NETHERLANDS popularity and NETHERLANDS trends

NEW FIGURES showing 24,000 people lost their jobs in the Netherlands during April alone have added fuel to the debate here over austerity versus growth – and prompted the opposition Labour Party to propose a left-wing coalition with the Socialists after the September election.

The Inter Milan playmaker defended his Netherlands teammate after he received criticism from Bayern fans after missing a penalty against Chelsea in the Champions League final

Originally endemic to the Atlantic Coast of North America, over the past 30 years Dyspanopeus sayi has been involuntarily introduced in the UK, France, the Netherlands, the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea. A study shows that in recent years the sea crab has established itself along the Western Mediterranean Coast.

ananyo writes "The battle for the world's largest radio telescope has ended in a draw. As an earlier Slashdot story suggested, South Africa and Australia are to split the Square Kilometre Array, a €1.5 billion (US$1.9 billion) project made up of 3,000 15-meter-wide dishes and an even larger number of simple antennas. The decision was announced at a meeting outside of Amsterdam in the Netherland...

They are more likely to suffer ageism in health care and in their daily lives than in either Germany, Sweden or the Netherlands.

More than 83 per cent of British beaches received the top 'excellent' rating, with Cyprus, Croatia, Malta and Greece also praised, but the Netherlands was among the worst performers.

The mood among consumers in the Netherlands deteriorated again in May as confidence about their personal finances sank to an historic low in the face of falling house prices.

Netherlands artist Suzanne Jongmans has created a series of portraits in the style of the Dutch Masters, creating the costumes out of soft packing foam sheets. She needs to team up with the artist who creates 15th century Flemish self-portraits using airplane toilet tissue and seat-covers. Together, they will rule the atemporal world. Referring to [...]

STOCKHOLM -- The future heir to the Swedish throne has been baptized amid pomp and pageantry in the chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm.Royals from the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands were among the guests who witnessed the ceremony Tuesday.Read More...

We hear every day about the need to conserve freshwater. That goal seems sensible--although knowing if humankind is making any progress could be impossible without a reliable way to quantify how much water nations use. To find out, engineers Arjen Hoekstra and Mesfin Mekonnen at the University of Twente in the Netherlands calculated the water footprint of the world's countries as well as pe...

A Latvian-born Dutch man is sentenced to 18 years in prison for abusing more than 60 children, some just a few months old, in a case that has shocked the Netherlands.

My colleague Ken Vogel reports today on the Bilderberg Group, a highly exclusive gathering of "100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media" who gather once a year to discuss world affairs and stoke the coals of conspiracy theorists. Among the guests: Washington Post chairman Don Graham and (new) New Republic owner Chris Hughes. Per Vogel: The Washington Pos...

Robert Gesink of the Netherlands is first in grueling climb up Mt. Baldy and grabs overall lead in nation's biggest cycling stage race. The leader after penultimate stage has won all six previous Tours.When others were grimacing with the stress and effort of a daunting climb up Mt. Baldy, Robert Gesink seemed untroubled.

In the Netherlands on Wednesday, Wu Bangguo, top Chinese legislator, called on the Chinese and Dutch governments to make the process used to apply for visas easier and to take other measures to strengthen ties between the two countries.

The day in sports included synchronized diving at the European swimming championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and the Italian Open tennis tournament continued in Rome.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The judge in Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial on Thursday indefinitely delayed the presentation of evidence due to "errors" by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defense lawyers - a ruling that throws the future of the trial into question....

China and the Netherlands on Tuesday agreed to expand their mutual investment and oppose trade protectionism to seek closer trade ties.

Utrecht, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - Albron, the largest independent caterer in the Netherlands, is to begin offering biometric and contactless payments in its restaurants in cooperation with Equens. Today, Albron and Equens signed a contract for the service Snel en Simpel Betalen …

Global expansion means it's time to get serious about managing the finances. But first? Build a Twilio app.

Cross-channel train operator to challenge airlines with services from its London base to the Netherlands, Germany, southern France and Geneva

When a TV series crams horse beheadings, frozen zombies, dragons, sword fighting and naked prostitutes into nearly every episode, it’s hard for a single actor to make a grand impact. But actress Carice van Houten has done precisely that in the second season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” As the mysterious red priestess Melisandre, Van Houten disrobed, exposing her very pregnant tummy, and lay down...

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A court in The Hague, Netherlands has ordered Internet providers to block the The Pirate Bay website or face large fines, a ruling that means accessing the Swedish-born site directly will soon be impossible for most Dutch consumers....

ARSENAL ARE confident that Juventus’s attempt to sign Robin van Persie this summer will be deflected after the Italian champions became the first club to publicly express an interest in securing the Netherlands international’s services at the end of the season.

Vodafone today threatened to drag the government to international arbitration over tax legislation under the bilateral investment treaty between India and the Netherlands.

A study from the Netherlands found that babies who were overdue are twice as likely to have behavioral problems in early childhood. Should Jessica Simpson, who was 9-days overdue with baby Maxwell, be listening? Babies who are born after the 42-week mark (the norm is 40) are twice as likely to have problems like attention deficit [...]

FRANKFURT, May 5 (Reuters) - The German and Dutch members of the PricewaterhouseCoopers network of consulting and auditing firms plan to merge to compete for auditing contracts with KPMG, Ernst &...

Several eurozone countries including Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal have slipped into recession Fears that the world recovery is running out of steam were heightened on Friday after the US jobs market stalled for a second month and the eurozone appeared to be slipping further into recession.Just 115,000 new jobs were created across the US in April, far fewer than th...

The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let's not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artistically bizarre Google blurring ever. More »

Veterans who helped liberate the Netherlands from Nazi occupation remember the sacrifices of their comrades who did not come back.

The added risk is similar to that of being born prematurely, which is known to cause health and emotional problems, according to researchers from the Netherlands.

MAASTRICHT/TILBURG, The Netherlands (Reuters) - Tourists puffed on spliffs in the streets of southern Dutch cities and defiant coffee-shops sold joints to visitors in protest against a ban on selling...

With their economy in recession and facing new belt-tightening measures, the Dutch are showing grim determination.

A policy barring foreign tourists from buying marijuana in the Netherlands goes into effect in parts of the country Tuesday, with a protest planned in the southern city of Maastricht.

AMSTERDAM — Europe’s most controversial politician lives in a government safe house fitted with a panic room and guarded round the clock. A self-avowed foe of Islam who compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and called for a ban on Muslim immigrants, he travels by bulletproof car and rarely talks with journalists — choosing instead to funnel messages directly to supporters via Twitter ...

The technology giant has set up up offices in Nevada, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands to ensure it pays a tax rate of just 9.8 per cent.

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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands makes Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs an officer of the Order of Orange Nassau.

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, has submitted his letter of resignation to Queen Beatrix after entering into a governmental coalition with the extreme right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, which had refused to support the budget reduction. His resignation was immediately accepted

The Netherlands sends a budget plan to Brussels that will bring its deficit below EU limits

A controversial law that will make it harder for foreign tourists to buy cannabis at the Netherlands' famous coffee shops has been upheld by a Dutch court.

The elections in France and the government’s collapse in the Netherlands should serve as warnings for Germany, which still insists on austerity elsewhere in the euro zone.

A majority of politicians in the Netherlands came to an agreement on a new budget proposal for 2013 which adheres to the strict limits of the eurozone treaty, following the collapse of the government this week.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - With the collapse of the Dutch centre-right government, the Netherlands may now drop some of its most eye-popping proposals aimed at Muslims and other immigrants and could soften its strong anti-immigration rhetoric.

Financial markets have been unnerved by the rise of socialist Francois Hollande in France and the collapse of the coalition government in the Netherlands.

More than 1,300 Palestinians living in Gaza’s Khan Younis camp will move into 223 housing units built by the United Nations agency assisting refugees in that area, with the financial support the Netherlands, it was announced today.

European stocks fall after weak manufacturing data and political uncertainty in France the Netherlands hit investor confidence.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - As the Netherlands heads for early elections, Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberal Party has strengthened its lead, an opinion poll published on Sunday showed, followed closely by two leftist parties.

The Netherlands is headed for early elections after coalition talks on a fiscal austerity package broke down Saturday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

Scientists in the Netherlands have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle. In the 1930s, the brilliant Italian physicist Ettore Majorana deduced from quantum theory the possibility of the existence of a very special particle, a particle that is its own anti-particle: the Majorana fermion. That 'Majorana' would be right on the border between matter and anti-matter.

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STMicroelectronics (ST) annonce lundi qu'un tribunal arbitral lui a ordonné en fin de semaine dernière de verser 59 millions de dollars (45 millions d'euros) à NXP Netherlands, ce qui conduit le fabricant de semi-conducteurs à revoir à la baisse sa prévision de marge pour le premier...

Right to Die-NL has created mobile teams to help patients die at home, and is now calling for legislation to make euthanasia available to anyone over age 70, sick or not.

MUNICH/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Microsoft is moving its European software distribution to the Netherlands from Germany after being caught up in patent disputes with mobile phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility Inc .

MLB officials have been watching with envy for years as the NBA, NFL and NHL played games in Europe. Now, stadiums in London and the Netherlands could provide the chance for baseball to follow suit.

TWO young hackers have been arrested in the Netherlands and Australia prompted by tips from a South Korean student.

Tissue derived from gut stem cells can repair intestinal damage when transplanted into mice.Mamoru Watanabe at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute and University Medical Centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and their colleagues cultured intestinal fragments from mice

Within the past week, three incidents of depravity have been the subject of news coverage. Of course, in the world at large, many outrages...

Women's world number one Victoria Azarenka is through to the third round of the Miami Masters, extending her winning run in 2012 to 24 matches after beating Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands in straight sets.

The new iPad arrived in 25 more countries Friday. The first YouTube videos: Denmark: Hungary: More as they arrive. On top of the 10 countries that got the new iPad last week, Apple (AAPL) launched the device Friday in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, N...

Cricket:Ireland will get a chance for revenge against Namibia in Dubai tomorrow, and with it a place in the World Twenty20 finals in Sri Lanka in September, after they completed a second comprehensive victory in the play-offs by beating the Netherlands by seven wickets this morning.

March 19 (Reuters) - Norit N.V., a Netherlands-based maker of activated carbon, filed with U.S. regulators on Monday to raise $200 million in an initial public offering of its common stock.

A Dutch court has rejected Samsung’s 3G patent bid to ban sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad in the Netherlands.

The family of a Co Mayo man, who has been missing in the Netherlands since 2008, has vowed to not “go away” until they see progress in the investigation into his disappearance.

The inflow of funds from PricewaterhouseCoopers Services BV, Netherlands, was first shown as ‘reimbursement of expenses’ — including in representation made to banks — but later invoiced as ‘support’ and finally as ‘grant’. Surprisingly, the books of accounts classified this as ‘sundry income’, which again points to misrepresentation of facts.

Mexico's violent drug cartels have reached the streets of Britain, France and the Netherlands, according to US immigration officials, with undercover British agents undergoing training in El Paso to combat the problem.

ONE MORE THING:STAND BY YOUR remote controls. Competition in the the Irish pay TV market is set to heat up in the next 12 months. At an industry convention in Brussels this week, Liberty Global chief executive Mike Fries confirmed that its Horizon “next- generation” set-top box would be launched in Ireland this year, as it will in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

The Lancet–University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute (Nov 5, p 1612), must be welcomed. Indeed, scrutiny is mandatory because too many governments exhibit little concern for their citizens' health. For example, the Netherlands is flying in the face of best evidence for reducing the tobacco burden.

The Netherlands' Arjen Robben has given his critics an emphatic response with a match-winning performance for his country against England.

England's interim manager plans to keep everyone guessing as to who will lead the players out against the Netherlands until the morning of the match.Related StoriesEngland v Holland: Liverpool winger Stewart Downing backs club captain Steven Gerrard for England armband

Tottenham's Kyle Walker is the latest player to withdraw from the England squad for Wednesday's friendly with the Netherlands.

By abstaining on vote about bitumen use, they were able to ensure the fuel-quality directive did not receive a majority passage

Scientists in the Netherlands say they hope to produce the first laboratory-grown hamburger by fall.

Scientists in the Netherlands say they hope to begin producing the first laboratory-grown hamburger by fall, according to news reports out of ...

Sometimes it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 journals, including such top-ranking titles as Cell and the Lancet

The Netherlands plans to crack down on internet service providers (ISPs) that allow access to file-sharing sites such as Pirate Bay, though it will not make it an offence for individuals to download from these sites.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands plans to crack down on Internet service providers that allow access to file-sharing sites such as Pirate Bay, though it will not make it an offence for individuals to download from these sites.

THE GOVERNMENT has aligned itself with Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, in a joint proposal to EU leaders for new measures to stimulate economic growth in Europe.

The decision by UCLA to sell the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel-Air stirs anger by garden conservancy groups and Carter's family, although the sell could net $15 million for the university.

A study at the Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, has found that the mere mention of a woman's name can impair a man's cognitive performance.

Researchers in the Netherlands found risk was highest among people from Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, Turkey and Morocco who immigrated before age 4.

Standard & Poor’s is set to downgrade the credit ratings of several eurozone countries later on Friday, but not those of Germany and the Netherlands, a senior eurozone government source said

Two of our favorite Dutchies!!! Kraak & Smack are back! The duo from the Netherlands has dropped a slice of retro house on our asses that is so smooth and sexy, we wanna roller boogie the night away!!! That piano riff is driving us wild!!! Check out the grooviness (above)! Then CLICK HERE to listen to more music from Kraak [...]

The Dutch government announces that is to ban the use of the mild narcotic khat, popular with the Somali community in the country.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bankrupt primary aluminum producer ZALCO is in talks with eight potential buyers for a takeover of part or all of its plant in Zeeland, the Netherlands, the company's receiver said...

Anthony Bailey begins “Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda: The Making of a Masterpiece” (Henry Holt; $32) with a crackerjack war story. On March 3, 1590, an innocent-looking riverboat used to transport peat sailed into Breda, a city in the Netherlands that had been . . . (Subscription required.)

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana was released in France on Friday after the International Criminal Court last week dropped charges against him, the court announced. "Thanks to the full cooperation of the Netherlands, the host state of the ICC, and of France, Mr… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Household waste from the Italian city of Naples will now be shipped to the Netherlands, where it will be burned down in two waste plants.

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis will receive a lifetime achievement prize at the European Festival Awards in the Netherlands in January.

Tens of thousands of children have been victims of sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands since 1945, an independent commission said on Friday, criticising what it called the church's cover-up and cultural silence.

In a tidy historical touch, a summit took place on Dec. 9, 1991, in Maastricht in the Netherlands to set the path toward the single currency, 20 years to the day before Friday’s meeting in Brussels designed to rescue it.

New Zealand have shown us how to capitalize on opportunity to boost their stocks in the international hockey arena.By reaching the medal round of the Champions Trophy hockey, the Kiwis, hosting the elite tourney for the first time ever, responded superbly to a huge challenge. The Black Sticks fought back from a 0-3 deficit to hold oft-crowned champions The Netherlands 3-3 and shunt out Olympi...

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Laurent Gbagbo has appeared at the ICC in the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity -- which include murder and rape.

London, Ont. Olympian adds to gold medals during Sunday’s long track event in the Netherlands

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Prosecutors say an investigating judge has ordered the brother of slain Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman to be detained for a further two weeks on suspicion of murder or manslaughter....

Thirty-eight students from the Netherlands ran in the New York City Marathon on November 6, 2011, to raise money to extradite the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré. (Amsterdam) – Thirty-eight students from the Netherlands ran in the New York City Marathon on November 6, 2011, to raise money to extradite the exiled former dicta...

Seattle Mariners baseball player Greg Halman was stabbed to death early Monday in the Netherlands and his brother was arrested as a suspect

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman was stabbed to death early Monday and his brother was arrested as a suspect, Dutch police said.

Seattle outfielder dies in Netherlands home, brother arrested by police for questioning

Filed under: Greg Halman, TMZ Sports, R.I.P. Greg Halman, outfielder for the Seattle Mariners, was stabbed to death early Monday morning in the Netherlands ... and his own brother has been arrested as a suspect. A police spokesman said cops were called to a home in the city of Rotterdam and found 24-year-old Halman bleeding from a stab wound. Officers we...

EGMOND AAN ZEE, Netherlands (Reuters) - When the Netherlands built its first sea-based wind turbines in 2006, they were seen as symbols of a greener future.

An appeal has begun against a million-euro fine on multinational oil trader Trafigura for the illegal export of toxic waste. It was dumped in Ivory Coast after a stopover in the Netherlands.

RODERWOLDE, Netherlands (AP) -- How far does a mosquito fly? Harry Boerema wants to know....

In 2007, seven of the euro zone's major bond issuers were rated triple-A. That has shrunk to five, but in investors' eyes only Germany, Finland and the Netherlands are safe havens now.

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top domain is a Dutch country code name that ranks among the 12 biggest ccTLD sales so far in 2008. The new all extension Top 20 has 14 .coms and a pair of country codes with the final four openings divided evenly between a .net, a .org, a .info and a .mobi.