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18/06/2026

The unemployment rate in the Netherlands remained unchanged at 3.9 percent in May, with 399,000 people out of work, according to Statistics Netherlands. Although the number of unemployed people has decreased by an average of 6,000 a month over the past three months, the number of people in paid jobs...

18/06/2026

Recommended retail fuel prices have fallen again, with Euro95 dropping by 0.7 cents and diesel by 1.1 cents. The ongoing decline reflects easing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East after reports of a US–Iran peace agreement, which has reduced pressure on global oil markets.

18/06/2026

The European Commission plans to make investing through a private limited company (BV) more attractive by completely eliminating tax on dividends between companies, the Telegraaf reported based on a draft proposal from European Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. The Dutch European Commissioner aims to fac...

18/06/2026

TU Delft continues to be the highest-ranked Dutch university, placing 48th globally and 13th in Europe, according to the British QS World University Rankings 2027, which were published on Thursday. The University of Amsterdam is ranked 60th worldwide and 16th in Europe, while Utrecht University has....

18/06/2026

AEX-listed companies are increasingly being led by foreign chief executives, with the proportion of non-Dutch CEOs rising for a second year in a row, according to research by Heidrick & Struggles. The study also found that the Netherlands' largest publicly traded firms have become more inclined to p...

18/06/2026

Police have found a fireworks mortar and a suspected pipe bomb at a refugee reception centre under construction in Nuenen, Noord-Brabant. The facility is expected to open later this summer.Preliminary investigations indicate that the items were genuine explosive devices, according to police. The Exp...

18/06/2026

A string of running events across the Netherlands is being scaled back or canceled as high temperatures threaten this weekend, coming weeks after a participant died at a Utrecht half marathon in early June and another fatality occurred at a similar event in Leiden.

18/06/2026

The two people found dead in a home on Meerhoven in Meerstad village, Groningen, are a married couple, 53-year-old Johan Enting and his 53-year-old wife, Mathilda Diemel, who lived there with their 13-year-old daughter, who, DVHN alleges, was the one arrested for a murder that police only describe a...

18/06/2026

The recovery in the Dutch new-build housing market has stalled, with sales of newly built owner-occupied homes dropping 14 percent in the first five months of 2026 as higher mortgage rates, economic uncertainty, and stronger competition from existing homes weigh on demand, ING Bank reported on Thurs...

18/06/2026

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has evidence to prove that 18 people died due to drugs they bought on the banned website Funcaps, the prosecutor said during a preliminary hearing in the court in Zwolle on Thursday. The two owners of Funcaps, Jord van W. (32) and Stefan P. (30), are suspected of....

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