works in e-sports

Women’s Prize for Fiction winner on The Safekeep, being intersex and her childhood in Israel

Yael van der Wouden on her experience of being intersex, her opposition to the Israeli government and winning the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Smooth Company’s Áine Kennedy: ‘My screen time is outrageous. I don’t have a work-life balance at the moment’

Dublin-based entrepreneur on the bootstrapping of her TikTok sensation company and learning to back yourself against bigger fish

Ratko Mladic: ‘Terminally ill’ Bosnian Serb general serving life for genocide seeks release

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ convicted in 2017 of extermination and murder over 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica

Scientists develop new way to detect deepfake videos

Technique utilises image analysis to identify variations in skin tone created by human pulse that are absent in bogus footage

Dutch voters welcome collapse of right-wing coalition, according to poll

Country facing autumn elections after Geert Wilders pulled his Freedom Party out of government

Geert Wilders gambles on election at the risk of losing political allies

Far-right leader, who brought down the Dutch government on Tuesday, may struggle to get another taste of power

EU cannot ignore what’s happening in Poland and The Netherlands

Fundamental change is not merely possible or probable; it is becoming an existential necessity

The Irish Times view on the Dutch government’s collapse: not unexpected

The Netherlands, like much of Europe, faces a fracturing political landscape

Geert Wilders pulls party from Netherlands government

Freedom Party leader says coalition partners are not willing to embrace his ideas on halting asylum migration

Geert Wilders threatens to pull party out of Dutch government over immigration reforms

Freedom Party minister wants to enact plan to cut €3.5 billion from the immigration and asylum budget

Ryanair quietly drops carbon offset option for passengers on its flights

Carbon calculator for flight emissions also withdrawn as airline says ‘there was very little interest or uptake from passengers’ 

Bodies of Dutch children taken by father recovered from submerged car

Police in the Netherlands had issued amber alert for the family, with fears they had crossed German border

Netherlands will undertake huge security operation during Nato summit

Largest logistical operation ever mounted by the country during peacetime will have significant input from Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain

Netherlands backs calls for review of EU-Israel agreement

Israel aid blockage worsening ‘dire humanitarian situation’ in Gaza, Dutch minister tells EU foreign chief

Irish voters want to support Ukraine but not get involved militarily

Ipsos B&A survey in 29 countries finds that voters worry doing nothing in Ukraine will encourage Russia to take further military action in Europe and Asia

Dutch government summons Iranian ambassador after claims Tehran behind attempted murders

Netherlands’ intelligence agency points finger at Iran for attempts to kill activist and Spanish former MEP

Two prized ‘Rembrandts’ were painted by someone else, reveals Dutch museum

Art ‘detectives’ suspect works were painted by students

The liberation of Bergen-Belsen: ‘Hello, hello. You are free’

Concentration camp where Anne Frank, her sister Margot and some 70,000 others died stands as a warning for the future

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