The Netherlands: As coronavirus cases rise, Paris, Madrid and Ibiza are added to Dutch 'no go list'

The Netherlands has placed Paris, Ibiza, Madrid and Brussels on its code orange list of places where all but essential travel is advised against, because of the increase in coronavirus cases.

The French, Spanish and Belgian capitals have been added to the orange list, as have the Balearic islands (include Majorca and Ibiza), and the Spanish provinces of Burgos, Salamanca, Almeria and Navarra.

The French Bouches-du-Rhone region, close to Aix en Provence and Marseille, is also out of bounds.

The ministry says all but essential travel to these places should be avoided and anyone returning to the Netherlands from one of them should go in to quarantine for 14 days. Britain has also been added to the code orange list, but travellers will not have to quarantine on their return to the Netherlands.

Travel advice to the UK has been tightened up as a warning, because the British have introduced quarantine requirements for people from the Netherlands, the foreign ministry said.

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As coronavirus cases rise, Paris, Madrid and Ibiza are added to Dutch 'no go list' - DutchNews.nl

The Netherlands: Self-quarantine on arrival in the Netherlands

Travellers arriving in the Netherlands from certain countries andregions are strongly advised to self-quarantine for 14 days. Even if youdo not have any symptoms or if you have tested negative for COVID-19. Once in the Netherlands, you can self-quarantine at home or in het temporary or holiday accommodation. Read the questions and answers about self-quarantine.

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Self-quarantine on arrival in the Netherlands | Coronavirus COVID-19 | Government.nl

Trump won't leave office peacefully, his former lawyer Cohen claims in upcoming book

Michael Cohen's memoir about U.S. President Donald Trump will be released Sept. 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, which confirmed the news Thursday to The Associated Press.

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The Netherlands: How can cities build a better bike culture? The Netherlands offers useful lessons - by Karlijn van Houwelingen

It might seem like cycling is in the DNA of the Netherlands, a country  where even the prime minister takes his bicycle to work. But the Dutch  haven’t always lived as one with their bikes. In the Amsterdam of the  early 1970s, cars were considered the wave of the future. They can be  seen filling up squares and streets in historical photographs, and  killed an average of over two Amsterdammers per week, including many children. 

 It is nothing more than an “accident of history” that the Netherlands  embraced cycling, says Marco te Brömmelstoet, the director of the Urban  Cycling Institute in Amsterdam and a man better known as the city’s  cycling professor. Today’s bike rider’s paradise was created after  parents and activists took to the streets to protest “child murder” by  car. A Saudi oil embargo, rising gas prices, concerns about pollution  and anger about the destruction of entire neighbourhoods to build
motorways did the rest

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How can cities build a better bike culture? The Netherlands offers useful lessons | CityMetric

Netherlands ranked eleventh best country in the world to raise a family

A new study has ranked 35 countries, using six different categories, to discern which are the best for raising a family. The Netherlands ranks eleventh overall, behind the Scandinavian countrie and Germany, being beaten by the Czech Republic for a spot in the top ten.

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Netherlands ranked eleventh best country in the world to raise a family

European Heatwave:The Netherlands swelters in first official heatwave of 2020

Bilt (a town near Utrecht)stay above 25 degrees for at least five days, with three of those days seeing temperatures above 30 degrees. Between August 5 and August 9, the maximum temperatures in De Bilt have been: 28,3 degrees, 31 degrees, 34degrees, 34,6 degrees, and 32,6 degrees.

The last official heatwave in the Netherlands was in August 2019. The current heatwave is
the 29th one recorded in the Netherlands since records began in 1901.The longest Dutch heatwave was in 1975 between July 29 and August 15.

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The Netherlands swelters in first official heatwave of 2020

Netherlands: Dutch Ambassador to US Defends Netherlands' Tough EU Stance - by Natalie Liu

Despite acquiescing to a compromise solution at last week’s rancorous but ultimately successful EU summit, Dutch diplomats are offering no apology for their country’s tough stand on financial assistance to the members worst hit by the global pandemic.

Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte and other leaders of what became known as “the frugal four” argued against a more generous relief offer promoted by France and Germany before settling on a package comprising $460 billion in grants and $424 billion in loans.

In an interview with VOA, Andre Haspels, the Netherlands’ ambassador to the United States, maintained that the tough medicine that Dutch officials prescribed for the suffering EU countries was no worse than what his government had delivered to its own citizens.

Ambassador to US Defends Netherlands' Tough EU Stance | Voice of America - English