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Another week, another round of infighting and backtracking in the coalition, this time over an eye-watering 0.4% increase in the rate of VAT. The Drents Museum is the reluctant star of an international heist drama stretching from Bucharest to Heerhugowaard. Calls for a fireworks ban grow louder following another rise in injuries and attacks on emergency service workers at New Year. Feyenoord fans are banned from Lille and spared the humiliation of watching their team go down 6-1. And we probe the mystery of the missing wolves.

Ophef of the week: KNMI fly into legal storm after releasing weather radar app

Flamingos add splash of colour to winter in Harderwijk (Omroep Gelderland)

Cliches abound in US comedy set on Dutch army base

News

Ministers consider 0.4% VAT increase to close budget shortfall

VVD launches programme to “back the working middle class”

Police release photographs of Drents Museum heist suspects

Three arrested for Assen museum theft, gold helmet still missing

Police call for information on stolen car used in Assen museum raid

Fewer Europeans and Indians moved to Netherlands in 2024

New Year fireworks cause record number of eye injuries

MPs to call for firework ban following rise in New Year violence

A quarter of the Netherlands’ known wolves have vanished

Sport

Champions League: PSV shock Slot while Feyenoord collapse in Lille

AZ, Ajax and Twente all progress to Europa League play-offs

Five new shareholders save troubled football club Vitesse Arnhem