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10 questions   Photo: Karina Kaminska  Dutch-Pakistani Iffat Rose-Gill (40) is a gender equality activist and the founder of The Code to Change, an organisation improving women’s access to the digital economy. She is surprised by the ongoing integration issues here, but loves the Netherlands’ multiculturalism and the fact that even her local market stocks a taste of home. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I moved to Amsterdam in 2011 to join my husband, who was from the Netherlands....

Photo: Bic via Wikimedia Commons Dutch parents who were wrongly accused of fraud by the Dutch tax office and forced to repay thousands in childcare benefit want their names cleared and better support from local councils. Rotterdam city council last Friday announced that it will be repaying the private debts that the worst-affected 50 local victims took on in order to pay back benefits. But others have told DutchNews.nl that it is unclear what has happened with €11m the government has given lo...

Sculpture formerly known as the Tongue of Lucifer loses its spark The Tongue when it still belonged to Lucifer. Photo: Albert Kok via Wikimedia Commons The Tongue of Lucifer, the nine-metre high oval sculpture which sat on the A6 near Lelystad until it was blown over at the beginning of last year is to return to its place under a new name, Flevoland provincial councillors have decided. The work of art will now be known as the Tongue only, on the insistence of the fundamentalist Christian SGP w...

Dutch elections: How COVID-19 salvaged Mark Ruttes bid amid scandal Despite a shocking child benefits fraud scandal and sluggish COVID-19 measures, Dutch leader Mark Rutte remains popular going into the general election. How has Teflon Mark emerged from such crises unscathed? Mark Rutte is seeking a fourth term in office, as Dutch voters head to the polls on March 17 For so many, ringing in the New Year brings hope and a chance to start anew. But for Kristie Rongen, it marked the day she coul...

Credit: Daan Roosegaarde. On a plot of farmland in Lelystad, Netherlands, art and technology merge in a stunning light show. During the day, the

"The partys begun, but not everyones joined in yet" "Were usually at Fruit Logistica in Berlin or skiing. Now, were sitting, staring at each other," jokes Erik Waterman of Waterman Onions in the Netherlands. That was in February. He was referring to the temporarily quiet onion market. Nevertheless, according to him, this dip is normal for the beginning of the year. "Its never been otherwise. But we usually leave the road at 140km/h (87mph). Last fall, we thundered along at 220km/h (137mph). We ...

The mixture of blue, red and ultraviolet lights appear as a vast artwork to the naked eye, creating “dancing lights”. They are shining across a huge field of leeks, the vegetable he has chosen to trial the design on. During the day, the leeks look like any other field of crops but, by night, they transform into a multicoloured light show. Leek fields in the daytimeDaan Roosegaarde The technology can enhance plant growth and reduce the need for pesticides by up to 50 per cent, he says. By wo...

By day, the field of leeks looks like any other. But, as the sun sets, blue and red light, mixed with invisible ultraviolet (UV) radiation, transforms the scene into a multicoloured landscape. This LED light show is not just for effect. For a couple of hours every evening the lights are shone across the 20,000sq metre field in Lelystad in the Netherlands in a bid to make the leeks grow better. In a light installation that brings art and science...

Comprehensive theme ensures great exhibitor demand for PotatoEurope trade exhibition With the event theme “What’s Now, What’s New and What’s the Future”, PotatoEurope 2021 promises to provide insights into current developments in the potato industry as well as a look at the future. The large interest in booking a stand for the trade fair to be held at the location of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) Field crops in Lelystad on September 1-2, shows that this theme resonates with t...

/PRNewswire/ -- Catapult Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel cancer treatments, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...