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Loosdrecht is a bustling lakeside village that stretches out along a long narrow strip flanked by waterside villas and yacht clubs, half an hour’s drive from Amsterdam. Usually early May is the start of the summer season, when wealthy tourists come down to take out their boats and dine by the water’s edge. But for […]

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Back in September last year, when a gang of far-right protesters tried to shove a blazing container bin through the offices of political party D66, its leader, Rob Jetten, was in no mood to mince words. He explicitly linked the riots in The Hague that day, in which police cars were set ablaze and groups […]

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When Rianne Letschert, the Maastricht university professor moderating the formation of the next Dutch government, said a new cabinet was urgently needed to deal with the instability in the world, she might have been accused of having delusions of grandeur. As if the problems from Venezuela to Iran via Greenland could be quelled by Rob […]

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High hopes accompanied Willem Barentsz’s third expedition to Nova Zembla in 1596. After two previous failures, Barentsz set off in April 1596 in search of the north-east passage, the fabled route that would allow Dutch merchant ships to reach China and India via the Arctic Ocean. The second voyage, the previous year, had revealed a […]

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