DutchNews podcast – The Breaking Brabant Edition – Week 15
It’s a week of shattered illusions on the podcast as a former CDA politician in Brabant is jailed for his part in the Netherlands’ biggest ever drugs farm and a Jeff Koons sculpture meets an explosive fate in an Amsterdam church. Also: is the housing market overheating, why did a singing road lose its voice, and how did hawks and sea eagles become embroiled in a treetop turf war?
Top story
Former politician jailed for hosting Netherlands’ biggest drugs lab on his farm
News
House prices approach 2008 record levels
First-time buyers turning to ‘bank of mum and dad’
Dutch government waters down ‘Big Brother’ tapping law after ‘no’ vote
Jeff Koons artwork accidentally destroyed by visitor
Residents’ protests silence musical road in Friesland
Nest war breaks out between hawks and sea eagles
Sport
Dutch women’s team close in on first World Cup qualification
Hamilton and Verstappen mend fences after Bahrain collision (The Guardian)
Discusion: ‘Cocaine yogis’ and the Dutch drugs trade
Netherlands ‘needs to stop romanticising drug taking’ (Nieuwsuur, Dutch)
Justice minister ’embarrassed’ by scale of Dutch drug production (Telegraaf, Dutch)
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