The political crisis in the Netherlands deepened on Wednesday when the country's Queen Beatrix asked for parliament to be dissolved to allow for elections in September. The move comes after the government collapsed in a row over budget cuts.
The Netherlands' outoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose majority in parliament collapsed on Monday after the far right quit in protest at austerity measures, has said he expects a snap election to be held on September 12.
Right-wing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet resigned on Monday after failing to reach agreement on reducing the country's budget, paving the way for new elections.
The Dutch government was on the brink of collapse on Monday after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s (photo) minority coalition failed to reach agreement with the anti-EU Freedom Party on shaving more than €14bn from the budget.
Two trains collided head on just outside the Netherland’s capital Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving dozens injured, at least 15 of them seriously, according to Dutch transportation authorities.
On Sunday Italy's Enrico Gasparotto won the Amstel Gold race, the Netherlands' biggest one-day cycling event. He beat out favourite Philippe Bilbert, who won the race the previous two years.
The Netherland's Laura Dekker,16, became the youngest sailor to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world on Saturday, nearly exactly one year after she embarked on her voyage.
A Dutch court on Friday convicted five ethnic Tamil men on charges that they extorted money from the Sri Lankan diaspora in the Netherlands and laundered money to help finance the separatist Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka.
A 480-million euro budget to supply food to Europe's poorest could be slashed by 80%, the prospect of which has alarmed NGOs and charities. In April, the EU Court of Justice said the programme could only use supplies from EU food stocks. But stocks have fallen dramatically in recent years following reforms in the bloc's farming policies, forcing the use of EU money instead to buy supplies on the markets.
In this week's show, we take a look at what some say is the food of the future. Meats traditionally eaten in the West, such as beef and pork, are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. More farmland is needed to rear the number of cows and pigs required to provide enough meat for all of us, but it's in finite supply. And cow farming isn't good for the environment. So what are the alternatives?
