Amsterdam cheese makers Max&Bien just unveiled the world’s first plant-based cheese wheel with paraffin coating. The new sliceable speciality cheeses are made from fermented wheat. From this week, consumers will be able to buy the products from cheese and delicatessen stores.
ProVeg, the international nonprofit dedicated towards building a sustainable food system called this move as an innovative step in the booming market for vegan cheese.
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World's First Waxed Vegan Cheese Wheels Launch In Netherlands
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January 27, 2022
January 5, 2022
The Netherlands: Thousands gather to oppose Dutch virus measures despite ban
Thousands of people in the Netherlands defied a ban on assembling and demonstrated Sunday against the Dutch government’s coronavirus lockdown measures, gathering on a central square before marching toward a park in Amsterdam.
Read more at: Thousands gather to oppose Dutch virus measures despite ban | AP News
Read more at: Thousands gather to oppose Dutch virus measures despite ban | AP News
May 22, 2021
The Netherlands: Amsterdam to become first city in the world to ban advertising by fossil fuels companies
Amsterdam is set to be the first city in the world to ban ads from fossil fuel and aviation companies in a bid to reduce the ‘excesses’ of fossil fuel advertising.
This means that fossil-fuelled vehicles, such as petrol cars and flights, will no longer be advertised in Amsterdam subway stations or the city centre.
The new law follows mass movements in and around the capital which were headed up by the Reclame Fossielvrij (Fossil Free Advertising) initiative. The group co-ordinated a letter from over 50 local organisations demanding Amsterdam to go fossil free.
“The decision to ban fossil fuel advertising from subway stations comes at a crucial moment in the fight against climate change. Adverts that portray fossil fuels as normal worsen climate disruption and have no place in a city − or a country − that has complied with Paris,” says Amsterdam Mayor Femke Sleegers, coordinator of Reclame Fossielvrij.
Read more at: Amsterdam to become first city in the world to ban this type of advert | Euronews
This means that fossil-fuelled vehicles, such as petrol cars and flights, will no longer be advertised in Amsterdam subway stations or the city centre.
The new law follows mass movements in and around the capital which were headed up by the Reclame Fossielvrij (Fossil Free Advertising) initiative. The group co-ordinated a letter from over 50 local organisations demanding Amsterdam to go fossil free.
“The decision to ban fossil fuel advertising from subway stations comes at a crucial moment in the fight against climate change. Adverts that portray fossil fuels as normal worsen climate disruption and have no place in a city − or a country − that has complied with Paris,” says Amsterdam Mayor Femke Sleegers, coordinator of Reclame Fossielvrij.
Read more at: Amsterdam to become first city in the world to ban this type of advert | Euronews
March 22, 2021
The Netherlands: Larges Dutch criminal investigation' finds corruption among Amsterdam police
The officer appeared on the radar of the investigative services through the analysis of intercepted messages from the Encrochat encryption service, whose computer server was seized in France on June 12, 2020. This happened after the investigation team had been following the communication between the officer and external parties since April 1, 2020.
This led to the largest Dutch criminal investigation ever. Murders
Read more at: https://nltimes.nl/2021/03/06/larges-dutch-criminal-investigation-finds-corruption-among-amsterdam-police
This led to the largest Dutch criminal investigation ever. Murders
Read more at: https://nltimes.nl/2021/03/06/larges-dutch-criminal-investigation-finds-corruption-among-amsterdam-police
February 15, 2021
The Netherlands: Brexit: Amsterdam surpasses London as Europe’s leading share trading hub - by Ben Chapman
Amsterdam has surpassed London as Europe’s leading share trading hub in the wake of Brexit.
An average €9.2bn shares a day were traded on Euronext Amsterdam and the Dutch arms of CBOE Europe and Turquoise in January, according to data from CBOE Europe first reported by the Financial Times.
EU-based financial firms are banned from trading in London because the EU has not recognised UK regulations on exchanges as equivalent to its own.
Read more at: Brexit: Amsterdam surpasses London as Europe’s leading share trading hub | The Independent
An average €9.2bn shares a day were traded on Euronext Amsterdam and the Dutch arms of CBOE Europe and Turquoise in January, according to data from CBOE Europe first reported by the Financial Times.
EU-based financial firms are banned from trading in London because the EU has not recognised UK regulations on exchanges as equivalent to its own.
Read more at: Brexit: Amsterdam surpasses London as Europe’s leading share trading hub | The Independent
June 19, 2020
The Netherlands: Amsterdam isn't just Europe's 'sin city': It's the Eucharistic heart of The Netherlands
The annual Corpus Christi procession along the Amsterdam canals was canceled due to coronavirus prevention measures.
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https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2020/06/amsterdam-isnt-just-europes-sin-city-its-the-eucharistic-heart-of-the-netherlands/
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https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2020/06/amsterdam-isnt-just-europes-sin-city-its-the-eucharistic-heart-of-the-netherlands/
June 10, 2020
The Netherlands: Amsterdam's Red-Light District to Remain Closed
The red-light district is one of the main tourist attractions in Amsterdam. While coronavirus lockdown restrictions are starting to ease, sex work is not allowed to resume until September.
Read more at:
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/amsterdams-red-light-district-remain-closed
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https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/amsterdams-red-light-district-remain-closed
April 12, 2020
The Netherlands: The Dutch Consider The Hyperloop — Amsterdam To Paris In 90 Minutes
Hardt Hyperloop and North Holland are exploring a hyperloop system to
connect Amsterdam with Belgium, France, and Germany. They foresee
enormous economic opportunities, but is their plan realistic?
Read more at:
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/10/the-netherlands-considers-the-hyperloop-amsterdam-to-paris-in-90-minutes/
Read more at:
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/10/the-netherlands-considers-the-hyperloop-amsterdam-to-paris-in-90-minutes/
January 22, 2020
The Netherlands: Away winter blues! Netherlands marks National Tulip Day
Tulip growers in the Netherlands beat back winter — if only for a day — with a riotous explosion of color Saturday as they turned an Amsterdam square into a multi-colored feast for cold-dulled senses to mark National Tulip Day.
Several thousand people converged on Dam Square in front of the Royal Palace to enjoy and pick the 200,000 free tulips, making gorgeous bunches for themselves from the rainbow of vibrant colors on offer.
Read more at: Away winter blues! Netherlands marks National Tulip Day
December 11, 2019
The Netherlands: Amsterdam has the most expensive parking in the world
Amsterdam has topped another global list this week, only this time the honor is not nearly as friendly as a title like Best Place to Live, or the Safest City in the EU. Drivers resource website and app Parkopedia has named the Dutch capital the most expensive city globally for street parking.
Read more at:
https://nltimes.nl/2019/12/08/amsterdam-expensive-parking-world
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https://nltimes.nl/2019/12/08/amsterdam-expensive-parking-world
November 18, 2019
The Netherlands: Amsterdam wins prestigious award for circular economy
Read more at: Amsterdam wins prestigious award for circular economy
October 15, 2019
The Netherlands: Europe's number one biking country, becoming unsafe for bikers as higher speed mopeds and scooters are also allowed on bike paths
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| Scooters and Mopeds, danger on Dutch bike-paths |
To make cycling safer and even more inviting the Dutch have also built a vast network of cycle paths.
These are clearly marked, have smooth surfaces, separate signs and lights for those on two wheels, and wide enough to allow side-by-side cycling and overtaking.
In many cities the paths are completely segregated from motorised traffic. Sometimes, where space is scant and both must share, you can see signs showing an image of a cyclist with a car behind accompanied by the words 'Bike Street: Cars are guests'.
But there is a major danger now lurking on these beautiful bike paths, Molpeds and scooters,the Dutch call them "snor fietsers", and these also include, what one biker called the "silent killers", electric scooters, who are also racing silently over these serene bike-paths, at high speeds.
Very often Scooters and Mopeds go at speeds of 50 km per hour or even more, specially when the engine is "souped up".
Also Pizza delivering persons on scooters have a reputation of always going too fast. To make matters worse, because these scooters are on the bike-path, they also don't have to wear a helmet.
In December 2017 a majority of the Dutch parliament approved a city of Amsterdam request to move mopeds and scooters from their municipality bike-paths to the open roads and highways.
Unfortunately not many, if not any, of the cities in the Netherlands, have taken any similar action as Amsterdam so far. It is also well known in the Netherlands, that local police is not very agressive, when it comes to writing out "tickets" against moped and scooter riders, who are going too fast on the bike-paths.
As one bike-rider in the city of Almere noted: how many more bikers will need to get serious accidents, before our Municipality takes any action?
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October 8, 2019
April 17, 2019
Amsterdam's last floating florist closes, blaming tourists
Amsterdam's last floating florist closes, blaming tourists
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March 6, 2019
The Netherlands: Amsterdam is the most dangerous municipality in the Netherlands- by Mina Solanki
According to the 18th edition of AD’s annual crime monitor, Misdaadmeter, Amsterdam is once again the most dangerous municipality in the Netherlands, with the highest crime rates. Dinkelland in Twente is the safest.
In order to rank municipalities according to safeness, the AD crime monitor looks at 10 different types of crimes and offsets them against the number of residents. The crimes, such as domestic burglary, assault, pickpocketing and robbery, carry different weights depending on the impact they have on the victim.
In 2018, the number of crime reports submitted to the Dutch police decreased by six percent compared with the previous year. Domestic burglaries went down by 13 percent and the number of victims of pickpocketing dropped by 28 percent. There was also an 18-percent drop in thefts from garages and sheds. Despite this decrease in certain types of crimes, robberies increased by four percent and muggings only saw a reduction of two percent.
In Amsterdam, as in the rest of the country, the number of domestic burglaries and reports of pickpocketing decreased. However, the number of robberies rose from 184 in 2017 to 226 in 2018, an increase of 23 percent.
The number of victims of muggings also went up to 1235. These crimes have a greater impact on victims than, say, pickpocketing, and this is the reason why Amsterdam is still number one on the list of the most dangerous municipalities.
Close to Amsterdam, and catching up in terms of crime, is Diemen, which rose from 26th place in 2017 to 8th last year. Diemen experienced an upsurge in the number of burglaries, mainly due to a gang of burglars who were active at the start of 2018. The number of burglaries, however, diminished once the gang was caught.
Eindhoven comes in second according to the crime monitor, with more robberies than last year. Three of the other four municipalities in Limburg that made the top 10 also experienced a rise in robberies.
The top 10 most dangerous Dutch municipalities are:
In order to rank municipalities according to safeness, the AD crime monitor looks at 10 different types of crimes and offsets them against the number of residents. The crimes, such as domestic burglary, assault, pickpocketing and robbery, carry different weights depending on the impact they have on the victim.
In 2018, the number of crime reports submitted to the Dutch police decreased by six percent compared with the previous year. Domestic burglaries went down by 13 percent and the number of victims of pickpocketing dropped by 28 percent. There was also an 18-percent drop in thefts from garages and sheds. Despite this decrease in certain types of crimes, robberies increased by four percent and muggings only saw a reduction of two percent.
In Amsterdam, as in the rest of the country, the number of domestic burglaries and reports of pickpocketing decreased. However, the number of robberies rose from 184 in 2017 to 226 in 2018, an increase of 23 percent.
The number of victims of muggings also went up to 1235. These crimes have a greater impact on victims than, say, pickpocketing, and this is the reason why Amsterdam is still number one on the list of the most dangerous municipalities.
Close to Amsterdam, and catching up in terms of crime, is Diemen, which rose from 26th place in 2017 to 8th last year. Diemen experienced an upsurge in the number of burglaries, mainly due to a gang of burglars who were active at the start of 2018. The number of burglaries, however, diminished once the gang was caught.
Eindhoven comes in second according to the crime monitor, with more robberies than last year. Three of the other four municipalities in Limburg that made the top 10 also experienced a rise in robberies.
The top 10 most dangerous Dutch municipalities are:
- Amsterdam
- Eindhoven
- Rotterdam
- Heerlen
- Maastricht
- The Hague
- Sittard-Geleen
- Diemen
- Roermond
- Schiedam
- Dinkelland
- Olst-Wijhe
- Dalfsen
- Lopik
- Staphorst
- Vijfheerenlanden
- Loppersum
- Tubbergen
- Wierden
- Borsele
February 11, 2019
The Netherlands and Brexit: Netherlands wins Brexit spoils amid corporate relocation talks
Brexit is driving companies out of the UK, and the Netherlands is raking in the corporate refugees.
About 250 companies are in talks with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency to potentially relocate activities to the country, according to a statement published on Saturday. The candidates would join 42 companies that made the move last year, and the 18 early birds in 2017.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the largest Brexit wave is yet to come,” Jeroen Nijland, who heads NFIA, said in a telephone interview. “It normally takes about six months to two years from the first conversation we have with a company before it makes a decision, and our pipeline is now bigger than in earlier years.”
The Netherlands has emerged as one of the winners in securing businesses that seek to leave the UK because of Brexit, vying with countries like Germany, France and Ireland. The country, which bagged the European Medicines Agency — an EU agency moving from London to Amsterdam — is initially luring corporate entities in the financial and media sectors, both of which require permits to operate in the bloc, Nijland said.
The growth of Amsterdam as a trading hub will boost the Dutch share of European equity trading to around a third from five% currently, the financial markets regulator AFM estimates. The watchdog also expects the country to capture nearly 90% of European bond trading.
The media industry is another area where the Netherlands has picked up wins. Discovery Inc said in January it’s applying for broadcast licenses in the Netherlands to ensure its pay-TV channels will continue to show across the European Union in the event of a no-deal Brexit when the UK leaves the bloc on March 29.
Read more: Netherlands wins Brexit spoils amid corporate relocation talks
About 250 companies are in talks with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency to potentially relocate activities to the country, according to a statement published on Saturday. The candidates would join 42 companies that made the move last year, and the 18 early birds in 2017.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the largest Brexit wave is yet to come,” Jeroen Nijland, who heads NFIA, said in a telephone interview. “It normally takes about six months to two years from the first conversation we have with a company before it makes a decision, and our pipeline is now bigger than in earlier years.”
The Netherlands has emerged as one of the winners in securing businesses that seek to leave the UK because of Brexit, vying with countries like Germany, France and Ireland. The country, which bagged the European Medicines Agency — an EU agency moving from London to Amsterdam — is initially luring corporate entities in the financial and media sectors, both of which require permits to operate in the bloc, Nijland said.
The growth of Amsterdam as a trading hub will boost the Dutch share of European equity trading to around a third from five% currently, the financial markets regulator AFM estimates. The watchdog also expects the country to capture nearly 90% of European bond trading.
The media industry is another area where the Netherlands has picked up wins. Discovery Inc said in January it’s applying for broadcast licenses in the Netherlands to ensure its pay-TV channels will continue to show across the European Union in the event of a no-deal Brexit when the UK leaves the bloc on March 29.
Read more: Netherlands wins Brexit spoils amid corporate relocation talks
February 18, 2018
The Netherlands: Hollywood in the Netherlands - by Manja van Kesteren
With its iconic canals and canal houses, windmills and fields of tulips, Dutch scenery can make for a pretty picture.
Therefore, it’s no surprise that Hollywood has stopped by a couple of times over the years.
Here are some Hollywood blockbusters that have been (partially) filmed in the Netherlands:
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Dunkirk (2017)
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
To promote film production in the Netherlands, and to attract big Hollywood productions to the country, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive was introduced in 2014. To qualify for a 35 percent cash rebate, feature films must incur at least 75 percent of their production costs within the Netherlands, and they are required to spend 100.000 euros on local production costs as well.
Since its introductio the incentive has contributed to over 200 projects, including 98 film productions from abroad. Thanks to the program, Dunkirk received a sum of 1,2 million USD, and the Hitman’s Bodyguard took home 960.000 USD.
Read more and see the film clips:The Netherlands: Hollywood in the Netherlands - by Manja van Kesteren
Therefore, it’s no surprise that Hollywood has stopped by a couple of times over the years.
Here are some Hollywood blockbusters that have been (partially) filmed in the Netherlands:
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Dunkirk (2017)
The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
To promote film production in the Netherlands, and to attract big Hollywood productions to the country, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive was introduced in 2014. To qualify for a 35 percent cash rebate, feature films must incur at least 75 percent of their production costs within the Netherlands, and they are required to spend 100.000 euros on local production costs as well.
Since its introductio the incentive has contributed to over 200 projects, including 98 film productions from abroad. Thanks to the program, Dunkirk received a sum of 1,2 million USD, and the Hitman’s Bodyguard took home 960.000 USD.
Read more and see the film clips:The Netherlands: Hollywood in the Netherlands - by Manja van Kesteren
November 13, 2017
Gospel Festival: Amsterdam Gospel Festival-December 2, 2017
The Gospel Festival Amsterdam is back! Celebrating 50 years of Black Gospel in the Netherlands.
If you enjoy Gospel Music, you should not miss this festive concert on Saturday, December 2, in the Congress Center of the Amsterdam ARENA.
The event will include 50 international top performers, 20 Gospel choirs from the Netherlands, and amazing singing talent, including Berget Lewis and ZO! Gospel Choir, Dwight Dissels, Brace, DO, Bryan B, Frank McComb (US), John Angoh, Graziella Hunsel, Joany Muskietit and other great talent.
Please put a note in your calendars re: the Amsterdam Gospel Festival - a great family event (kids not younger than 10) - Saturday, December 2, at the Congress Center of the Amsterdam ARENA - from14.00 - 22.00.
April 20, 2017
City Survey: Best Cities for Millennials 2017 - World Ranking- Amsterdam Number One
Millennials are often defined by their affinity with technology,
their entrepreneurial mindset, and their revitalising effects on cities.
For all their positive attributes, this demographic is also
well-documented for their highly expectant standards, and will not stay
long in a location that doesn’t match their criteria.
Each year, students and young professionals flock from their home towns, suburbs and villages to find work and apartments in vibrant cities. But which cities actually offer the most for millennials?
At Nestpick, we help people of all ages relocate to some of the most exciting cities in the world, and our role has given us key insights into not only the migration patterns of millennials, but also the potential suitability of cities for the demographic. We studied thousands of cities to hand-pick 100 places considered to be millennial dream destinations. We then ranked them by relevant factors to compile the ultimate Millennial City Ranking.
In order for a city to rank highly, we determined that it must have a thriving business eco structure, allow affordable access to the essentials that young people need to survive, have a sense of openness and tolerance that is increasingly prevalent in the 21st century, and lastly, offer a chance for millennials to kick back and relax.
The results reveal the definitive list of the best cities for Millennials this 2017.
To view the list click on this link: : Best Cities for Millennials 2017 - World Ranking | Nestpick
Each year, students and young professionals flock from their home towns, suburbs and villages to find work and apartments in vibrant cities. But which cities actually offer the most for millennials?
At Nestpick, we help people of all ages relocate to some of the most exciting cities in the world, and our role has given us key insights into not only the migration patterns of millennials, but also the potential suitability of cities for the demographic. We studied thousands of cities to hand-pick 100 places considered to be millennial dream destinations. We then ranked them by relevant factors to compile the ultimate Millennial City Ranking.
In order for a city to rank highly, we determined that it must have a thriving business eco structure, allow affordable access to the essentials that young people need to survive, have a sense of openness and tolerance that is increasingly prevalent in the 21st century, and lastly, offer a chance for millennials to kick back and relax.
The results reveal the definitive list of the best cities for Millennials this 2017.
To view the list click on this link: : Best Cities for Millennials 2017 - World Ranking | Nestpick
April 27, 2016
The Netherlands: Ale of an idea: Amsterdam unveils King's Day urine plan - by Jon Henley
It is a process as natural as it is inevitable: the consumption of
large quantities of beer leads to the production of large quantities of
another amber liquid.
But when up 1.5 million ale-fuelled revellers take to the streets and canals of Amsterdam on Wednesday for the city’s annual King’s Day celebrations, the local water board does not intend to let it go to waste.
“We want to show what terms like ‘sustainability’ and ‘a circular economy’ really mean,” said alderman Abdeluheb Choho, outlining plans to collect 25,000 litres (44,000 pints) of urine from street party visitors and turn them into fertiliser.
“It’s particularly wonderful we can do it while the whole city is having a ball,” Choho, in charge of the sustainability portfolio on the city council, told Het Parool newspaper.
Between 600,000 and a million visitors are expected to join the Dutch capital’s 800,000-plus residents on 27 April, the birthday of King Willem-Alexander and a major national holiday.
Most will be dressed extravagantly in orange – in honour of the Dutch royal family, the House of Oranje-Nassau – and engaged enthusiastically in downing a great deal of beer (often a special low-alcohol “event beer” sold for the occasion).
Waternet, the city water board, said it would collect the urine – mainly male; female pee is apparently trickier because it tends to come with added loo paper – at three locations around the city, including two music festivals and the central Vondelpark.
The phosphate-rich King’s Day urine will be taken to a factory where Waternet successfully extracts enough of the essential plant and crop nutrient to fertilise the equivalent of 10,000 football fields every year, Het Parool said.
This year marks Amsterdam’s third King’s Day or Koningsdag, following Willem-Alexander’s inauguration on 30 April 2013. Previously, the celebration – one of the world’s largest street parties – was called Queen’s Day.
But when up 1.5 million ale-fuelled revellers take to the streets and canals of Amsterdam on Wednesday for the city’s annual King’s Day celebrations, the local water board does not intend to let it go to waste.
“We want to show what terms like ‘sustainability’ and ‘a circular economy’ really mean,” said alderman Abdeluheb Choho, outlining plans to collect 25,000 litres (44,000 pints) of urine from street party visitors and turn them into fertiliser.
“It’s particularly wonderful we can do it while the whole city is having a ball,” Choho, in charge of the sustainability portfolio on the city council, told Het Parool newspaper.
Between 600,000 and a million visitors are expected to join the Dutch capital’s 800,000-plus residents on 27 April, the birthday of King Willem-Alexander and a major national holiday.
Most will be dressed extravagantly in orange – in honour of the Dutch royal family, the House of Oranje-Nassau – and engaged enthusiastically in downing a great deal of beer (often a special low-alcohol “event beer” sold for the occasion).
Waternet, the city water board, said it would collect the urine – mainly male; female pee is apparently trickier because it tends to come with added loo paper – at three locations around the city, including two music festivals and the central Vondelpark.
The phosphate-rich King’s Day urine will be taken to a factory where Waternet successfully extracts enough of the essential plant and crop nutrient to fertilise the equivalent of 10,000 football fields every year, Het Parool said.
This year marks Amsterdam’s third King’s Day or Koningsdag, following Willem-Alexander’s inauguration on 30 April 2013. Previously, the celebration – one of the world’s largest street parties – was called Queen’s Day.
Read more: Ale of an idea: Amsterdam unveils King's Day urine plan | World news | The Guardian
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