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The Tulips Are Cancelled Edition - Week 23 - 2023
It's a bad week for European connections as the eurozone slips into recession and Eurostar trains to Amsterdam face being suspended for seven months.…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Pole Star Horse-Trading Edition - Week 22 - 2023
The new Senate is sworn in after the coalition parties emerge as the winners of the three-dimensional game of horse trading for the final seats. But …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Flemings and Flamingos Edition - Week 21 - 2023
Amsterdam bans smoking joints in public in the latest stage of the capital's 12-step plan to kick its drug tourism dependency. The political agenda i…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Ninja Accountants Edition - Week 20 - 2023
Brabant is the unlikely setting this week for a tale of industrial espionage running from Greece to Moscow via Paris. The national audit office takes…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Vultures and Vermeers Edition - Week 19 - 2023
Rotterdam's runaway vulture is bound for a Mediterranean island retreat after startling the owner of a house in Leipzig by turning up beside his pond…
3 years, 4 months ago
The War, Peace and Parking Charges Edition – Week 18 – 2023
On the day when the Dutch commemorate their war dead, the president of Ukraine jetted in to give a sobering reminder that wars are not just for the h…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Unheard Kaasschaaf Edition - Week 17 - 2023
Prime Minister Mark Rutte once again apologised to the people of Groningen for how they have been treated by the government in the past decades and p…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Badgers and Brothels Edition - Week 16 - 2023
The government's woes keep piling up as squatting badgers throw a spanner into the works of their efforts to house refugees. Talks with farmers' grou…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Wombats and Meerkats Edition - Week 15 - 2023
French president Emmanuel Macron was confronted by protests and tough questions on his relations with China on his state visit to The Hague, but the …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Axis of Trash Edition - Week 13 - 2023
A carousel of rubbish this week as Amsterdam imports 900 tonnes of waste from Rome while launching a campaign to keep out trashed British tourists. M…
3 years, 5 months ago