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The University of Twente is bilingual. Photo: DutchNews.nl International students may be important to the education system and economy, but the balance has been ‘distorted’ by the shortage of housing, overfull lecture theatres and the amount of additional help they need, education minister Robbert Dijkraaf said on Tuesday. MPs were debating the need to limit

CDA MP Raymond Knops is quitting parliament to chair a defence lobby group. Photo: Sebastiaan ter Burg/Wikipedia The Netherlands has recorded its lowest ever score on the annual corruption index published by Transparency International, but remains one of the world’s least corrupt nations. The score of 80 is two points lower than last year and

Protesters at a climate demonstration. Photo: DutchNews.nl The Netherlands’ human rights watchdog has said the right to demonstrate is ‘under severe strain’ after 768 protesters were arrested for taking part in a motorway blockade at the weekend. The College voor de Rechten van de Mens said the preventive arrest of six activists in dawn raids

Immigration control at Schiphol airport. Photo: Depositphotos.com The Netherlands is one of the European countries with the highest number of British citizens ordered to leave since Brexit, according to data by the European statistical office Eurostat. But the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) told Dutch News the number of people who actually had to go

Rutte and Macron after their talks. Photo: Lex van Lieshout ANP The Netherlands and France agree on how to tackle migration and limit the number of asylum seekers, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and French president  Emmanuel Macron said after talks in The Hague in the run-up to next week’s European summit. Rutte, under pressure

Photo: DutchNews.nl A total ban on so-called gay conversion therapy would breach the constitutional right to religious freedom, the Council of State has said in an opinion. A coalition of six parties drawn from the cabinet and the opposition put a bill before parliament last February outlawing the practice, with fines of up to €22,500

Photo: Depositphotos.com Pro-Russian hackers are believed to have launched cyberattacks against hospitals in the Netherlands and other European countries as revenge for their support for Ukraine. Z-Cert, an organisation that specialises in digital security in the healthcare sector, said Groningen’s UMCG teaching hospital had been hit by a DDoS attack that had taken down its

Mark Rutte and president Emmanuel Macron during a Nato meeting in Madrid in June last year. Photo: AP/Andrea Comas The war in Ukraine, migration and the renewable energy transition are expected to be on the agenda when French president Emmanuel Macron visits Mark Rutte in The Hague later on Monday. The two countries have strengthened

Photo: Depositphotos.com The Dutch consumer and markets authority ACM has vetoed the proposed takeover of media company Talpa by RTL, saying it would create a company with a ‘too dominant’ market position. ‘The merged entity of RTL and Talpa will become too powerful in the areas of television advertising and the distribution of television channels,’

Tasos Douvikas scored a hat-trick and set up the other two as Utrecht drew 5-5 at AZ. Photo: ANP/Ed van de Pol Feyenoord stay on top of the Eredivisie despite being held to a draw in Twente as nearest rivals AZ Alkmaar also shared the points with Utrecht in a 10-goal thriller. The results mean