New definition has fewer Dutch living in poverty | NL Times
Oct 17, 2024 · Fewer people in the Netherlands live in poverty than in previous estimations, largely due to a new definition of poverty drawn up by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), budget institute Nibud, and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP). The new definition has 540,000 Dutch living in poverty last year.
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Carola Schouten takes over as Rotterdam’s new mayor
Oct 10, 2024 · Carola Schouten was installed as the new mayor of Rotterdam on Thursday in a packed council chamber of the Rotterdam city hall. She will replace Ahmed Aboutaleb, who was the mayor from January 2009 up to the beginning of this month. Schouten took the oath before the city council to Wouter Kolff, the King's Commissioner in …
Names and contact details of all Dutch police officers ... - NL Times
Sep 27, 2024 · The work-related contact details of all police officers were stolen during a cyberattack, Justice and Security Minister David van Weel confirmed on Friday. “Apart from the names of police officers, this does not involve private data or investigative data,” the minister wrote in a letter to Parliament.It concerns a hack of the account of one police officer, said a spokesperson for police ...
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More than half of Dutch energy from renewable sources for first …
Sep 27, 2024 · For the first time, more than half of electricity production in the Netherlands comes from renewable sources, such as wind and solar energy, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported. In the first half of this year, electricity production from renewable sources increased to 32.3 billion kilowatt hours. That brought renewable energy’s share to 53 percent of total electricity production.
Netherlands tightens export restrictions on microchip machines, …
Sep 6, 2024 · The Dutch government is tightening its export restrictions on microchip-making machines, specifically deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithographic machines.
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Dec 14, 2024 · Ajax back in second place with win against Almere; Utrecht draw against Go Ahead Eagles
Outrage over cops' "moral objections" to guarding Jewish sites
Oct 2, 2024 · Reports that some police officers don’t want to be deployed to protect Jewish institutions over moral objections to the violence in Gaza and Lebanon have caused outrage in the Netherlands. The police said it makes space for officers’ moral objections and switches shifts to accommodate for that where possible, but if there is an emergency or urgent situation, police officers respond ...
Amsterdam remembers dozens killed in Bijlmer plane crash …
Oct 4, 2024 · Use this graf to start: Surviving family members were joined by community members on Friday in commemorating the plane crash that rocked the Bijlmer in Amsterdam. It was 32 years ago that a cargo plane from Israeli airline El Al crashed into a high-rise apartment complex in the Amsterdam-Zuidoost neighborhood. The crash is "part of our national history," said Mayor Femke Halsema on Friday ...