Society

Cocaine in the Netherlands: everything you need to know 2025

Cocaine in the Netherlands is available, semi-popular, and relatively affordable. In fact, the drug and country have...

A Sexscraper? Here are Amsterdam’s plans for a new Red Light District

Amsterdam's iconic Red Light District is notorious for attracting millions of tourists to the capital's streets —...

The Dutch built cities on sinking land: how will this fare with climate change?

The Netherlands literally means "low country" and for good reason too: only about 50% of the country...

Who is Geert Wilders? 7 questions about the controversial Dutch election winner

The news of Geert Wilders’s victory in the recent Dutch elections has been making headlines worldwide.  To many...

How did the Netherlands become the first country without stray dogs?

According to the World Health Organisation, around 200 million stray dogs worldwide. Impressively, not one of them...

Four ways the Dutch and Swedes are the same (but different)

The Dutch and the Swedes have a few things in common, but of course, they're not quite...

Joran van der Sloot: the story of a Dutch killer

How did an 18-year-old boy from the Dutch city of Arnhem become the number one criminal on...

Tikkie etiquette: the do’s and don’ts of asking for money in the Netherlands

When you think of the Netherlands, what’s the first thing that springs to mind? Is it windmills,...