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Amsterdam has been hardly out of the headlines this week, after trouble before, during and after a football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, with politicians at home and abroad pouring oil on troubled waters. Oil giant Shell, meanwhile, won the return match in its ongoing legal battle with environmental campaign group Milieudefensie.

Health insurers publish their premiums for next year with few surprises and, surprise surprise in Gelderland, there have been a lot more attacks by wolves this year. And with the international distance skating championships starting, we explain the wonderful world of the team pursuit, the allround and why Jetta Leerdam wears black.

Ophef of the week
NPO1 and EO make it clearer that Black Out is ficticious (AD, Dutch)

News
Anti-Semitism passport plan is discriminatory and polarising

Eyewitnesses film Maccabi fans causing trouble

Schoof pulls out of UN climate summit after Amsterdam violence

Amsterdam football violence was down to a “poisonous cocktail”

Schoof cuts short EU summit, Israeli minister heads for NL

Youths on scooters targeted Maccabi supporters in hit and runs

Israel slams violence against Maccabi fans in Amsterdam

Multi-millionaire takes over as Dutch tax minister

Dutch to bring in extra border checks on December 9

Shell wins appeal in landmark greenhouse gas case

Finance minister prepared to ditch BTW hike on culture and sport

Health insurance premiums to rise by around €11 next year

Sharp rise in wolf attacks on Dutch farm livestock

Sport
Ajax draw at Twente to end winning run, PSV five points clear

The Dutch dominate speed skating, what you need to know