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New European rules on asylum come into force, but the Dutch immigration service warns it will take a year to clear the backlog. An extraditi...
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New European rules on asylum come into force, but the Dutch immigration service warns it will take a year to clear the backlog. An extraditi...

In the wake of the recent asylum riots, we unpick the Dutch far-right landscape with the help of Leiden university professor Sarah de Lange....

Social affairs minister Hans Vijlbrief cans the cabinet’s plans to extend the retirement age in the hope of avoiding a summer of strikes. Ac...

As the atmosphere outside asylum centres grows heated and the debate becomes increasingly poisonous, Rob Jetten sends in a crack team of civ...

An outbreak of a rat-borne virus on a cruise ship triggers mass anxiety as phrases like "self-isolation" and "test and trace" re-enter the l...

The army is feeling the heat after several wildfires break out during training excercises in tinderbox conditions. The king gets his skates...

Vaudevillian scenes in the Senate as the PVV block their own asylum bill before blaming D66 for not wanting to soil their hands with it. The...

Those who can, plan; those who can't, plan scenarios. At any rate, that seems to be how the Dutch government is preparing for the impending...

The Netherlands promises to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but only once the hellfire has died down. Continuing the theme of negotiati...

As political parties around the country come together to form council administrations, the far-right Forum voor Democratie rage against the...

All parties claim victory after this week's local elections, but the real winners were the local parties, who took more than one-third of th...

With a week to go until the local elections, we provide a Dutch News crash course in how to vote and find your way through the jungle of loc...

As local elections approach, we talk to polling expert and political scientist Tom Louwerse about the kaleidoscopic range of candidate and p...

Rob Jetten starts work as prime minister by shaking hands with Olympic heroes and doing backroom deals with PVV refuseniks. Mona Keijzer cre...

Rob Jetten starts his term one finance minister short of a full cabinet after Natalie van Berkel is found to have inflated her credentials o...

*Apologies to regular listeners for the short format, which was caused by a technical hiccup. Normal service, or what passes for it, will be...

The coalition talks wrap up in record time with Rob Jetten announcing plans for everyone to work longer and pay more for nursing care when t...

Rob Jetten takes a big step towards becoming the Netherlands' youngest ever prime minister as D66, VVD and CDA agree to form a minority cabi...

Chaotic scenes in The Hague as seven PVV MPs break away, leaving Geert Wilders's party with the same number of members as it had before (one...

The new coalition leaders signal a break from unstable political experiments by forming a minority government that depends on the support of...