Amsterdam protesters pressing excessive force charges against …
Nov 15, 2024 · Demonstrators who participated in a banned Palestine-support protest in Amsterdam on Wednesday will be pressing charges of excessive force and police brutality against the police. Several protesters described to NOS how terrified they were when the riot police suddenly started chasing them and hitting them with batons after dropping them off at the Westelijke Havengebied by bus.
New definition has fewer Dutch living in poverty | NL Times
Oct 17, 2024 · Fewer people in the Netherlands live in poverty than in previous estimations, largely due to a new definition of poverty drawn up by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), budget institute Nibud, and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP). The new definition has 540,000 Dutch living in poverty last year.
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Activist wants Amsterdam emergency decree removed through …
Nov 10, 2024 · Activist Frank van der Linde has initiated summary proceedings against the emergency decree that has been in force in Amsterdam since Friday evening. The decree prohibits the holding of demonstrations. According to van der Linde, this violates civil liberties and the constitution, his lawyer said.
Carola Schouten takes over as Rotterdam’s new mayor
Oct 10, 2024 · Carola Schouten was installed as the new mayor of Rotterdam on Thursday in a packed council chamber of the Rotterdam city hall. She will replace Ahmed Aboutaleb, who was the mayor from January 2009 up to the beginning of this month. Schouten took the oath before the city council to Wouter Kolff, the King's Commissioner in …
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Rail workers start rush hour strike affecting passenger trains in …
Nov 13, 2024 · Many commuters are expected to be inconvenienced by railroad worker strikes in the Netherlands on Wednesday morning.The three-hour strike was scheduled to begin at 6 a.m., and was expected to affect service in all of Noord-Holland, including Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport, and Alkmaar, but also a much wider area due to the importance of the region to the national passenger rail network.
Outrage over cops' "moral objections" to guarding Jewish sites
Oct 2, 2024 · Reports that some police officers don’t want to be deployed to protect Jewish institutions over moral objections to the violence in Gaza and Lebanon have caused outrage in the Netherlands. The police said it makes space for officers’ moral objections and switches shifts to accommodate for that where possible, but if there is an emergency or urgent situation, police officers respond ...
Two NSC parliamentarians resign over racism in Cabinet after …
Nov 19, 2024 · NSC parliamentarians Rosanne Hertzberger and Femke Zeedijk have resigned from the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament. Interim party leader Nicolien van Vroonhoven announced their resignation after the coalition party’s weekly meeting, saying they cited unrest in the Cabinet last week following riots in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam remembers dozens killed in Bijlmer plane crash …
Oct 4, 2024 · Use this graf to start: Surviving family members were joined by community members on Friday in commemorating the plane crash that rocked the Bijlmer in Amsterdam. It was 32 years ago that a cargo plane from Israeli airline El Al crashed into a high-rise apartment complex in the Amsterdam-Zuidoost neighborhood. The crash is "part of our national history," said Mayor Femke Halsema on Friday ...