Dutch people drank less beer in the first three months of the year than in the same period the previous year. Industry association Nederlandse Brouwers claimed this is mainly due to cold weather in the spring. The sector also said that the drop is due to increased excise tax.Beer sales were down 2.4 percent in the first quarter of the year. Household consumption and cafe and restaurant sales both fell.
Willem II will return to the Eredivisie after a two-year absence. The club from Tilburg only needed a draw to confirm promotion, and that is what they got against FC Dordrecht: 1-1. The equalizer scored by Michael de Leeuw came deep into injury time. Belgian manager Peter Maes’s side missed their first chance of promotion last week, drawing 1-1 with FC Groningen. However, they were successful with their second attempt against Dordrecht.
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported that the surface area of nature and forest areas in the Netherlands decreased by around 2.5 percent from 2013 to 2022, or 158 square kilometers. This coincided with an increase in built-up areas of 3.4 percent, or 277 square kilometers. That is land meant for homes, factories, offices, and infrastructure.
A watercolor painting made by Princess Beatrix, presumably in 1950, sold for 8,500 euros at an auction in Wommels, Friesland, earlier this week. The sale was announced on the website of the auction house, Ald Fryslán.The work depicts girls or young women in colorful dresses, and is signed "Trix." She would have been about 12 or 13 years of age when she produced the painting which measures 50.5 by 63 centimeters.
PSV manager Peter Bosz has said he will treat the match against Sparta Rotterdam as any other match, even though the Eindhoven club only needs to avoid defeat to clinch the Eredivisie title. “That is all peripheral matters. I am not thinking about it at all. And I said the same to the people at the club,” the 60-year-old from Apeldoorn said. “I am trying to prepare for it like it was any other game. It is about Sparta. That is what we are talking about,” Bosz added.
The province of Gelderland granted a permit on Friday for the use of a paintball gun against a wolf on the Noord-Veluwe. The province reported that the goal is to teach the wolf that it should not approach people. A wolf that is no longer scared and has been approaching people has been seen popping up around Ermelo. The permit is meant for "a few professionals who have a connection with the area and can be on location quickly," Gelderland reported. The province stated that it is essential that...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has warned against intimating judges or other staff. The ICC claims that individuals are threatening retaliation surrounding specific investigations or rulings, the court wrote in a statement on Friday.The ICC did not disclose the nature of the threats, such as if they have anything to do with the war between Russia and Ukraine, the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, or another matter.
The police arrested a 22-year-old man on Tuesday for allegations of sexually transgressive behavior towards clients at a residential care institution in Breda. The healthcare institution has filed charges against an employee who allegedly committed sexual misconduct with several residents, the police said.The man was arrested after the report was filed. “Due to the privacy of the people involved, we will not be commentating on the investigation at this time,” police said this week.
The VVD and BBB are not worried about curtailing press freedom, not even if PVV enters the new Cabinet. "We have enough confidence in the democracy and the rule of law that it doesn't get that far," said BBB MP Henk Vermeer. The VVD noted that it has always been committed to the freedom and safety of the press. "And we will continue to do so, in whichever political constellation we end up in," said VVD MP Claire Martens.
Former figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra has died at the age of 82, her daughter, Katja Kossmayer, confirmed in a post on Facebook. Dijkstra won an Olympic gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, becoming the first Dutch athlete to ever win a gold medal during the Winter Olympic Games.She also won a silver medal four years earlier, and secured three world titles and five European championships. She was chosen as the female athlete of the year in the Netherlands six times.
Healthcare workers will stop working for two minutes at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday to protest against violence. In these two minutes of silence, they will commemorate an employee of a mental health institution in Heerlen who was stabbed to death at work last month.
The police released dashcam video footage of a wild pursuit where officers chased a suspect on the A16 as he weaved frantically through traffic trying to evade them. He eventually crashed into a drainage ditch, and jumped out of his hatchback into the water before a police officer yanked down the suspect's pants to tangle him up. Drugs were found in the man's vehicle when it was finally searched.