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Sunday 12 February RNW - NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24/7 ON RADIO, TV AND ONLINE

RNW News

The latest headlines brought to you from Hilversum, the Netherlands

Number of Dutch poor growing fast

The number of people living on or just above the poverty line is growing fast. Aid workers and debt-collecting agencies say the number of people facing major financial problems is on the rise, even though they do not have...

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KPN customers demand compensation

Dutch telecom company KPN has received numerous questions from customers who are demanding compensation for damage sustained as a result of KPN’s decision to temporarily disable some two million email accounts on Friday after...

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Dutch consumers no longer able to pay bills

Dutch consumers and businesses owe a record 6.3 billion euros to debt-collection agencies. Debts remain outstanding for increasingly long periods of time, and the last quarter of 2011 saw a substantial reduction in the...

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Dutch skating tours draw huge crowds

Tens of thousands of skating aficionados took part in one of more than 100 skating tours on natural ice organised across the Netherlands on Saturday. A spokesperson for the national ice-skating union KNSB said “It...

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Ireen Wüst wins World Cup 1,500 metres

Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst has won the women’s 1,500 metres race at the world cup races in the Norwegian town of Hamar on Saturday. The reigning Olympic...

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Security not compromised in KPN hack

The digital break in at Dutch Telecom Company KPN has in no way compromised the security of ICT systems used by the government and vital sectors of society. This is the conclusion of an investigation into the hack by the...

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E-mail via Dutch KPN suspended after data theft

Hundreds of clients of Dutch telecomprovider KPN are still unable to use their e-mail accounts after servers at the company were hacked. Unknown digital intruders stole personal data such as user names, home addresses, phone numbers...

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Stolen jewellery was simply forgotten

Nearly six years after the US ambassador's wife reported jewellery worth millions of euros stolen from a Dutch hotel room, police said on Thursday it had actually been gathering dust in a forgotten drawer for years.

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EU slams PVV ‘anti-Polish’ website

Brussels has come out strongly against the website for complaints about Central and East European migrants in the Netherlands launched by Geert Wilders’ populist Freedom Party (PVV). The European Commission is...

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Former Dutch MP: ‘Prosecute princess’ father’

Boris Dittrich, a former leader of the D66 democrat party, believes Crown Princess Máxima’s father, Jorge Zorreguieta, should face prosecution in the Netherlands , reports newspaper NRC Handelsblad. ...

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