Podcast: The Urk Kids Get Stoned In The Biblical Sense Edition
Dick Schoof heads to Brussels for a defence spending summit with orders to pull the emergency brake on the Eurobonds train. Back in The Hague, the PVV holds its own prisons minister hostage over her plans to solve the overcrowding problem in jails. And the education minister wants to attract foreign talent to universities that are cutting down on international students and English-language classes. Intelligence agencies are pushing the boundaries by gathering information in secret for law enforcement agencies, watchdogs warn. The construction sector warns that housebuilding plans are being hamstrung by the nitrogen crisis. The skating season ends with a Dutch gold rush in Norway and Max Verstappen makes a splash as he starts his bid for a fifth Formula One world title in Melbourne.
Ophef of the week: Royal couple fly into controversy on state visit to Kenya
It’s the pits: Urk playground turns out less than peachy
News
JA21 tables second motion against borrowing to rearm Europe
Coalition parties agree to back European defence plan, with conditions
Yesilgöz: Netherlands needs to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP
Confidence in cabinet slips to 16%, VVD voters are most critical
Prisons minister faces tough debate over plan to release inmates early
Agema clashes with MPs, including her own PVV, over health budget (NOS)
Education minister sets up special fund to attract top scientists from abroad
Tapping requests up by 30%, watchdog concerned about use of powers
Dutch government even slower to answer freedom of information requests
Measles outbreaks reported at primary schools in four Dutch cities
Nitrogen emissions undermine construction of 244,000 new homes
Dutch villages shrink as locals leave, but some are fighting back
Amsterdam has Europe’s highest levels of drugs in waste water
Dutch move back up to fifth place in annual world happiness survey
Sport
Dutch women dominate speed skating world championships
Netherlands draw 2-2 with Spain in Nations League quarter-final first leg
Norris beats Verstappen to victory in dramatic opening Grand Prix (Formula1.com)
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