A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen in an overnight smash-and-grab raid on a museum that was closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police and the museum said Monday.
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A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that a TV news program does not have to correct itself for paraphrasing racially charged remarks made by a far-right politician.
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Differences in countries’ Covid-19 response measures mean that in one shop on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium, you can buy baby clothes but not men’s pajamas.
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Hearings in the trial of four men accused of downing a Malaysian Airlines plane and killing everyone on board briefly resumed Monday in a nearly empty Netherlands courtroom, as the coronavirus outbreak restricts judicial systems around the world.
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It’s tulip season in The Netherlands but this year growers are destroying millions of flowers a day, in unprecedented scenes as the coronavirus pandemic has cut demand.
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A Dutch human rights court held Wednesday that by charging women more than men, hairdressers are guilty of discrimination.
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Preliminary hearings wrapped up Tuesday in the Dutch murder trial of four men accused of helping to shoot down a Malaysian Airlines plane six years ago, killing all 298 people on board.
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For 19 minutes before a silent courtroom Monday, a Dutch prosecutor read the names of all 298 victims of downed flight MH17 during the opening of a trial of four men accused of being involved in the crime.
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Aphrodisiac supplements are not food, an adviser to Europe’s highest court said Thursday, in a case over retail sales tax and a Dutch sex shop.
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Surrounded by armed guards, a nondescript office building in the outskirts of Amsterdam held the first preliminary hearing Thursday in a criminal conspiracy case involving 17 suspects charged with five murders.
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A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday ordered Russia to pay $50 billion to former shareholders of oil and gas giant Yukos, the latest development in a complicated, 15-year legal battle.
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Dutch military training operations in Iraq have been called off, after the Iraqi parliament voted to expel foreign military personnel in the wake of a U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s top general.
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There was crying, cheering and applause Friday as the Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch government must reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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E-books are not physical objects and therefore cannot be resold in Europe without the consent of the author, the European Court of Justice held Thursday.
Read moreEmbattled Dutch deputy finance minister Menno Snel resigned Wednesday after mishandling a child care benefit scandal.
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Dutch farmers can protest emissions cuts but they cannot block the country’s food supply ahead of Christmas, a court in the Netherlands ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA Polish man learned a valuable lesson at the European Court of Justice on Thursday: When you sell your car, call the DMV and remove your name from the registration before you turn over the keys.
Read moreDutch prosecutors on Monday accused Russia of allowing a suspect in the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet to return to rebel-held eastern Ukraine in defiance of an extradition agreement.
Read moreWading into a tangled multinational social security dispute, a European Court of Justice magistrate said Tuesday that Dutch companies who recruited, employed and paid Dutch truck drivers made available by a Cyprus-based fleet manager are the employers of the drivers for the purposes of social security – not the Cypriot business.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and a Cameroon teenager advocating for peace in Africa were jointly awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize on Thursday.
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