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On this week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: Why the spring budget talks will test for the coalition, shock over a stabbing in Schiedam, the rise of part-time couples, and Marjolein Faber marks the anniversary of the war in Ukraine in the only way she knows how. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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Blog: The New World Order is not working out for Geert Wilders wordsforpress.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/t...

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Je zit een kwart eeuw in de TK en weet nog steeds niet dat Nederland geen uitleveringsverdrag heeft met Pakistan. Best pijnlijk.

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PSA: If you received this email from @klm.bsky.social today and you're thinking of coming for King's Day, be aware it's actually on April 26 this year (because the 27th is a Sunday). Given the king is a trained pilot for Royal Dutch Airlines, you'd have thought someone might have checked …

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Mailtje van @klm.bsky.social. Beetje gênant dat de Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij schijnbaar niet weet dat Koningsdag dit jaar op 26 april valt (omdat 27 april zondag is). Er komen vermoedelijk veel vergistoeristen dit jaar.

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Quite startling to listen to Friedrich Merz talk about the Trump regime today. American interest in Europe is waning, he says, and while he still hopes he can persuade the US that they have a mutual interest, Washington's motto is not so much America First as America Alone. This is seismic.

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Opmerkelijk: in @nieuwsuur.nl werd 2x geconstateerd dat de AfD-kiezers "genegeerd" worden als de partij niet meedoet aan de formatie. Terwijl in alle democratieën de vuistregel geldt: de grootste partij leidt de regering, de nummer twee gaat de oppositie in. Bijvoorbeeld in Nederland met GL-PvdA.

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This week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: councils attack the government's immigration rules, Wilders backs down on Ukraine, impressive wins for Dutch clubs in the Champions League, and the king goes off on a majestic dad rant about traffic jams at Schiphol. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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A lot of the commentary in this Elfstedentocht so far is about the correct procedure for getting your card stamped at the checkpoints. It's not so much a race as an open-air bookkeeping exercise on skates. That's probably why the Dutch love it so much. nos.nl/livestream/2...

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It could get up to 18 degrees in parts of NL today. But if you want to escape the torrid heat or remind yourself what winters were like before global warming, @nieuws.nos.nl is livestreaming the 1985 Elfstedentocht, the legendary skating marathon through Friesland. nos.nl/livestream/2...

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History repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, the third as Marjolein Faber's asylum policy. Plus why the UN's special rapporteur was cancelled and the latest chapter of the wolf paintball saga in this week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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Wilders was nooit in coalitie met NSC. Het is een soort omgekeerde gedoogconstructie; zodra hun ondersteuning niet meer bevalt haalt hij de stekker eruit.

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Ik maakte een podcast met de Nederlandse-Roemeense schrijfster Mira Feticu over onze ervaringen van het leven na de dood van onze partners. Onder andere: waarom de rouw isoleert en wat je moet verwachten van een relatie met een weduwe/-naar. soundcloud.com/gordon-darro...

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Imagine being a trained lawyer and not knowing about Marbury v Madison.

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This week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast in case you missed it: crisis in the BBB, face mask bandits are told to pay back €20 million, Brussels tells The Hague to clean up the water supply, and the Dutch are going off meat and potatoes. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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Average time taken to travel to Ter Apel refugee centre from: Georgia – 2 weeks Syria – 4 weeks Eritrea – 5 weeks Iraq – 6 weeks Dutch Ministry of Asylum and Migration, The Hague – 7 months www.nu.nl/politiek/634...

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Three entrepreneurs have been ordered to pay back €20.7 million that they earned from a deal to source face masks and other PPE from China at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Not to the Dutch government, but to a non-profit company they founded. nos.nl/artikel/2554...

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Staggering to think that the Dutch farmers' party BBB took 20% of the vote in the provincial elections less than two years ago. Now they're down to around 3% in the polls, a senior MP has quit and one of their largest provincial parties is breaking up. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/cris...

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Ik vind dit geen helder uitleg. www.ad.nl/politiek/bbb...

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Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof is too ill to attend the European leaders' defence summit this week. Mercifully, EU rules that state Luxembourg's PM Luc Frieden, and not deputy prime minister Fleur Agema, will represent the Netherlands instead. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/dutc...

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Tesla was the best-selling car brand in the Netherlands last year. Now its dealerships are the target of protests against Musk's support for Trump and manipulation of social media. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/tesl...

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In this week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: sharp exchanges over plans to raise VAT, heads roll in Romania over the Drents Museum heist and Feyenoord take a pasting in Lille. Plus: has the VVD election campaign begun, and why are the wolves disappearing? soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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This week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: Another court judgment on nitrogen leaves the government in sticky mud again, beavers and muskrats invade our borders, and Feyenoord backtrack on plans to sack Brian Priske after his team thrashes Bayern Munich. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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A wolf that was found taking a cat-nap in a garden shed has been released back into the wild. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/wolf...

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The state commission set up in the wake of the childcare benefits scandal (toeslagenaffaire) warns similar events will keep happening unless the government rigorously tackles discrimination and racism. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/gove...

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This week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: Geert Wilders is on collision course with the VVD over budget cuts, Ridouan Taghi's lawyer is accuse of passing messages for his drug trafficking empire and PSV narrowly escape a giant-killing in the Dutch cup. t.co/VF7fs6EY55

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New @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: The New Year begins with too many fireworks and too few medicines. The records of 400,000 suspected Nazi collaborators are published, stroopwafels make it into the OED and we reveal the winner of the 2024 Ophef of the Year awards. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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Blog: Hate can never unite us wordsforpress.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/h...

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Quick reminder: you've still got about 24 hours to listen to and vote for the most piffling social media scuffle of 2024 in the Dutch News podcast's inimitable Ophef of the Year awards. The winner will be announced this Friday. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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Koen Schuiling retired a year before the end of his term, claiming he had no energy after dealing with the pandemic, the gas earthquakes and the overspill from the Ter Apel refugee centre. It now seems his hand was forced by interior minister Judith Uitermark. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/form...

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Analysis of AIS data shows that in November 2023 the tanker Eagle S was navigating at minimal speed for 2 hours above the 'Atlantic Crossing 1' cable North of the Netherlands, newspaper NRC reports. The ship has been detained by Finland on suspicion of having damaged cables in the Gulf of Finland.

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Economic affairs minister Dirk Beljaarts withdrew from the WEF summit in Davos after his boss, Geert Wilders, tweeted that "no PVV-affiliated minster" would be attending. In case you were still wondering who wears the trousers in the Dutch government. www.ad.nl/politiek/dez...

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Happy New Year! The @DutchNewsNL Ophef of the Year podcast is now unlocked so you can relive the "highlights" of this year's social media skirmishes and vote for your favourite. Vote early, vote often and we'll reveal the winner on January 10! www.patreon.com/posts/118475...

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As is customary at this time of year, @mollyquell.bsky.social joined @palpeet.bsky.social and me to run through the contenders for the Ophef of the Year awards – the bizarre and offbeat news stories that outraged everyone for five minutes this year. www.patreon.com/posts/specia...

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The last @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast of the year! Marjolein Faber unveils her strict asylum plans, the agriculture minister paves the way for provinces to shoot problem wolves, more news on the blast in The Hague and a big week for fans of darts and draughts. www.patreon.com/posts/bright...

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Hein van Rijckevorsel, the former acting commandant of the Dutch military base in Uruzgan, says the government should keep a promise to evacuate Afghan security guards who protected his men and are now being hunted down and killed by the Taliban. www.dutchnews.nl/2024/12/afgh...

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Dutch pilots with diabetes are barred from working mainly because the last government wouldn't spend €220,000 a year on a European trial scheme. Usually government spending runs into millions or billions, but €220K? It's less than the equity in the average house. www.dutchnews.nl/2024/12/unio...

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This week's @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social podcast: four arrests after last weekend's deadly explosion in The Hague, we ask if the deal on the education budget adds up, and scientists in the Waddenzee ponder the Silence of the Seals. soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl/...

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