Tag: Netherlands

• Thursday, March 16th 2017 - 05:58 UTC

  Relief in Europe: “Netherlands said No to the wrong kind of populism”, Dutch PM Rutte claims victory

  

  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday claimed a dominating parliamentary election victory over anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, who failed the year's first litmus test for populism in Europe. Provisional results with over half the votes counted suggested Rutte's party won 32 seats in the 150-member legislature, 13 more than Wilders' party, which took only third place with 19 seats. The surging CDA Christian Democrats claimed 20.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2016 - 11:16 UTC

  Partial ban on burqa wearing in public sees first green light in Netherlands Parliament

  

  Members of Parliament on Tuesday voted to ban the Islamic full-face burqa from public places in The Netherlands, such as schools, hospitals and public transport. It was the latest such move in a European country.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2015 - 10:40 UTC

  Ecuadorian international desperate to play regularly

  

  On Friday Ecuador kick-off their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign with a tough game against Argentina in Buenos Aires, and 24 year old RENATO IBARRA is hoping that he will be selected to play from the very beginning of the game and not have to sit on the bench as a substitute which has been his fate for sometime now.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 04:18 UTC

  Bird flu highly contagious H5N8 strain in England, Netherlands and Germany

  

  Bird flu on a duck farm in northern England is the highly contagious H5N8 strain, the same form of the virus already discovered in Germany and the Netherlands, Britain's farm ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

• Monday, July 28th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Dutch government releases former Venezuelan general retained on DEA request

  

  The Dutch government released a former Venezuelan general who was detained on US drug charges when he arrived in Aruba to serve as his country's consul on the Dutch Caribbean island, sending him home Sunday night and defusing a diplomatic fight with its neighbor.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 09:53 UTC

  Holland has a king for the first time since 1890 and Argentina Queen Maxima

  

  King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century Tuesday as his mother Beatrix abdicated to end a 33-year reign. His popular Argentine born wife became Queen Maxima.

• Saturday, August 18th 2012 - 05:45 UTC

  Euro zone June trade surplus was the highest since 1999

  

  The Euro zone trade surplus hit 14.9bn Euros in June up from 200m Euros a year ago. The surplus was the highest since the European Union's statistics agency began collecting data in 1999.