http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/ en Copyright 2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:08:32 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The state-run job centres UWV have been told by social affairs minister Piet Hein Donner to find €35m to help get the long term jobless back to work. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/job_centres_told_to_find_35m.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/job_centres_told_to_find_35m.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:08:32 +0000 The conclusions of a quick investigation into allegations of irregularities at some polling stations in Rotterdam at the local elections earlier this month will now be published on Wednesday, officials say. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/rotterdam_local_election_advic.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/rotterdam_local_election_advic.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:01:38 +0000 2009 was a very good year for foreign investment in the Netherlands, with non-Dutch players putting over €3bn into the economy, despite the economic crisis. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/foreign_investments_boost_empl.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/foreign_investments_boost_empl.php topstory1 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:49:35 +0000 Staff at post and delivery company TNT have voted in favour of a new pay deal which will give them a 0.7% pay rise from January this year but also sanctions the loss of thousands of jobs. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/tnt_workers_vote_in_favour_of.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/tnt_workers_vote_in_favour_of.php topstory2 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:42:31 +0000 Some 48 political parties have registered to take part in the general election on June 9, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/general_election_48_political.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/general_election_48_political.php topstory2 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:34:00 +0000 The Dutch student who joined the Colombian guerrilla movement Farc in 2002 is alive and well, her father told De Pers newspaper on Monday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/dutch_farc_girl_is_alive_and_w.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/dutch_farc_girl_is_alive_and_w.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:48 +0000 The AFM financial service regulator's report into Gerrit Zalm's role in the downfall of DSB Bank last year did not take his other expertise into account, professor Michiel Scheltema, told MPs on Monday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/afm_report_on_zalm_too_limited.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/afm_report_on_zalm_too_limited.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:50:48 +0000 Shares in biotechnology company Pharming fell as much as 20% in Amsterdam on Monday after the company said it wanted to expand its share capital. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/pharming_shares_fall_on_share.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/pharming_shares_fall_on_share.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:49:36 +0000 Dutch industrial exports rose 11% in January 2010, compared with a year ago, the national statistics office CBS said on Monday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/exports_get_off_to_good_start.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/exports_get_off_to_good_start.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:48:52 +0000 The postcode lottery organisation has been told to stop offering participants reductions on their health insurance by health minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Nos tv reports on Monday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/lottery_told_to_stop_health_in.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/lottery_told_to_stop_health_in.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:47:58 +0000 The names of home affairs minister Guusje ter Horst and integration minister Eberhard van der Laan are among the most often mentioned as possible candidates to succeed Job Cohen as Amsterdam mayor. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/cohen_gone_who_will_be_amsterd.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/cohen_gone_who_will_be_amsterd.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:15:27 +0000 Rabobank is to stop its Bizner internet banking unit, set up in 2007 for small and medium-sized firms. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/rabobank_stops_bizner_internet.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/rabobank_stops_bizner_internet.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:00:20 +0000 The Netherlands is continuing to break EU conventions by leaving families with children whose requests for asylum have been rejected to fend for themselves on the streets, the Volkskrant reports on Monday. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/stop_evicting_illegal_families.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/stop_evicting_illegal_families.php topstory1 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:26:26 +0000 thrashed number two PSV Eindhoven 4-1. ]]> http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/premiership_race_heats_up_as_a.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/premiership_race_heats_up_as_a.php topstory2 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:16:29 +0000 Tussen Kunst & Kitsch, a Dutch version of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.]]> http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/tv_show_brooch_sold_for_120000.php http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/03/tv_show_brooch_sold_for_120000.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:09:53 +0000