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The Dutch capital has relaxed some of its coronavirus-related curbs, reopening most locations, on condition that city dwellers and tourists continue to observe basic...

Deputy mayor says citizens ‘need to know the facts and not be afraid of the conversation’

‘We need to know the facts and not be afraid of the conversation,’ says deputy mayor

Every Amsterdammer is being offered a free copy of a book exploring the city’s role in the organisation and management of the global slave trade as part of a wider reckoning with the Netherlands’ past. Last year the International Institute of Social History carried out research on behalf of the municipality of Amsterdam, and the results have now been made into a book: Amsterdam and the history of slavery. Researchers uncovered the integral role...

Drop in hospitalisations means next weeks relaxations look increasingly likely Facebook Drop in hospitalisations means next weeks relaxations look increasingly likely Facebook Whats up At the press conference on May 11, Prime Minister Mark Rutte revealed that, if the number of coronavirus patients in Dutch hospitals fell by 20 percent over the course of the week, a handful of coronavirus restrictions would be lifted on May 19. The good news is that the number of coronavirus infections and hospi...

Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 14.25 EDT Amsterdam is preparing to build an out-of-town five-storey “erotic centre” with two bars, 100 small rooms and an “erotic entertainment” venue such as a strip club as it downsizes its red-light district. The plan for the 5,000-sq-metre building has been detailed in a document submitted to the council by mayor Femke Halsema as the city seeks to find a commercial partner for the enterprise. In January, the council gave the green light t...

THE COLUMNIST MOVIE REVIEW Director: Ivo van Aart Writer: Daan Windhorst Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, Opens: May 7, 2021 This Dutch treat has a special resonance for me. A film reviewer who is a member of my critics’ group has been known to be a contrarian. He delivers his opinions and does not try to be different from others, but often he just is. As a result he had caused movies on Rotten Tomatoes to be 99% fresh or, in converse, to cause movies that are 99% rotten to be fresh. All...

Amsterdam sisters, raised in windowless storage space, face deportation Photo: Depositphotos.com Two young women who put themselves through school, partly while living in a windowless storage space bordering on Amsterdam’s A10 ring road, face deportation to Morocco because ‘they are not Dutch enough’. Sisters Sofia and Najoua Sabbar, aged 21 and 24, came to the Netherlands with their mother as a seven and four-year-old and applied for papers in 2019, when both had turned 18, the Parool r...

Date published: Monday 1st March 2021 12:25 - Jonny Whitfield Liverpool put a January target back on their radar, while Real Madrid look to beat Manchester United to a star forward – both in all the latest Euro Paper Talk. LIVERPOOL CENTRE-BACK TARGET RE-EMERGES Real Betis centre-back Aissa Mandi is back on Liverpool’s radar ahead of a summer swoop for a new defender, according to a report. Liverpool entered the January transfer window with no senior centre-halves following J...

Wopke Hoekstra passes a ‘Caution! Slippery! sign. Photo: ANP/Sem van der Wal The third wave of coronavirus rolls in just as deliveries of the vaccine grind to a halt and Amsterdam becomes the superspreading capital. Shipments of heroin and cocaine are also disrupted by police, while one of Germany’s most wanted men is tracked down to Amsterdam. Finance minister Wopke Hoekstra slips up in Friesland, where ice stadium bosses are accused of engineering overblown results. In pot and kettle news...