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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Since the Dutch government has signalled the end of dolphin in the Netherlands, the Protection of Animals Society is turning its attention to other large animal species like elephants and tigers. “This decision raises the question: is it actually possible to keep all animal species properly in zoos?

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The International Energy Agency discusses today whether countries should release more oil and petroleum products from emergency reserves. The Netherlands does not intend to do so for the time being. The government fears that reserves will be needed later on if the global oil crisis worsens.

Storage facilities at the Port of Rotterdam. Photo: Michiel Verbeek.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

According to Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten the diesel deal that US President Donald Trump recently struck with Russia is inexplicable and, as far as the government is concerned, must be scrapped. The deal is “undesirable and unwise”, Jetten said on Tuesday evening during a debate.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Netherlands is set to have its own AI gigafactory in the Port of Rotterdam. The factory will utilise the world’s best chips to deploy AI on a large scale. The Amsterdam based AI company Nebius signed up as the first major client, marking the start of construction on this multi-billion project.

Wikimedia Foundation Servers: Photo: Victor Grigas.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dutch research is being carried out into how farmers can produce cultured meat. Techniques are being tested at the Wageningen University. A Dutch farmer is the first in the world to take part in a trial. The results are promising. Yet it is not for sale in the Netherlands. Why is it taking so long?

World's first cultured hamburger 2013. Photo: World Economic Forum.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Despite opposition in the House of Representatives, Dutch judges maintain that deporting asylum seekers to Italy may violate their human rights. Conditions in the country of destination, where reception centres are full, are still not adequate for this purpose.

Refugees arrive from Turkey at Lesbos in Greece. Photo: Ggia.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Dutch navy frigate Zr.Ms. Evertsen that was sent on a mission last spring without a functioning cannon is not the only weapon system with faults. More than half of the Dutch army’s 22 most powerful weapon systems are not fully operational. Only nine systems meet all the specified requirements.

Dutch naval frigate Zr.Ms. Evertsen. Photo: Dutch Navy.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A march by far-right demonstrators through The Hague has been banned this afternoon due to ongoing violence by rioters. Police officers are being attacked with fireworks. Several anti-Semitic slogans have been heard. The riot police has been deployed and a state of emergency has been declared.

Defend Netherlands protesters during a demonstration on the Malieveld exactly a year ago which culminated in extreme violence. Photo: Kniesoor.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At the site of chemical giant Chemours in Dordrecht around 2.7 million cubic metres of groundwater has been contaminated with PFAS. Enough to fill well over a thousand Olympic-sized swimming pools. The contamination has now been officially classified as ‘serious’ and requires ‘urgent action’.

View from bell tower Grote Kerk in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Photo: Ludvig14.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Dutch rail network operator ProRail says that pipes have been found on railway tracks in several places today. At some locations, material has been deposited again. The police are investigating. Small fires were also reported this afternoon along several roads. Several bales of hay were on fire.

Highway A2 at Zaltbommel in smoke. video still Rijkswaterstaat traffic information.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No trains are running in parts of the Netherlands this morning due to a disruption caused by sabotage. According to the rail network operator, “materials that had been deliberately placed there” were found at several locations along the track. The disruption originated in the middle of the country.

Dutch train arriving in Amsterdam Central Station. Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On November the first the Dutch government can finally implement its plans for Schiphol Airport, including a reduction in capacity, fewer night-time flights, less noise pollution and at last enforcement in the event of breaches. Today the Council of State approved the government’s Schiphol plans.

Boeing 747-406 taking off at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Photo: Frans Berkelaar.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This Saturday far right organises a 'We Are the People' demonstration in The Hague against the government’s policies and against immigration. A year ago a similar protest got completely out of hand. A counter-demonstration will also take place and XR will stage a protest. Police are on high alert.

Demonstrators from Defend Netherlands in The Hague a year ago. Photo: Kniesoor.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For years whole trees from the Malaysian rainforest have been ending up in Dutch power stations as "sustainable biomass". As a result elephants and tigers are losing their habitats. The Clean Air Committee Foundation is taking the matter to court demanding the government put a stop to this practice

Illustration Clean Air Committee Foundation.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wednesday Dutch Minister of Justice, David van Weel, gave an interview to a Sierra Leonean news channel regarding the year old extradition request for ‘Bolle Jos’. Van Weel spoke of a difficult working relationship. The Prime Minister of Sierra Leone dismissed the criticism as “neo-colonialism”.

Bolle (fat) Jos at event in Sierra Leone. Video still.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dutch residents have achieved an unexpected victory against 250-metre-high new German wind turbines on the border. Münster has withdrawn from a wind turbine project. New German wind turbines are an issue in towns along the entire eastern border. Despite a treaty the Dutch have no say whatsoever.

Wind turbines in Germany. Photo: Bodoklecksel.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Last year four people in the Netherlands chose to undergo euthanasia, citing post-Covid as the main reason. In 2024, post-COVID played a part in four requests for euthanasia and in 2023 post-COVID was a factor on four occasions, and the symptoms were the main reason for euthanasia on one occasion.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple). Photo: NIH.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The government wants the Netherlands to use more green gas. Energy suppliers will be required to purchase sustainable gas produced from manure or food waste. According to insiders it is impossible to produce sufficient green gas within the Netherlands. A lot of green gas will be need to be imported.

Green gas production plant at a former landfill site Schoteroog. Photo: Hanno Lans.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A first for Europe: the Dutch city Delft is to store geothermal heat 200 metres underground for heating homes in winter. Together with the geothermal source, this heat reserve is set to supply heat to campus buildings and 6,000 homes. Work on the sources will begin in mid-September.

Geothermal Well in The Hague. Photo: Hans Erren.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sunday night a huge consignment of cocaine from West Africa was intercepted in France. It seems the extremely valuable shipment partly belongs to the Dutch criminal Fat Jos. French customs intercepted the cocaine shipment, many thousands of kilograms, on board a cargo ship from Ghana.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The subsidy that Tata Steel Netherlands receives from the Dutch government for the production of green steel will amount to €10.8 billion by 2045 if the bespoke agreement between the steel company and the government goes ahead. That is considerably more than the one-off €2 euros currently envisaged.

Tata Steel Netherlands. Photo: Arwin Meijer.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In the first half of 2026 the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service paid out approximately €99 million in penalty payments to asylum seekers. 64 asylum seekers received more than €80,000 in compensation for delays in the processing of their asylum applications.

Top of letter from Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service. Photo: Donald Trung Quoc Don.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

32 suspects arrested in connection with the violence in Overasselt were brought before the District Court today. 16 French and 11 Dutch nationals, 2 Algerians, 1 Libyan, 1 Ukrainian and 1 Belgian. They are all suspected of murder or manslaughter in relation to the death of a security guard.

Screenshot from security camera just before the attack in Overasselt.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The new The Hague city council is “crystal clear”: no asylum seekers will be housed in the former Haga Hospital. Also other local coalitions that want to scrap plans for an Asylum Seekers’ Center (AZC). Doing so could result in a fine and there is still a risk that a AZC could be imposed by force.

Main Entrance to the former Haga Hospital in The Hague. Photo RPflug.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dutch elderly people choose to live at home longer and are more likely to receive care at home. As a result one in five nursing homes has fewer residents and patients also stay there for shorter periods. At one in five nursing homes this trend is leading to a decline in the number of residents.

Nurse administering medicine. Photo Shixart1985.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rabobank expects the Dutch economy to grow by 1.3 percent this year. More than half of that growth is due to rising government spending, such as on defense and costs associated with an aging population. Consumer spending is also contributing to the growth.

Rabobank Tower in Utrecht. Photo Choinowski.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One hundred major Dutch companies - from Bavaria beer and online store Bol to supermarket chain Jumbo and amusement park Efteling - have pledged to sell more secondhand goods, purchase more organic products, and waste fewer raw materials in the coming years. 5 political parties have also signed on.

Bavaria beer bottle label. Photo Jasper K.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dutch criminal Jos Leijdekkers, alias Fat Jos, “strongly distances himself from the unfounded allegations, which are being systematically levelled against him on all manner of grounds, that he was involved in yesterday’s violent and deadly incident in Overasselt”. This is according to his lawyers.

Fat Jos at event in Sierra Leone. Video still.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Dutch National Bank relocated a large proportion of the Netherlands' gold reserves. Due to growing global tensions, the central bank wishes to be better prepared for potential crises. In total, over 86 tonnes of gold (worth €10.3 billion) have been transferred from the US and Canada to London.

Gold bars. Photo: Chepry (Andrzej Barabasz).

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Europe is at risk of losing industry and thousands of jobs to China and the US. It is time to defend ourselves using unorthodox measures: impose import tariffs and weaken the euro. This is the view set out by the Dutch Council for Government Policy in a new advisory report to the government.

Illustration from the WRR report 'Strategic Action, Policy for a Geopolitical Economy'.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thanks to a Rotterdam-based company, Ukrainian soldiers have recently been able to view virtually real-time satellite images of the situation on the battlefield, for example on their mobile phones. No Russian soldier can remain unseen on the front line or behind it. A real game-changer.”

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten has described today’s motorway protests by farmers as ‘utterly unacceptable’ and the distribution of Stars of David by the far-right party Forum for Democracy as ‘disgusting’. Despite calls to avoid motorways, farmers have nevertheless begun protests on motorways.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The low water levels in the Rhine are also beginning to have an impact on petrol stations in Germany. In parts of the country, petrol and diesel prices have risen sharply because it has become more difficult to transport fuel via the river.

Low water levels on the Dutch river Lek. Photo: Jan Dijkstra

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

German immigration checks have caused the number of accidents on the Dutch side of the border to rise by 250%. On the A12, A1, A37, A7 and A76 motorways accidents are now occurring several times a week. There have even been four fatalities so far. Dutch mayors from the border region have had enough.

German border controls. Photo: Leonhard Lenz.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Never before has there been so little water flowing through the Rhine. ‘The situation is problematic,’ says the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. Inland waterway transport on a crucial stretch of the Rhine is at risk of coming to a standstill warns the German inland waterway association.

Low water levels on the Middle Rhine in 2026. Photo Rolf Kranz.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Farmers' protests are raining down these days. The message is the same everywhere: the latest nitrogen measures must be taken off the table. Yesterday the N226 road was blocked by tractors. 'Farming is being made impossible for us here. It is the impending downfall of the agricultural sector.'

Protest Farmers Defence Force 2020. Photo: Dutch Ministry of Defence.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Due to the growing popularity of glasses with built-in cameras, social media is being flooded with footage of people filmed without their knowledge. Videos of women sunbathing in bikinis and of recognizable sex workers and clients. Amsterdam politician Sheher Khan believes it is time for action.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The New York Times calls The Hague the place to escape the heat: it has published a major feature on the city. The Hague’ is the ideal spot for a ‘coolcation’: 'unlike in sweltering southern Europe, it’s still a pleasant place to be. More and more Spaniards and Italians’.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In Russia, Russian military personnel have come into possession of wreckage from a Dutch cruise missile. It is believed to be the Ruta Block 1, which was designed and manufactured by the Dutch company Destinus. What sort of company is this, and to what extent are they involved in the war in Ukraine?

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A number of water boards in the south and east of the Netherlands have run out of measures to combat the drought. The Brabantse Delta and Drents-Overijsselse Delta water boards, amongst others, say they have taken every possible measure to maintain water levels. ‘We’ve reached the limit.’

`The River Waal near Rossum in Gelderland at low water in July 2025. Photo: Klankbeeld.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Rabobank, the ‘farmers’ bank’, is positive about the Dutch government’s new nitrogen plan. According to chief executive Stefaan Decraene: 'a number of farmers will be affected' and 'some will be a little less happy with this', but the worst thing would be to do nothing', said Decraene.

Farmer's protest in The Hague 1 October 2019. Photo: Kees Torn.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ING economist Carsten Brzeski expects the low water levels to cost the German economy at least 0.3% of growth this year. Ships can only carry little cargo. Three major German industrial clusters are directly linked to Rotterdam via the Rhine. ‘The low water strikes at the heart of German industry.’

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Dutch AIVD ranks among the top 3 intelligence services in Europe according to a remarkable ranking published by the French weekly L’Express following a survey of 60 leading figures from the European and Western intelligence communities. However: ‘All European services are too bureaucratic'.

AIVD headquarters. Photo: S.J. de Waard.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The world’s largest Dutch insect farm Protix is being dishonest in its sustainability claims, according to the campaign group Wakker Dier (Alert Animal). It has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority. Protix produces black soldier fly larvae and sells them as animal feed.

Larvae and prepupae of Hermetia illucens. Photo: ShaunRomero.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The effect of the drought in the Netherlands are becoming noticeable. In South Holland areas that are normally used for water storage are now being used to store fresh water. 800 swimming pools’ worth of water is being channelled into the polder to postpone drastic measures for the time being.

South Holland, view towards Delft. Photo: Gerd Eichmann.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Dutch government wants to make the Netherlands a ‘digital frontrunner’, but refuses to foot the bill for a massive European AI project that the EU is willing to fund. As a result the Netherlands risks missing out on the factories of the future. A missed opportunity according to a specialist.

Artificial Intelligence illustration. Author: Anaf Ibn Shahibul 2.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Despite media attention forest fires in Europe decreased by 40% over the past decade compared to the period from 1981-2010 conclude researchers from Groningen University and other institutions. Public awareness campaigns and improved training among other factors are responsible for this decline.

Italian-registered Bombardier 415 dropping water during a firefighting session. Photo: Maarten Visser.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Save Europe Act presents itself as a European citizens’ initiative, but the network behind the remigration campaign has links to the far right in the US and Moscow. This is revealed by Justice for Prosperity. A ‘Remigration Saves Europe’ demonstration will take place in Utrecht today.

Save Europe Act demonstration in Brussels. Photo: Save Europe Act.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How do you secure an event with a million visitors, a boat parade nearly 6 kilometres long and ten street parties all taking place at the same time? These are crucial questions for WorldPride in Amsterdam, particularly following last Saturday’s attack in Berlin.

Canal Pride Amsterdam. Photo: Tadeáš Bednarz.

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Dutch news feed @featurez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The typical Dutch tulip fields are at risk of disappearing in about twenty years’ time. Drier summers will irrevocably change the Dutch landscape, warns Dutch Delta Programme Commissioner Co Verdaas, who is responsible for water policy. “Everyone will feel the effects of this.”

Tulip bulb field. Photo: Ralf Roletschek.

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