News Netherlands Utrecht: Partial Dutch ban on face-covering clothing takes effect
A new Dutch law has taken effect banning face-covering clothing, including the burqa and niqab worn by conservative Muslim women, on public transportation, in government buildings and at health and education institutions
News Netherlands Utrecht: On First Day of the Partial Ban on Burqas, Dutch Officials Decline to Enforce It
a professor of government at the University of Utrecht. “And for some people on social media, that’s an open invitation to start making life difficult for Muslim women.” Of the Netherlands’ 17 million ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: The Latest: Dutch campers fall ill amid soaring temperatures
... 20 children became ill at a summer camp as temperatures passed 40 degrees Celsius in several areas of the Netherlands. Broadcaster RTV Utrecht reported that the children fell ill in the central ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Let Loose in the Night Woods
The Dutch — it is fair to say — do childhood differently ... The children on the dropping in Austerlitz, not far from Utrecht, walked into the woods, and the smell of pine needles rose from the sandy ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Dutch train commuters like Mount Maunganui-brewed beer
The brewing team at craft brewery Funk Estate was surprised and delighted to find that one of their sour beers is going down well with train travellers in Utrecht. The city is the Netherlands fourth ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Dutch railway to compensate Holocaust survivors
At a ceremony in Utrecht, the head of the Dutch state rail company announced compensation for survivors and families of the 100,000 Holocaust victims sent on Dutch trains to Nazi death camps. Roger ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Queen Maxima of the Netherlands attends an engagement in Utrecht after returning from the UK
Even the rain couldn't bring down Queen Maxima's mood as she honoured her first public engagement right after returning from her a week away to visit the UK and Ireland. The Dutch royal, looking ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Dutch Railway Will Pay Millions to Holocaust Survivors
Image Salo Muller, left, whose parents were both killed in the Holocaust, at a presentation with NS officials in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Wednesday.CreditKoen Van Weel/EPA, via Shutterstock In ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Dutch Cardinal on Gender Ideology: It Sets the World ‘Against the Christian Faith’
Speaking May 16 at the Rome Life Forum, an annual meeting of members of the international pro-life movement, the archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, explained how the ideology, which has spread ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Dutch Film Works Moves into International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
Utrecht-based DFW has previously brokered some sales deals, including one for De Mensen’s buzzy Dutch crime series “Undercover,” which Netflix now has in most global territories. Having ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: How the Dutch Are Closing Their Prisons
Bijlmer Bajes prison, which was closed in 2016 because of low crime rates in Netherlands, was reopened as a refugee center. (Paco Nunez/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) UTRECHT, Netherlands – Walking ...
News Netherlands Utrecht: Flamboyant Dutch populist Thierry Baude is one to watch in this week’s EU elections
Anti-immigration populist surge in wake of deadly Utrecht shooting stuns Dutch politics His senate elections victory speech declaring that the “Owl of Minerva spreads his wings” – referring to the ...
