Selling a social rental home for 1 million euros? It is possible in Amsterdam, despite a call from the municipality not to dispose of corporation property anymore. Seller Ymere says that the sales proceeds are indispensable for more social new construction. Marc van den EerenbeemtMarch 4, 2021, 19:24 In November, Jan Leegwater and Boudewijn Rückert…
A train in the Nedtrain workshop.Image ANP The Public Prosecution Service accuses the parties of having ‘insufficiently ensured the health and safety of the employees within the reintegration project’. Moreover, Tilburg and Nedtrain did not comply with regulations regarding the use of hazardous substances. As a result, welfare recipients were exposed to a large amount…
Guy Verhofstadt.Image Dutch Height / EPA It has been arguing for months between the parties in the European Parliament and between Parliament and the Member States. The parliamentarians demanded that their liberal colleague Guy Verhofstadt be the chairman of the conference. Indigestible for many government leaders, who still get acute regurgitation from the former Belgian…
Graves in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Brazil.Image AFP The states are demanding action from the federal government, but President Jair Bolsonaro continues to play down the situation. “The media is sowing panic,” he claimed Wednesday. Brazil now has 257,000 corona deaths and between 1,000 and nearly 2,000 victims are added every day. The…
Minassian at a 2018 lawsuit in Toronto. He appeared via video link.Image AP Alek Minassian, 28, told police he was part of an online community of sexually frustrated men who were involuntary celibates, some of whom plan attacks on people who do have sex. He admitted that he had deliberately run into the people in…
Google in BrusselsImage AFP Cookies. Once conceived as handy text files that increase the ease of use while surfing the internet. For example, because they remember whether someone is logged in or not. But nowadays they mainly have an annoying sound. This is due to the so-called third party cookies, the cookies that are placed…
Aziz, the Syrian who was recognized as an IS fighter in De Balie, looks out over Amsterdam where he lives and works.Sculpture Aurélie Geurts Aziz gained national fame in 2017, after he was recognized by other Syrians in the Amsterdam debate center De Balie. The case drew even more attention when it emerged that Aziz…
Police at work at the place where criminal lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead on September 18, 2019. He was the attorney for crown witness Nabil B.Image Guus Dubbelman / de Volkskrant The quarrel between Wiersum and Nabil B. is evident from statements made by Wiersum’s widow and Wiersum’s office mate. Their statements were already…
Image AFP After the storming of the Capitol on January 6 by excited supporters of President Trump, right-wing circles in the United States immediately reported that they were actually disguised antifa activists. Some Republican Congressmen also spread that theory during the hearings about the cause of the stampede, which resulted in five deaths. To the…
Halsoverkop moesten wintersporters een jaar geleden skigebieden in Oostenrijk verlaten, toen de autoriteiten de coronabrandhaarden op slot deden. Drie vakantiegangers vertellen hoe ze thuis alsnog ziek werden en nog steeds met de gevolgen worstelen. Maartje Bakker2 maart 2021, 12:04 ‘Wat ik nooit zal vergeten, is dat de kerkklokken de hele tijd aan het luiden waren’,…