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Popular TV host Matthijs van Nieuwkerk temporarily resigns over workplace bullying

Matthijs van Nieuwkerk will temporarily step down from his job, and will immediately depart from public broadcaster BNNVARA. "I notice that many emotions compete for priority: shame for the fear that editors have felt, regret that I literally had blind ambition and therefore crossed borders, sadness about De Wereld Draait Door, my life's work after all," said Van Nieuwkerk. Van …

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The Dutch security service AIVD monitored and tapped the phone of former senate leader René van der Linden because of his ties with people close to Vladimir Putin, the Volkskrant and NRC reported on Saturday. Van der Linden, a former European affairs minister and senator for the Christian Democrats for 16 years, also made several trips to Moscow, the paper …

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Sywert van Lienden and his associates were out for a “commercial adventure” since early in the controversial face mask deal they made with the Ministry of Public Health, the Volkskrant reports based on recordings of conversations they had. “We’ll simply bring that shit to the Netherlands, and we’ll become millionaires,” Van Lienden said in a recorded conversation on 12 April …

As gas prices soar, many people are already stocking up on wood to heat their homes this winter, De Volkskrant reports. Meanwhile, the flow of firewood from Eastern European countries is also tightened this year, because of trade bans and the impact of the war, Joey van Wettum of Gigant told De Volkskrant. Still, Van Wettum reports that turnover has …

More than 200 members of coalition party D66 have called on the leadership to explain why a confidential report into sexual intimidation by a senior lobbyist was apparently kept quiet for a year. The Volkskrant reported at the weekend that the investigation into Frans van Drimmelen, a former chairman of D66’s political academy, found he had ‘stalked, threatened and blackmailed’ …

D66 member Frans van Drimmelen quits over stalking allegations

Prominent D66 member Frans van Drimmelen has temporarily resigned from consultancy firm Droge en Van Drimmelen. This part of the report, which said that Van Drimmelen stalked, threatened, and blackmailed a female colleague, was not included in a report on transgressive behavior within the D66 published last year. "On Saturday, the Volkskrant referred in an article to an investigation by …

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The Brabant psychologist Wim van Dijk gave more than 100 people a drug to help them commit suicide, the psychologist himself said in an interview with the Volkskrant on Saturday. According to the newspaper, it was the first time anyone in the Netherlands admitted to providing people with a drug to commit suicide. Although he invoked his right to remain …

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A group of hackers that attacked the servers of the Overijssel municipality of Hof van Twente and took its backups for ransom, demanded 750 thousand euros from the municipality for the backups to be released, De Volkskrant reported after contact with the hackers. The attack destroyed Hof van Twente's 24 virtual servers and the backups were taken hostage. "It became …