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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...
2026 gets off to a hot and cold start with the most devastating New Year's Eve ever, culminating in the destruction of Amsterdam's Vondelker...
We round off the year with our traditional round-up of the most outrageous flash news stories of 2025, and this year has produced a bumper c...
The coalition talks grind on as the three parties decamp to Prince Bernhard's former military lodge. Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveils plans in Th...
Sybrand Buma bows out as coalition negotiator, leaving behind an iconic photograph and a Herculean task to form a new government. His succes...
The coalition talks hit an impasse as D66 and CDA's hopes of forming a government go up in smoke faster than an Ajax home match. Financial i...
Like exhausted generals at the Somme, the VVD gear up for one last push to get their asylum bill through parliament before the new cabinet t...
Dick Advocaat sparks scenes of jubilation on Curaçao and the world's shortest open top bus tour after the Caribbean nation reaches the World...
Rob Jetten and Henri Bontenbal give Dilan Yesilgöz a taste of her own medicine by shutting the VVD out of the first round of coalition talks...
National train chief Wouter Koolmees defies expectations by getting the first stage of coalition talks under way with only a slight delay. B...
We pick over the bones of the election that had just about everything … apart from a result. Jetten just about edges out Wilders, Yesilgöz s...
D66 look set to become the largest party in the new Dutch parliament in a shock result that sees Geert Wilders' far-right PVV lose a dozen s...
Clip from October 10 Dutch News podcast on the rise of D66 in the election campaign
A low-key election campaign staggers into its final days with a flurry of minor squabbles about refugee centres, religious schools and wheth...
In the absence of Geert Wilders, the election debates kick off with an evening of shadow boxing between four parties who could all end up in...
The election campaign heats up with rumours of a meltdown in the VVD, Henri Bontenbal being roasted on the dance floor and Volt blowing a fu...
The election campaign gets off to an ominous start as Amsterdam puts up billboards with an American accent and Geert Wilders goes rage-canva...
The eruption of far-right violence in The Hague destroys the fragile hopes of a civil, constructive election campaign. Housing minister Mona...
Prinsjesdag is usually a day to delight fashion fans and financial nerds, but this year's edition fell short on both fronts as the parties g...
Usually Treasury Tuesday is the high point of September, but this year it was overshadowed by Super Saturday, when Dutch politicians stood u...
The podcast returns with a look back to a summer in which the government managed the unprecedented feat of collapsing for a second time. The...
In a hilarious and intricate farce set in The Hague, Geert Wilders plays a man who wakes up every morning unable to remember if he still sup...
Mark Rutte's plan to treat Donald Trump like Orange royalty paid dividends at the Nato summit in The Hague. Specifically 5% dividends, as th...
The election campaign gathers pace as Dilan Yesilgöz goes on the attack against GroenLinks-PvdA while also slamming the door on another coal...
After a week of strategic bickering between the coalition parties, Dick Schoof brokers a deal to split the asylum ministry three ways, makin...
In the most unsurprising plot twist since James Cameron's Titanic, the Dutch cabinet collapsed this week when Geert Wilders walked out in pr...
Eleven months after Dick Schoof's cabinet took office and 10½ months later than expected, the Dutch cabinet has collapsed after Geert Wilder...
The capital's 750th birthday celebrations get off to a chaotic start, while Ajax lose the title and their Italian coach in the space of a we...
Pressure mounts on the Dutch cabinet to denounce Israel's destruction of Gaza, with the mayor of Amsterdam, universities and even PVV voters...
Foreign minister Casper Veldkamp finally draws a red line over Israel's intervention in Gaza, but will it be the fault line that ruptures th...
As the economy cools, the cabinet burns through its green energy fund to bail out fossil fuel users and torch its climate change targets. Th...
The passing of Pope Francis managed to put the king's birthday birthday celebrations and Pieter Omtzigt's dramatic departure from politics i...
An Easter egg scramble begins in The Hague as ministers try to grab a morsel of the €8 billion available in his spring budget statement. The...
Once again Marjolein Faber confounds critics and partners alike with her bottomless talent for turning a storm in a teacup into a political...
This week it was the turn of the immigration service and the justice inspectorate to take Marjolein Faber to task over her unravelling immig...
Dick Schoof heads to Brussels for a defence spending summit with orders to pull the emergency brake on the Eurobonds train. Back in The Hagu...