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The art of doing nothing: have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture?

Interest in the concept of niksen has grown rapidly over the past five years – and it has become a publishing sensation. But just how easy is it to let go of all outcomes?

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‘This was the most feared address in Amsterdam’: Steve McQueen takes us on a tour for Occupied City

It was a sobering but at times uplifting experience. Bianca Stigter and her husband Steve McQueen reveal how they made their four-hour film about the Nazi invasion that plunged their city into terror

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Dutch fightback to save teenagers from ‘narcoterrorism’ and drug gangs

Against a backdrop of surging cocaine imports and drug crime, the Netherlands has new plans to encourage young people to reject criminal careers

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‘It’s scary’: residents in Rotterdam reflect on Geert Wilders’ election win

Wilders’ far-right party won the most seats in Dutch election, though many in this diverse city say they can understand why

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Amsterdam welcomes decline of nuisance tourism after ‘stay away’ drive

Some locals say number of stag party-type visitors is down after campaign targeting young Britons

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Nothing is off table to get Ukraine into EU, says president of bloc’s parliament

Exclusive: Roberta Metsola warns ‘pushing the can down the road’ will fuel nationalism and the far right

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Arthur Brand: ‘I never give up informants - they will shoot you dead’

The ‘Indiana Jones of the art world’ on receiving that stolen Van Gogh, how he gains the trust of criminals and how he got into his unusual career

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How a podcast is giving Amsterdam’s ‘ghost citizens’ a voice

Mission is to let undocumented people, without access to banking or healthcare, share trials of life

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TikTok food tourists leave a bitter taste in Amsterdam

Shop owners and residents are not taking kindly to ‘flash crowds’ who come to pose and eat fast food in the city’s quaint tangle of streets such as De 9 Straatjes

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Noa-Lynn van Leuven: ‘I think darts is helping me to be the best of myself’

Dutch darts player will become first trans woman to play in a televised PDC tournament after a long road back to the sport she loves

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‘They’re sticking the finger up at cars’: Amsterdam split by low-traffic roads

The Dutch city’s ‘social experiment’ with closing off busy highways is testing the tolerance of drivers and cyclists

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Farmers on frontline as Dutch divided by war on nitrogen pollution

Government’s buyout scheme is meeting fierce resistance from farmers in Netherlands

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Low pay, fuel fines, cramped cabs: drivers at haulier used by major retailers speak out

Employees at Lithuanian freight operator Girteka complain of hard conditions on the road, including one who says he fell seriously ill but co-drove his truck 800 miles after emerging from hospital

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‘It was such a contrast to all of the noise and mayhem’: Judith Jockel’s best phone picture

The Amsterdam-based photographer’s holiday snap of her son is all the better for its imperfections

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‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years

Europe’s largest river restoration is making changes across the entire landscape, bringing benefits to wildlife and people

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‘It definitely isn’t flat’: Netherlands mountain trail proves an unlikely success

No need for tourists to bring ropes on this seven-peak hike in the Low Countries

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Rembrandt’s Night Watch paint recipe offers clues to the perfect wall filler

Analysis of 17th-century masterpiece by Dulux scientists revealed several ways of creating the perfect impasto

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‘We make nature here’: pioneering Dutch project repairs image after outcry over starving animals

Oostvaardersplassen reserve reshaped conservation in the 1980s as nature was allowed to take its course, now it is rewilding in a more managed way

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‘Can I get out now please?’: Could Wim Hof help me unleash my body’s inner power?

The extreme athlete, self-styled Iceman and now a wellness guru claims his breathing techniques and cold-water immersion can help fight modern ailments. I decided to brave his methods ...

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