Residents of 94 municipalities in the Netherlands will spend more than 1,000 euros on municipal housing costs this year. Last year, it was still 54, according to research by the VEH association for homeowners. The municipal housing costs bill will increase by an average of 5.9 percent this year.
Most municipalities consider it unnecessary to specifically ask people to hang the Dutch flag the right way up for May 4 and 5. There are hardly any upside-down flags left, they say. But a few dozen municipalities are calling on protesters to hang the flag so that the red stripe is on top for both Remembrance Day on Thursday and Liberation Day on Friday.