One resident after another is harassed out of their neighborhoods in Amsterdam. This time a Jewish couple in Bos en Lommer is being targeted. Bricks are thrown through their windows, swastikas are being painted on their walls and so on. Before the reporter approaches that couple, he talks with people from the neighborhood to find out what goes on peoples’ minds. He talks to people and finds... 

The far right may pose a serious challenge in June parliamentary polls Preliminary results in Dutch local polls suggest an anti-Islam party has made major gains and may pose a serious challenge in June parliamentary polls. The Freedom Party (or PVV), led by Geert Wilders, is opposed to what it calls the country’s “Islamisation”. General elections have been called following the collapse... 

The chairman of the inquiry and former president of the Dutch Supreme Court, Willibrord Davids, presents the commission’s findings before Dutch officials on January 12, 2010. An independent probe investigating the Netherlands’ support for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq says the US and Britain rushed to war without sufficient legal backing under international law. The commission’s... 

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