Bad News from the Netherlands

  Official data from the public health agency RIVM show that 102 people died from COVID 19 in the week ending Sept 29.  That was three times more than the 33 who died during the previous w...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/09/dutch-covid-deaths-tripled-in-week.html

  More than 8000 people have tested positive for the Corona virus in the last week.That was said by the RIVM Health Institute on Tuesday in its weekly update. People in their twenties accou...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/09/more-than-8000-new-corona-infections-in.html

Judith Frishman has presented her departure lecture as Professor of Jewish Studies at Leiden University. The University is now cancelling that Professorship. She mentioned that she has frequently...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/09/leiden-university-cancels-professorship.html

  A recent poll shows that 66% of the Dutch population no longer consider Minister Ferd Grapperhaus (Justice and Security) credible.  That is because there were major transgressions of the...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/09/majority-of-dutch-minister-of-justice.html

In the past week, Coronavirus cases in the Netherlands rose to an 11 week high.  Most cases are being reported in the Rotterdam region, very few in the three northern provinces.  Half of the p...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/08/opposition-against-government-corona.html

The National Statistics Agency (CBS) said that the number of people who have died in The Netherlands from Covid-19 may be up to 100% higher than the official figures. CBS has introduced a ne...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/national-statistics-agency-perhaps-100.html

Israeli organization NGO Monitor says that OXFAM Novib annually receives tens of millions of Dutch tax money.  It is likely that part of that is transferred to the Palestinian UAWC organizat...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/does-netherlands-continue-indirectly-to.html

In 2017, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a container with weapons, ammunition and communication equipment to Tripoli. It was meant for the special military police unit which guard...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/in-2017-dutch-weapons-probably-fell.html

Twenty eight Dutch tourists arriving in Greece did not fill in their health declarations in time.  In this form the arriving passengers were required to declare where they had been in the past ...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/greece-refuses-entry-to-28-dutch.html

Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok (VVD) and the Minister for International Trade and Development Collaboration Sigrid Kaag  (D66) have informed parliament that the two terrorist w...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/two-palestinian-terrorist-suspects-have.html

UK daily, The Telegraph claims that the Dutch have replaced Britain as Europe’s top troublemaker. It writes that "Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has taken on the traditional, time honored...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/uks-telegraph-dutch-europes-top.html

At the EU Corona virus summit, French president Emanuel Macron accused Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of taking Brexit Britain's obstructive role at EU summits. This happened when the discu...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/french-president-accuses-dutch-of.html

The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority has said that they would fine a store selling wine from the West-Bank city of Hebron that is labeled as "Made in Israel". The inspectors visi...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/inspection-may-fine-store-selling-wine.html

The Dutch Ministers of Agriculture Carola Schouten and the Interior Kajsa Olongren, have complained to the Police about the flood of hate messages against them in the closed Facebook group o...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/ministers-complain-to-police-about-hate.html

A process is starting against the motor club Caloh Wagoh. A large number of the club members is suspected of underworld murders and failed attempt to murder. The prosecution says that the m...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/suspects-of-unprecedented-murders-on.html

Deputy Minister of Finance Hans Vijlbrief has sent a letter to parliament about tax payments in total of 155 Dutch multinationals. These companies in 2016 had total sales of 225 billion Euro...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/dutch-multinationals-pay-less-than-11.html

The Dutch police has discovered sea-containers that had been converted in a makeshift prison and soundproofed torture chamber. It was set up by members of the increasingly violent Dutch cri...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/dutch-police-discovers-torture-chamber.html

The national Social Cultural and Planning Bureau (SCP) says that the government needs to invest in mental health care as it expects an increase in mental health problems. The SCP says that pe...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/coronavirus-expected-to-cause-increase.html

Farmers have been protesting for many months against Government measures. Most recently they are angry about agriculture minister Carola Schouten’s intention to ban them from adding protei...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/angry-farmers-block-access-to-eindhoven.html

During the Second World War, the Dutch National Railway Company, nowadays called NS, transported Jews to Dutch transit camps and from there to the German border.  Almost all, more than a hun...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/dutch-railway-company-heavily.html

A bad tempered debate took place in parliament about a possible Dutch apology for slavery and the Dutch role in the slave trade. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that a formal apology could end u...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/07/dutch-government-will-not-offer-apology.html

Amsterdam has been acknowledging for the last 100 years that there are not sufficient toilet facilities especially for women and people with disabilities. This was mentioned in the Open Toil...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/06/amsterdam-new-report-says-desperate.html

At the start of the crisis 65% of the Dutch population supported measures in place against the Coronavirus. It has be now declined to 44% according to the Namens Nederland survey. Almost all ...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/06/declining-support-for-dutch-government.html

The UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) states that the Netherlands continues to support the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UNWC), a NGO which has multiple links with a Palestinian terroris...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/06/uk-lawyers-netherlands-funds-terror.html

Mayor John Jorritsma of Eindhoven has given police instructions not to react to non-violent provocations at an anti-racism demonstration in early June. Gerrit van de Kamp, Chairman of the Police...

http://badnewsfromthenetherlands.blogspot.com/2020/06/eindhoven-police-told-to-act-softly.html