It’s the last podcast before we head off for our holidays in sunny Spijkenisse. We tell you who won the Christian Democrat leadership election, how many people joined the unemployment queue in June and why neighbours saw red over a green house. In sport, calls grow louder to overturn a ban on singing in football stadiums. And love knows no bounds as campaigners persuade the government to relax travel restrictions for long-distance sweethearts.

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News

Hugo de Jonge scrapes home in CDA leadership election

Future corona lockdowns will be local rather than national

Covid-19 infections rise slightly, some local clusters

Budget day pageantry cancelled for first time since 1904

Dutch government backs down on ‘sweetheart’ visas for long-distance lovers

Netherlands to take Russia to ECHR over MH17 downing

Unemployment rose by unprecedented 74,000 in June

National monument in The Hague will commemorate Srebrenica victims

‘Apple house’ judgment leaves sour taste in Den Helder

Sport

Ban on chanting at football matches ‘impossible to enforce’

Short-track skater Lara van Ruijven dies of autoimmune disease aged 27