Amsterdam: The Making of a City, 1980-Today (Dutch: De Stad: Het verhaal van Amsterdam van 1980 tot vandaag) differs from Geert Mak and Russell Shorto’s approach to the city’s history. Rather than ...

Amsterdam city council’s marketing arm Amsterdam&Partners is continuing to fund press trips to the city, despite official pledges to cut back on tourism. In 2025, Amsterdam&Partners organised 22 group ...

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Public prosecutors want to seize €8 million from Dutch former international footballer Quincy Promes, money they say he earned smuggling cocaine, broadcaster NOS has reported. An Amsterdam court ...

This spring will be one of the five warmest since records began in the Netherlands in 1901, weather forecasters say. This temperature has averaged 11°, over a full degree higher than the long-term ...

Breda-based public transport company GoVolta is planning to launch a €19 ticket to travel from Amsterdam to Paris, owner ...

If the government had acted faster at the outbreak of the coronavirus in March 2020 it would likely have meant fewer deaths ...

Dutch ministers have spent some €1.8 million on renting private jets over the past five years, according to research by RTL ...

Amsterdam city council’s coalition has dropped plans to build a giant erotic centre close to the Zuidas business district, the Parool reported on Friday. The new administration – made up of the PvdA, ...

Over 23,000 permits were granted for new-build homes in the first quarter of 2026, and nearly 14,000 were completed, ...

Searches of asylum seekers’ phones and laptops by Dutch authorities have no adequate legal basis and should stop until one is in place, the Justice and Security Inspectorate has found. The asylum ...

A parliamentary inquiry set up to examine the government’s strategy to deal with coronavirus and the measures taken to limit the spread of the disease starts public hearings on Friday. The commission ...