Lea Shamaa 🇺🇸🇱🇧

Lea has a passion for writing and sharing new ideas with the world. She enjoys film photography, Wes Anderson movies, fictional books and jazz music. She came to the Netherlands in 2019 for her media studies and has fallen in love with the country and its culture ever since. She loves to ride her bicycle in the city but also feels the need to overtake everyone on the bike lane (she's working on it).

Sick of plastic: Netherlands to ban single-use plastic cups and meal wrapping

Tired of ordering meals and receiving them wrapped to the brim in plastic packaging? Well, you're in luck because the Netherlands plans to ban...

Many Dutch companies are not disclosing their energy-saving measures

While it's been required by law since 1993, a large proportion of Dutch companies simply aren’t bothered to say whether or not they are...

No sanctions for oligarchs: Dutch banks safekeeping billions of Russian assets

The Central Bank of the Netherlands (De Nederlandsche Bank) has €80 billion worth of Russian assets, yet has only frozen about €200 million of...

More wind energy for the Netherlands: cabinet to double offshore wind turbines

The Dutch government is planning on expanding the North Sea wind farms by adding between 750 and 800 wind turbines. This would increase the...

Terrace time: sunny weather streak continues in the Netherlands

The last few days have been getting warmer and that means one thing — spring is finally making its comeback to the lowlands! What’s even...

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