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Dutch MP will propose banning children under 15 from using social media
1 week ago

Dutch MP will propose banning children under 15 from using social media

NL Times  

Dutch political party D66 is advocating for a minimum age of 15 for social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. “Tech giants are harming children’s health because social media is deliberately designed to be addictive,” said D66 parliamentarian Hanneke van der Werf, according to RTL." “The Netherlands doesn’t let cigarette manufacturers determine and enforce age restrictions,” Van der …

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Netherlands' landfills for sludge rapidly filling up
4 weeks ago

Netherlands' landfills for sludge rapidly filling up

NL Times  

The PFAS pollution in Dutch ports and rivers is so great that landfills for contaminated sludge are filling up much faster than expected, according to research by Trouw. Rijkswaterstaat warned that building new underwater landfills could easily take ten years. Since then, twice as much sludge has been entering the two Rijkswaterstaat landfills in the Ketelmeer on the Maasvlakte and …

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Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons
4 months ago

Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons

Dutch News  

The Dutch advertising standards authorities has ticked off environmental campaign group Greenpeace for exaggerating the impact of eating meat in a ready-to-use package of lessons aimed at primary school children, Dutch media have reported. The lessons, which state that “animals eat 50% of the harvest, so there is less food for people”, should be seen as advertising because they put …

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Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons
4 months ago

Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons

Dutch News  

The Dutch advertising standards authorities has ticked off environmental campaign group Greenpeace for exaggerating the impact of eating meat in a ready-to-use package of lessons aimed at primary school children, Dutch media have reported. The lessons, which state that “animals eat 50% of the harvest, so there is less food for people”, should be seen as advertising because they put …

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Sending nudes has become common, also among adults
5 months ago

Sending nudes has become common, also among adults

NL Times  

Sending nude photos is increasingly commonplace, and not just among teenagers, according to an online panel study with 9,000 participants from 12 countries. Almost half of the Dutch respondents, aged 16 to 34, said that they sometimes received nudes from someone they were dating or chatting with. Nearly 20 percent of Dutch respondents said they have nude photos of themselves. …

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Dutch shipping companies won't be prosecuted for exploiting North Korean workers
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch shipping companies won't be prosecuted for exploiting North Korean workers

NL Times  

Dutch shipping companies that may have profited from exploiting North Korean workers won’t see any consequences. La Strada International, a European platform of human rights NGOs, previously filed a complaint against several Dutch companies that had ships and parts of ships built at a Polish shipyard that exploited around 80 North Koreans between 2003 and 2018. La Strada International accused …

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Jehovah’s Witnesses expelled a member for criticising child sex abuse policy
1 year ago

Jehovah’s Witnesses expelled a member for criticising child sex abuse policy

NL Times  

The Jehovah’s Witnesses expelled one of their members from the church community because he criticized how the community deals with the sexual abuse of children, Trouw reports. The member involved is Bart van Gasteren from Oss, who tried to improve the position of sexual abuse victims from inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses, according to the newspaper. But, according to critical members, …

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Less plastic in oceans than assumed: Dutch researchers
1 year, 4 months ago

Less plastic in oceans than assumed: Dutch researchers

NL Times  

The extent of the plastic soup in the oceans may be much smaller than assumed for the past two decades. Estimates ranged from 50 million tons to 300 million tons of plastic waste floating in the oceans. According to them, rivers, in particular, bring much less plastic to the ocean than previously thought. The previous plastic soup estimates were based …

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Netherlands hit hard by EU-wide medicine shortage
1 year, 8 months ago

Netherlands hit hard by EU-wide medicine shortage

NL Times  

The entire European Union is facing a shortage of certain medicines, but the Netherlands is hit extra hard. The Netherlands is listed among all 15 shortages currently registered by the European Medicines Agency. According to a study by the European organization of pharmaceutical companies PGEU, half of EU countries dealt with more considerable medicine shortages in 2022 than in 2021. …

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Regions outside Randstad against limiting international students
1 year, 10 months ago

Regions outside Randstad against limiting international students

NL Times  

Regions outside the Randstad are very worried about plans to limit the number of international students. Educational institutions and businesses in Limburg, Zeeland, Twente, Groningen, and Friesland benefit greatly from international students and experience much less of the problems that occur in the Randstad, Trouw reports. Under increasing pressure from parliament, Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf is working on a bill to …

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Anti-depressants, anxiety meds messing with water life in Dutch canals, lakes
1 year, 10 months ago

Anti-depressants, anxiety meds messing with water life in Dutch canals, lakes

NL Times  

High concentrations of anti-depressants and anxiety inhibitors pose a risk to water life in Dutch ditches, canals, and lakes, according to research by Maastricht University, the RIVM, and other scientists. These medicines are so common in Dutch surface water that they are affecting aquatic life’s behaviors, Trouw reports. “The substances carbamazepine, oxazepam, and fluoxetine are regularly found” in the surface …

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Amsterdam working on monument to honor WWII "comfort women"
1 year, 11 months ago

Amsterdam working on monument to honor WWII "comfort women"

NL Times  

The municipality of Amsterdam and investigative journalist Griselda Molemans are working together on a monument to honor “comfort women” - women who the Japanese occupiers forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II. Japan is against monuments honoring “comfort women” because, according to the Japanese government, the women were not forced to work as sex slaves. I …

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Dutch support for Syrian opposition was highly risky and unclear: report
2 years ago

Dutch support for Syrian opposition was highly risky and unclear: report

Dutch News  

The Dutch government took significant risks with its 2015 support programme for opposition groups in Syria, according to a government commission under the leadership of a former army commander. The foreign affairs ministry ‘punched well above its weight’ with the non-lethal assistance programme, which aimed to help moderate groups in Syria, the report said. The programme, which cost an initial …

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Dutch support for Syrian opposition was highly risky and unclear: report
2 years ago

Dutch support for Syrian opposition was highly risky and unclear: report

Dutch News  

The Dutch government took significant risks with its 2015 support programme for opposition groups in Syria, according to a government commission under the leadership of a former army commander. The foreign affairs ministry ‘punched well above its weight’ with the non-lethal assistance programme, which aimed to help moderate groups in Syria, the report said. The programme, which cost an initial …

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Netherlands sees first official heat wave in two years, municipalities unprepared
2 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands sees first official heat wave in two years, municipalities unprepared

NL Times  

For the first time in two years, there is an official heat wave in the Netherlands –– but municipalities are underprepared for extreme heat, according to Trouw. At 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, a temperature of 25.0 degrees was measured in De Bilt, which means that the conditions for a heat wave have been met, Weeronline reports. For an official heat …

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Dutch companies earning millions from Qatar World Cup
2 years, 4 months ago

Dutch companies earning millions from Qatar World Cup

NL Times  

The Dutch business community earned millions on construction projects around the World Cup in Qatar this coming winter, Trouw reports based on its own research. Several thousand migrant workers have died since World Cup preparations started in the country, according to human rights organizations. Frijns is also involved in constructing a new city with the World Cup Stadium, for about …

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Dutch gov’t ordered 840,000 Novavax Covid jabs; Only 1,000 shots used
2 years, 8 months ago

Dutch gov’t ordered 840,000 Novavax Covid jabs; Only 1,000 shots used

NL Times  

The Netherlands purchased 840,000 doses of the Novavax vaccine against Covid-19 for approximately 15 million euros, but nobody seems to want the protein-based vaccine. The government purchased the Novavax vaccines as an alternative for people who don't want to get an mRNA vaccine or vector vaccine against the coronavirus because the techniques behind those are still young. But since March …

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Noise pollution underestimated in aviation cost-benefit analysis: Health Services
2 years, 10 months ago

Noise pollution underestimated in aviation cost-benefit analysis: Health Services

NL Times  

Noise pollution from air traffic is seriously underestimated in research into the costs of aviation, health service umbrella organization GGD GHOR Nederland said in an "urgent appeal" to Minister Mark Harbers of Infrastructure. According to the GGDs, air traffic noise causes "serious nuisance and sleep disturbance even at the WHO limit values." It chose to only count noise pollution from …

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Rotterdam takes hard stance against benefit fraudsters
2 years, 11 months ago

Rotterdam takes hard stance against benefit fraudsters

NL Times  

Nearly a quarter of all benefits fraud cases in 2021 came from Rotterdam, making the municipality the Dutch front-runner, Trouw reported. Out of the 579 appeals filed in the category of social assistance benefits last year, 133 came from Rotterdam, according to the Central Appeals Council. Last year, Rotterdam demanded sums ranging between 4,000 and 22,000 euros back from 20 …

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Vulnerable young people turned to alcohol, weed during Covid pandemic
3 years ago

Vulnerable young people turned to alcohol, weed during Covid pandemic

NL Times  

Vulnerable young people smoked more cannabis, drank more alcohol, and used more laughing gas during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Antenne Region Monitor 2020-2021. For the Antenne Region Monitor, researchers interviewed youth workers about at-risk young people between 16 and 28. Instead, vulnerable young people turned to agents with a more soothing effect. Laughing gas is mainly used by …

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Disappointing test figures show students are still struggling to get back into school-mode
3 years, 1 month ago

Disappointing test figures show students are still struggling to get back into school-mode

NL Times  

Poor results of the first "normal" test week of this academic year show that kids are still having a hard time getting back into the swing of things at school. "The test period in November is usually not the best of the year," rector Jan-Paul Beekman of the Spinoza Lyceum in Amsterdam said to Trouw. Rector Wim van de Eshof …

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Murders not affected by drop in crime during lockdown
3 years, 4 months ago

Murders not affected by drop in crime during lockdown

NL Times  

The coronavirus pandemic and the social restrictions that came with it resulted in a decrease in most forms of crime in the Netherlands. Other countries also saw that the pandemic reduced crimes like theft, robbery and burglary, but not the number of murders. An international team of researchers, led by Amy Nivette from Utrecht University, studied the crime rates during …

Netherlands Lockdown Crime Figures
Pandemic resulting in fewer buses; Some routes to be scrapped
3 years, 4 months ago

Pandemic resulting in fewer buses; Some routes to be scrapped

NL Times  

Despite coronavirus support from the national government, public transport companies are struggling under the consequences of the pandemic and the work-from-home advice that came with it. Fewer passengers mean less income, forcing provinces and transport companies to cut schedules for city and regional buses, Trouw reports. There will also be considerably fewer buses in the cities of Tilburg, Eindhoven, and …

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Kids still at risk of deportation, despite extended children's pardon
3 years, 6 months ago

Kids still at risk of deportation, despite extended children's pardon

NL Times  

Over a hundred child asylum seekers who have been living in the Netherlands for five or more years are still litigating against the rejection of their residency permits, despite the Dutch government extending the children's pardon in 2019. In 2019, after a great deal of political unrest and wrangling, the Dutch government decided to extend the 2013 children's pardon for …

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