Category: Netherlands

Government adopts advice Committee lawyer services to the State News item | 02-06-2023 | 15:00 The government will adopt the recommendations of the Committee lawyer services to the State. Late 2020, this committee issued an advice on the way in which the central government should be advised and assisted in matters requiring independent legal advice […]

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Government focuses on voluntary departure and phased transition to asylum reception for asylum applications from third-country nationals from Ukraine News item | 08-06-2023 | 11:55 On 4 September, the Temporary Protection Directive for third-country nationals with a temporary residence permit in Ukraine will expire. As a result, from that moment on they no longer have […]

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Measures in women’s prisons after inspection report Nieuwersluis PI News item | 31-05-2023 | 13:00 Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind and the Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI) are taking measures to tackle transgressive behaviour in women’s prisons. The Inspectorate of justice and Security started an investigation into the culture in Nieuwersluis Penal Institution (PI) after […]

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Threat assessment NCTV: terrorist threat to the Netherlands increased News item | 30-05-2023 | 16:00 The terrorist threat for the Netherlands has increased over the past half year. There are increasingly more signals that jihadist organisations are preparing to commit terrorist attacks in Europe. These groups are explicitly naming the Netherlands as a target. A […]

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Expo 2025 Osaka: design of the Netherlands Pavilion unveiled News item | 05-06-2023 | 16:10 The Netherlands has announced its participation in Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. The Netherlands Pavilion is unique in that it is based on a fully circular concept and features an anthropogenic sun. Individuals and representatives of businesses, governments and knowledge […]

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Netherlands leads the way in Europe with bill for the Minimum Tax Rate Act 2024 (implementing ‘Pillar Two’) News item | 31-05-2023 | 16:23 The bill for the proposed Minimum Tax Rate Act 2024 was presented today to the House of Representatives of the Dutch parliament. The proposal ensures that multinational groups and domestic groups […]

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Africa Strategy: government presents integrated approach to cooperation with Africa News item | 31-05-2023 | 11:26 The Netherlands is sharpening the focus of its collaboration with Africa by investing more, more specifically, and more sustainably, in both the continent and in relations with African countries. The strategy is intended to position the Netherlands and the […]

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Additional municipalities to tackle youth crime News item | 22-05-2023 | 11:53 The government is to support more municipalities with tackling incidences of youth crime. The area-oriented preventative strategy to prevent young people growing up to be serious criminals is to be expanded from 15 to 27 municipalities. That is the subject of a half-year […]

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Application for grandparent access rights to be easier News item | 25-05-2023 | 11:56 The application process for grandparent access rights to a grandchild when parents are nor cooperative will be easier from now. The Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind has sent a bill on grandparent access rights to their grandchildren to the House […]

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Highlights of a year of feminist foreign policy News item | 30-05-2023 | 10:30 The Netherlands seeks to reduce inequality, and it is committed to promoting the equality of men, women and LGBTIQ+ people all over the world. For the past year the Netherlands has sharpened its focus in this area, pursuing an explicitly feminist […]

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