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Pro-Palestinian locals attack supporters of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. after a match with AFC Ajax in Amsterdam, Netherlands, following instances of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab chants and vandalism by Maccabi ultras. At least 30 people are injured, with five hospitalized, and 62 people are arrested. Dutch authorities condemn the attacks as antisemitic with the government of Amsterdam subsequently banning protests and demonstrations in the city for three days.
2024-11-8

A bluetongue disease outbreak in the Netherlands has spread to 319 sheep and cattle farming companies.
2023-09-28

The Netherlands officially suspends the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine by people under 60 years old due to concerns over reports of severe blood clotting.
2021-04-8

An appeals court in The Hague rules that Netherlands is partly to blame for the deaths of some 350 Muslim Bosnian men in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and, in a move considered landmark, orders it to pay limited damages.
2017-06-27

A Filipino lawyer files a complaint of "mass murder and crimes against humanity" against Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte and eleven other officials at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
2017-04-24

In the Netherlands State Secretary for Economic Affairs Co Verdaas resigns following an expense-affair after only thirty-one days in office.
2012-12-6

The new right wing coalition in the Netherlands have agreed to ban full Islamic veils, such as the Burqa and Niqab
2010-09-30

Militant Australian Islamic preacher Feiz Mohammad calls for Dutch politician Geert Wilders to be "beheaded" for denigrating Islam.
2010-09-3

Dutch novelist Gerbrand Bakker wins the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel "The Twin".
2010-06-17

Dutch politician Geert Wilders goes on trial for allegedly inciting racial hatred against Muslims.
2010-01-20