Sonja Rijnen
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Dutch opposition party votes to join European Socialist family (opens the original)
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The largest opposition party in the Netherlands has chosen to join the European Socialists rather than the Greens in an internal vote, the results of which were announced Friday. Some 65% of votes cast by members of Progressive Netherlands (PRO), which was formed earlier this year when the Dutch GreenLeft (GroenLinks) and Labour (PvdA) parties merged, backed joining the Party of European Socialists instead of the European Green Party. Before voting began, an advisory committee to the party recom
Sabotage suspected as parts of Dutch rail network come to a standstill (opens the original)
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Dutch police are investigating a suspected act of sabotage after large parts of the country’s rail network came to a standstill Tuesday morning, causing delays and cancellations for passengers across central and northern parts of the Netherlands. “Materials were found in several places along tracks that were deliberately placed there. This is causing section failures. It seems to be sabotage,” ProRail, the county’s rail infrastructure operator, said in a statement. According to a spokesperson, p
Germany’s modern miracle: Churches are losing believers but gaining money (opens the original)
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German commentators are calling it a modern-day “miracle.” Hundreds of thousands of worshippers in the country are walking away from their churches each year. The money, however, keeps rolling in. Some 660,000 people formally quit the country’s Catholic and Protestant churches in 2025, freeing them from a levy automatically charged to registered members as a percentage of their income tax bill. Despite the exodus, the two institutions collected more than €12.5 billion through the church tax for
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