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Parking fines in Amsterdam hit record
Revenue from parking fines in Amsterdam totaled €166 million in 2013 or €9 million more than in 2012.
This is partly due to an increase in the parking spaces available, in part to an incr...
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Schiphol has now become the fastest growing airport in the European Union.
With an added one million passengers in 2012 it overtook Madrid to become the fourth busiest airport in the EU.
Passeng...
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Van Gogh’s Sunset at Montmajour unveiled in Amsterdam
The newly discovered work by Van Gogh unveiled in Amsterdam on 9 September will be on view at the Van Gogh Museum from 24 September.
It is the first discovery of an unknown work by the Dutch artist...
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22-23 June sees a major weekend celebration to mark the reopening of Amsterdam’s three major museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk and the Van Gogh at the Museumplein hub. There will be late-n...
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Dutch plan to drop Monday postal deliveries
The minister of economic affairs has presented a proposal to parliament to cut postal deliveries on Mondays. At present the postal service PostNL NV, which is an independent company, is obliged by law...
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The remodernised Rijksmuseum will reopen to the public on 13 April after its official inauguration by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, one of her last public appointments before she retires at the en...
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Dutch leave Netherlands in record numbers
In 2012 nearly 150,000 Dutch citizens emigrated from the Netherlands according to Statistics Netherlands. This compares with just over 130,000 in 2011 and 121,000 in 2010.
The reasons for the emigr...
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Dutch recession affects horses
Over 4,500 horses have been put down in the Netherlands in the first six months of 2012 compared with 3,400 in the whole of 2011 according to a report in the daily tabloid NRC.next.
According to th...
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To add to its already excellent and varied public transport system Amsterdam now has a scooter taxi company, called Hopper, launched at the beginning of October. The price of a single ride is a flat-r...
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The Van Gogh museum closes for restoration
The Van Gogh will be closed from 24 September 2012 to 25 April 2013 for renovations.
During that period about 75 of the 200 works will be on display at the Hermitage, Amsterdam, Amstel 51, in an ex...
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Deutsche Internationale Schule Den Haag
The German International School is one of six international schools in The Hague. As a consequence of the international atmosphere of this European city, ther...
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The British School of Amsterdam
The British School of Amsterdam is an independent co-educational day school offering a quality British style education to children of all nationalities between...
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Amsterdam International Community School
An IB world school, AICS offers primary and secondary school for ages 4 - 16, as well as an IB (International Baccalaureate Organization)diploma programme for s...
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International School of Amsterdam
The International School of Amsterdam (ISA) has been meeting the educational needs of the international community of the greater Amsterdam area for four decades...
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Amsterdam College for the Arts.
The Amsterdam College for the Arts (AHK) provides higher art education in many disciplines: fine arts, film and television, theatre, dance, music, architecture,...
