Alcohol sales limited, "vulgar" dancing banned at Summer Carnival in Rotterdam

1 day, 11 hours ago

Dutch chess player slams FIDE ban on sneakers for World Rapid and Blitz C’ships: ‘Ignorance and old-fashioned standards’

Dutch player Anna-Maja Kazarian is a known name among chess fans. The popular Twitch streamer was fined 100 Euros by FIDE last year after she violated the dress code during the World Rapid Championship. Taking to X, she wrote, “Seems like FIDE doubled-down after last year’s mess: NO sneakers allowed at all at the World Rapid & Blitz! It’s very …

Chess Player Dress Blitz Wear Fide World Rapid

2 weeks ago

Dutch Parliament majority wants to ban boiling of live crabs and lobsters

NL Times

Members of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, have renewed calls for a ban on boiling lobsters and crabs alive, describing the practice as unnecessarily cruel. The practice of boiling lobsters and crabs alive is still common in many Dutch restaurants, driven by the belief that the fresher the preparation, the better the taste. Several countries, including …

Dutch Live Ban Crabs Lobsters Boiling Kostić

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Dutch banks won't help gov't set gambling limit to protect customers' privacy

NL Times

Dutch banks will not help the government to set a gambling limit for their customers. They feel that monitoring customers’ gambling behavior is a privacy violation, Ronit van der Schaaf of the Dutch Banking Association told NOS. “We see the scale of the number of people with problematic gambling debts, but we are surprised that the solution to these problems …

Gambling Dutch Dutch Banks Banks Customers Van Der Limit

1 year ago

Potential coalition parties not enthusiastic about banning New Year's fireworks

NL Times

The PVV, NSC, BBB, and VVD are not enthusiastic about the plea from over 30 municipalities for a national fireworks ban. “The misery is largely due to fireworks that are already illegal,” said Ingrid Michon. “National regulations still won’t make it enforceable,” said BBB parliamentarian Henk Vermeer. Municipalities have the freedom to ban fireworks in certain areas or neighborhoods and, …

Ban Nsc Bbb Vvd Fireworks Rules

1 year ago

Rotterdam's Summer Carnival recognized as intangible heritage on UNESCO list

NL Times

UNESCO has added the Rotterdam Summer Carnival to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Rotterdam Summer Carnival was already on the Dutch list of intangible heritage. “The Rotterdam Summer Carnival is tied to people’s cultural roots and their emancipation, bolstering individuality, expression, and self-worth,” UNESCO said. “By uniting groups of different backgrounds, it also fosters acceptance of …

List Unesco Rotterdam Intangible Heritage Summer Carnival Carnival Recognized

1 year, 4 months ago

Hospitality industry also opposes Amsterdam's plans for erotic center

NL Times

The Amsterdam branch of the hospitality association KHN has joined the protest against the Dutch capital’s plans to close some window brothels in the Red Light District and open an Erotic Center. The spokesperson referred to the ban on smoking weed on the street in the Red Light District and earlier closing times for window brothels and catering establishments in …

Red Khn Erotic Center

1 year, 4 months ago

Malaysian music festival threatens The 1975 with legal action over ‘indecent stage behaviour’

The Telegraph

A Malaysian festival has demanded damages from The 1975 over allegations that frontman Matty Healy’s “abusive language, equipment damage and indecent stage behaviour” caused the event to be cancelled. At the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur in July, Healy made a speech about homosexuality, which is illegal in Malaysia, and kissed bassist Ross MacDonald on stage. Future Sound Asia …

Malaysia Fsa Malaysian Indecent Stage Behaviour

1 year, 4 months ago

Utrecht temporarily bans hard drug use in public space

NL Times

Starting today, Utrecht has temporarily banned the use of hard drugs in public space. In mid-June, the city council approved a proposal by Mayor Sharon Dijksma to ban the use of hard drugs in public spaces through an amendment to the General Local Bye-Law. “The ban on hard drug use has been in effect for several years, and the municipalities …

Drug Ban Hard Public Space Utrecht Hard Drugs Hard Drug Use

1 year, 6 months ago

DutchNews podcast – The Flemings and Flamingos Edition – Week 21

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep our stocks of drop, oude kaas and stroopwafels healthy? Amsterdam bans smoking joints in public in the latest stage of the capital’s 12-step plan to kick its drug tourism dependency. One football coach abruptly quits, another unexpectedly stays, while Ajax’s women have their league title celebrations cancelled so as not to humiliate …

Public Cannabis

1 year, 6 months ago

DutchNews podcast – The Flemings and Flamingos Edition – Week 21

Dutch News

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep our stocks of drop, oude kaas and stroopwafels healthy? Amsterdam bans smoking joints in public in the latest stage of the capital’s 12-step plan to kick its drug tourism dependency. One football coach abruptly quits, another unexpectedly stays, while Ajax’s women have their league title celebrations cancelled so as not to humiliate …

1 year, 8 months ago

Amsterdam travel: Everything British tourists shouldn’t do on a visit to the Dutch capital

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Led by friendly guides, you’ll be shown around several of the city’s finest drinking establishments, and, if you wish, you …

Travel Amsterdam Dutch Drugs Sex Coffee Sex Work

1 year, 10 months ago

Rotterdam mayor pledges to keep lobbying for national fireworks ban

NL Times

Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb will continue to lobby national politicians on behalf of his city to turn local bans on fireworks into a nationwide ban. He said he believes this is partly because fireworks are sold legally in almost thirty Rotterdam businesses during the New Year’s Eve period, even though the fireworks cannot be ignited in the city. That is …

Fireworks City Eve Ban Rotterdam

1 year, 10 months ago

Why Amsterdam is banning marijuana use in its red light district

Firstpost

Smoking joints will be prohibited in the canal-lined streets of the Dutch capital housing brothels, sex shops and strip clubs from mid-May. The move comes as locals have for years complained about the menace caused by tourists Amsterdam has banned smoking cannabis on the street in the red light district to tackle crime and “anti-social” behaviour. “Residents of the old …

Amsterdam Dutch Netherlands Sex Cannabis City Capital

1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam BANS cannabis from its famous red light district

Daily Mail

Restaurants and bars will have to close by 2am and sex workers' venues by 3am Amsterdam will soon ban cannabis from its famous red light district as part of new regulations by the city. The new laws, which were announced yesterday, will be in force from mid-May and aim to improve residents' quality of life as they have long complained …

Cannabis Alcohol City Light District

1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam wants to ban smoking cannabis in the Red Light District from mid-May

NL Times

Amsterdam announced plans on Thursday to forbid people from smoking cannabis in the old city center of the capital. Additionally, Mayor Femke Halsema and the coalition of aldermen who lead the city will investigate if they can also ban people from collecting soft drugs at businesses in De Wallen. "Residents of the old city center are structurally and excessively bothered …

City Red Ban De Wallen Soft Drugs

2 years, 1 month ago

Amsterdam lowers first fine for breaking holiday rental rules

NL Times

The municipality of Amsterdam is reducing the first fine it issues to people who rent out a home to tourists against the rules using holiday rental platforms such as Airbnb. Amsterdammers who commit their first violation of the holiday rental rules were previously fined 8,700 euros. Instead of full-time landlords renting to tourists, it is Amsterdammers who actually live in …

Amsterdam Fine Rule Municipality

2 years, 2 months ago

Arnhem bans New Year's fireworks from next year

NL Times

Arnhem will ban consumer fireworks from New Year’s next year. According to responsible alderman Marco van der Wel, the coronavirus years have shown that New Year’s “can be celebrated well without massive consumer fireworks,” which were banned during the pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic put the topic in the background because over the past two New Year’s, people weren’t allowed outside …

Fireworks Ban New Year Consumer Fireworks

2 years, 3 months ago

Dutch city bans adverts for holiday flights amid climate crisis

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Dutch city has announced it will ban advertising for holiday flights as part of a …

Dutch City Climate Crisis Ban Fossil Fuels Adverts Haarlem

2 years, 3 months ago

Dutch city plans to ban most meat adverts

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Dutch city is set to ban adverts for most meat products from public spaces …

Dutch Climate Meat Ban Klazes

2 years, 5 months ago

Laughing gas use banned in almost all of Utrecht

NL Times

It will soon be prohibited to use laughing gas in almost the entire city of Utrecht. The districts of Binnenstad and Oost will soon be the only districts left where the use of laughing gas is not banned. The use of laughing gas causes serious nuisance on the street and has major consequences for the health of users. Life-threatening situations …

Gas Ban Laughing Utrecht Laughing Gas

2 years, 7 months ago

Netherlands implementing stricter advertising rules for influencers

NL Times

Vloggers and influencers on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok will have to comply with stricter advertising rules from July 1. Video makers must then clearly state whether they are getting paid to display products. They will also no longer be allowed to extensively promote toys in Video makers are still allowed to show their enthusiasm for products as long …

Media Authority

2 years, 10 months ago

Nightclub demonstration ends peacefully; venue in Tilburg fined

NL Times

Nightclubs opened in violation of Covid measures Saturday night in a protest that was largely peaceful. "We know that we are sold out…and we can receive a lot of happy people,” said Pieter de Kroon, owner of the Chicago Social Club in Amsterdam. The municipality of Amsterdam warned in advance that nightclubs that stayed open after 10 p.m. would be …

Club Nightclub Rotterdam Utrecht Tilburg Nightclubs

2 years, 10 months ago

Nightclubs to open in defiance of Covid measures tonight

NL Times

Nightclubs throughout the Netherlands will participate in “The Night Stands Up,” opening their doors in protest against current coronavirus measures. The catering industry is now allowed to be open until 10 p.m. Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz previously asked nightclubs not to participate in the protest, since the current measures are expected to be relaxed next weekend. Clubs across the country …

Nightclub Municipalities Announced

2 years, 10 months ago

Carnival can't be banned, mayors say; Decision in two weeks

NL Times

Carnival cannot be banned. "In an indoor location full of music, people with a beer in hand do not stay 1.5 meters apart in their place," said Bruls. "We must try to discourage the large influx," said Bruls, also the head of the Security Council. Annemarie Penn te Stake of Maastricht said that she would "do her best," but she …

Carnival Two Weeks Mayors Bruls Yesilgöz

3 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam Dance Event kicks off today for first time in 2 years

NL Times

The Amsterdam Dance Event is happening in Amsterdam from Wednesday until October 17. With the current coronavirus restrictions set only a month ago, ADE directors Jan-Willem van de Ven and Meindert Kennis had to work hard, but they are proud of the results. Many people really waited until we, or Rutte, decided whether ADE could happen," Van de Ven said. …

Amsterdam Event Restrictions Ade Kennis

3 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam officially bans most fireworks on New Year's Eve

NL Times

No fireworks will be allowed in Amsterdam on New Year's Eve this year. This year the municipality is organizing a New Year's celebration on Museumplein with a fireworks show, a musical program, and a light and laser show. The city is also providing grants for festive New Year’s initiatives organized by the people of Amsterdam themselves. All plans remain dependent …

Fireworks City

3 years, 3 months ago

Largest Amsterdam Dance Event party, AMF, cancelled over Covid rules

NL Times

The Amsterdam Music Festival, the largest party of the Amsterdam Dance Event, will not take place this year due to the coronavirus restrictions. The AMF was scheduled for October 16 with 40 thousand attendees at full capacity and performances by DJs Afrojack, Tiesto, Nicky Romero, Armin van Buuren and David Guetta. A spokesperson for the ADE told NU.nl that it …

Amsterdam Event Restrictions Announced Amf

3 years, 3 months ago

Health Min. asked concert organizer not to produce dance events

NL Times

In a big departure from this summer's "dancing with Janssen", caretaker Health Minister Hugo de Jonge on Monday asked concert organizer MOJO to not organize any dance events in the coming period, in view of upcoming relaxations of the coronavirus restrictions. "Actually, we were asked to ban dancing," MOJO director Ruben Brouwer said on Op1. Sources close to the cabinet …

Mojo Brouwer Health Min

3 years, 4 months ago

Thousands march to demand a return of Dutch music festivals

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hundreds of performers and festival organizers held marches through …

Festivals Festival Music England London Dutch Events

3 years, 4 months ago

Summer festival programme torn up after numbers restricted to 750

Dutch News

Festival organisers have described the Dutch government’s decision to allow only small-scale festivals to go ahead in August as ‘yet another huge disappointment’. It’s a really sore day for us.’ A small handful of events will go ahead in the second half of August, including Lulboompop near Oss, which sold exactly 750 tickets for its two days on August 20 …

Festival 750 Visitors

3 years, 4 months ago

Summer festival programme torn up after numbers restricted to 750

Dutch News

Festival organisers have described the Dutch government’s decision to allow only small-scale festivals to go ahead in August as ‘yet another huge disappointment’. It’s a really sore day for us.’ A small handful of events will go ahead in the second half of August, including Lulboompop near Oss, which sold exactly 750 tickets for its two days on August 20 …

Festival 750 Visitors

3 years, 5 months ago

Newcomer DJs struggle to break through due to Covid restrictions

NL Times

Many large events, shows and nightclubs where DJs would typically perform were placed in jeopardy by the re-instated coronavirus measures which the government tightened up on July 9. They are really going down because of that.” Festival organizers are now also increasingly taking the safe route and booking artists that already have a large fan base. Many of the line-ups …

Festival Willemsen Newcomer Djs

3 years, 5 months ago

MPs want to go ahead with national laughing gas ban

NL Times

The majority of parliamentarians have expressed their support for a ban on the recreational use of laughing gas. “If you knew that every weekend children walk into the doctor’s office after they have used nitrous oxide, you would really realize what harmful junk that is,” she stated. At the beginning of April, Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus and State Secretary Paul …

Cabinet Ban Laughing Gas National Laughing

3 years, 5 months ago

Cheers! ‘Stunt’ alcohol promotions banned from July 1

Dutch News

There will be no more ‘two for the price of one’ crates of beer on sale in the Netherlands from next week, whatever the results of the football. The Dutch government has said in a news release that the rules are aimed at ‘preventing alcohol use by young people and countering problematic alcohol use in the Netherlands.’ Promotions such as …

Law Dutch Drink Netherlands Alcohol Drinking Young People

3 years, 5 months ago

Amsterdam to restrict alcohol sales in Red Light District again this summer

NL Times

The sale of alcohol in supermarkets in the Red Light District will be restricted to combat nuisance caused by tourists, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema announced. With more coronavirus measures being lifted, crowds are expected to return to the Red Light District. In the Red Light District, many streets already have a ban on consuming alcohol. Halsema said on Thursday afternoon …

Ban Halsema Red Light District Restrict Alcohol

3 years, 6 months ago

Dutch PM slams Hungary over new anti-LGBT law

NL Times

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has denounced Hungary’s new law intended to ban ‘promotion of homosexuality’, newswire ANP reported. “Yesterday, 10,000 people showed up in Budapest to protest against the hateful amendments that puts a ban on education and advertising that is deemed to “popularize”, or even depict, consensual same-sex conduct or the affirming of one’s gender to children,“ Amnesty …

Law Rutte Hungary Dutch Minister

3 years, 6 months ago

Amsterdam takes measures against crowds in city center

NL Times

With coronavirus restrictions lifting and more and more people being out and about, the city of Amsterdam is taking extra measures to manage crowds and prevent nuisance in the city center. "Visitors who respect Amsterdam and the people of Amsterdam have always been welcome," the city said in a press release. "We do not ant to go back to what …

Amsterdam City City Center

3 years, 7 months ago

Amsterdam lawmakers vote to restrict sale of laughing gas

NL Times

A majority of politicians in the Amsterdam city council have voiced their support for a ban on the sale of laughing gas by catering and hospitality businesses, and also at events. Laughing gas, the common name for nitrous oxide, causes a variety of health problems, like nausea, headache, dizziness, chest pain, impaired vision, confusion and anxiety. Nitrous oxide is like …

Nitrous Oxide Laughing Gas

4 years ago

Ferries from UK banned from sailing to Netherlands: Reports

NL Times

Ferry lines which transport passengers from the United Kingdom across the North Sea to the Netherlands will not be permitted from Monday as the Dutch government attempts to prevent a highly-contagious variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus from spreading through the Dutch population. Rumors began to surface in Dutch media Sunday night that the Cabinet would extend its ban to include …

Dutch Netherlands Ban Travel Passengers

4 years, 1 month ago

Rotterdam, Nijmegen still on track to ban New Year fireworks: NOS

Dutch News

Rotterdam and Nijmegen are among six remaining Dutch towns and cities which have said they plan to make it an offence for members of the public to light fireworks during this year’s New Year celebrations, broadcaster NOS said on Friday afternoon. Earlier it had appeared that 20 local authority areas, including Amsterdam, would ban consumer fireworks this year, but Amsterdam …

Ban Rotterdam Nijmegen

4 years, 2 months ago

Dutch hotels barred from serving alcohol at 8 p.m. closing lockdown loophole

NL Times

Hotel bars and restaurants were forbidden from serving alcohol to hotel guests, effectively closing a loophole in the partial lockdown restrictions implemented on 14 October. The ban did not initially include hotels, which were also told to stop serving alcohol to guests who ordered room service after 8 p.m. Young people in Amsterdam were also reportedly booking cheap hotel rooms …

Hotels Alcohol Restaurant Young People Hotel

4 years, 3 months ago

Three illegal parties broken up; Police pelted with trash in Rotterdam

NL Times

The police put an end to at least three illegal parties in Rotterdam, Beverwijk and Voorhout over the weekend. Around 60 people were at a party on Oostzeedijk Beneden in Rotterdam on Saturday night, a police spokesperson said to the newspaper. The around 80 attendees of the party left without much fuss, with only the DJ resisting when the police …

Party Rotterdam Voorhout

4 years, 3 months ago

Amsterdam postpones New Year's fireworks ban over Covid-19

NL Times

The municipality of Amsterdam decided to postpone the implementation of its ban on consumer fireworks for one year. Due to the coronavirus crisis and its accompanying measures, alternative celebrations cannot be organized effectively, mayor Femke Halsema said in a letter to the city council. She also called it "irresponsible" to ask police and enforcement officers to enforce a ban, given …

Fireworks Ban

4 years, 3 months ago

Bill banning prostitution in the Netherlands to be debated Thursday

NL Times

Ruling party CDA has said it wants to revive attempts to ban prostitution in the Netherlands. CDA parliamentarian Anne Kuik has submitted a proposal to ban the sex work practice, which the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, will debate on Thursday. "Prostitution by definition means inequality," Kuik said to newspaper AD, adding that it is now really …

Cda Kuik Paid Sex

4 years, 4 months ago

Rotterdam shuts 4 catering establishments for breaking Covid rules

NL Times

Three catering establishments and a sports canteen in Rotterdam were closed with immediate effect by order of the municipality after the rules in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus were violated multiple times and after several warnings, RTV Rijnmond reported. The affected businesses are bar and restaurant Noah on Wijnhaven, karaoke bar Fame on Nieuwe Binnenweg, bar Lebbink …

Rijnmond Rotterdam Shuts

4 years, 5 months ago

Amsterdam bans sales of alcohol at weekends in busy tourist areas

Dutch News

Alcohol sales are being restricted at weekends in one of Amsterdam’s busiest tourist areas as part of a package of stricter coronavirus measures in the capital. ‘It is extremely important that people keep their distance from each other, Amsterdammers and international tourists alike, both on the streets and in bars and restaurants,’ said Halsema. ‘A new lockdown is the last …

Tourist

4 years, 5 months ago

Amsterdam bans sales of alcohol at weekends in busy tourist areas

Dutch News

Alcohol sales are being restricted at weekends in one of Amsterdam’s busiest tourist areas as part of a package of stricter coronavirus measures in the capital. ‘It is extremely important that people keep their distance from each other, Amsterdammers and international tourists alike, both on the streets and in bars and restaurants,’ said Halsema. ‘A new lockdown is the last …

Tourist

4 years, 5 months ago

Amsterdam halts Red Light District alcohol sales; Better crowd control planned

NL Times

Amsterdam is banning the sale of alcohol in shops in the Red Light District over the weekend, in an attempt to better control crowds in the popular area. And day trippers and tourists will be urged to avoid crowds with targeted ads on their social media, the local security region Veiligiheidsregio Amsterdam-Amstelland announced on Thursday. The sale of alcohol in …

Social Media Amsterdam Crowd Red Light District

Alcohol sales limited, "vulgar" dancing banned at Summer Carnival in Rotterdam

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