Abuzer van Leeuwen 🇳🇱

Abuzer founded DutchReview a decade ago because he thought expats needed it and wanted to make amends for the Dutch cuisine. He has a Masters in Political Science and IT but somewhere always wanted to study history or good old football. He also a mortgage in the Netherlands and will happily tell you too how to get one. Born and raised in Rotterdam, Abuzer now lives in Leiden but is always longing back to his own international year in Italy.

The Netherlands is going back to Eurovision, without AVROTROS

After sitting out the 2026 contest, the Netherlands will compete at the Eurovision Song Contest in Burgas, Bulgaria next May, with the NPO taking...

Widespread disgust after violent and racist riots in The Hague

Riot police broke up a far-right demonstration at The Hague's Malieveld on Saturday after it turned violent, using a water cannon and pepper spray...

PLNT Leiden is turning 10: Here’s what it’s all about

There's a community in the middle of Leiden where someone is always launching something, pitching something, or quietly panicking over a spreadsheet. We belong...

Your Dutch energy bill jumps €141 next year (and that’s before the actual energy gets pricier)

A typical Dutch household will pay around €89 more for electricity transmission and €52 more for gas in 2027, after regulator ACM released its...

A school in Gouda says no to tracksuits, in the one country where nobody dresses for the job

A secondary school in Gouda has decided that tracksuits, jogging bottoms and football shirts belong on the sofa, not in the classroom, and the...

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