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Topic: netherlands

WA voters repel the tide of Trump-mania, but Geert Wilders will be the real test

Europe

Mar 13, 2017

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The Dutch have a reputation for being practical and level-headed, but shock and grief over MH17 run deep, writes <b>Priya de Langen</b>.

Dutch grieve while ‘life goes on’

Europe

Jul 25, 2014

4

The collapse yesterday of the Netherlands government is being spun mainly as a story about differences on how to deal with Europe's economic troubles.

Far right claims a scalp in the Netherlands

Europe

Apr 24, 2012

8

The lower house of the Netherlands Parliament voted overwhelmingly last night to ban the slaughter of livestock without stunning it first, removing an exemption that has allowed Jews and Muslims to butcher animals, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.

Netherlands Parliament prohibits slaughter without stunning

Europe

Jun 30, 2011

Geert Wilders, the peroxide blond leader of the PVV, the Freedom Party, has become the bete noire of Dutch politics, and a hero to crazed right-wingers everywhere around the world.

Rundle does Amsterdam: right winger Wilders, the canary in the coalmine of European politics

Europe

Jun 08, 2010

3

So the Netherlands is about to enter another Afghanistan-centred election campaign, unless Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s skeleton government can stop the downhill slide and find new coalition partners -- lots of them, writes <b>Ian Rogers</b>.

Skeleton government in Netherlands after marathon meeting

Europe

Feb 22, 2010

Europe's "dirty secret" is that four non-nuclear states -- Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands -- have nuclear bombs and air forces capable of dropping them, reports <em>TIME</em>. Is it time for this Cold War anachronism to end?

Europe’s secret nukes

Europe

Dec 03, 2009

The Dutch government is planning to spend €4m to pay the salaries of 60 young journalists across the Netherlands while the industry struggles in the financial crisis.

Dutch Government to pay young journos’ salary

Print

May 15, 2009

24 Dutch troops in Afghanistan have been suspended following a refusal to follow orders in what has been described as the first “mutiny” of the conflict, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.

Troops mutiny in an Afghanistan campaign first

Politics

Oct 09, 2008

2

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