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Dutch Design Week 2025 to trace design from craft to collective experience
Eindhoven will soon turn into a city shaped by ideas. Its industrial buildings, museum halls and public squares will open to the world as Dutch Design Week 2025 runs from October 18 - 26, 2025 as a celebration that marks twenty-five years of The...


Dutch Government Intervention: Taking Control of Nexperia Business news | October 15, 2025 On Monday October 13, the Dutch government has taken a decisive step to assume control over Nexperia,…
On Monday October 13, the Dutch government has taken a decisive step to assume control over Nexperia, a semiconductor company headquartered in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and owned by the Chinese firm Wingtech. This action, described by officials as...

NATO War-Games Climate Collapse
It’s the 11th hour for countries to respond to irreversible climate change, security experts agreed at the fourth annual NATO Climate Change and Security Summit — mere days after Montréal broke another seasonal heat record. The gathering brought...

ISKO LUXURY BY PG Unveils SS2027 Collection at Kingpins Show Amsterdam
Heritage Meets Innovation in Sustainable Denim ISKO LUXURY BY PG presents its SS2027 collection at Kingpins Amsterdam today, combining tradition, technology, and sustainability. Today, at the prestigious Kingpins Show in Amsterdam, one of the...

ONE Extends Sustainable Shipping Partnership with Nike
A methanol-fueled ship. Image: Ocean Network Express Pte. Ltd. (ONE) Ocean carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) says that it has extended its partnership with Nike, by which the retailer will continue to use ONE's sustainable shipping service...

Brooks student combines love of birds and climate policy research during summer internship
Everett Smith ’27 started birding when he was just 7 years old. Growing up in the Netherlands, his family would travel to the U.S. during the summers to stay with relatives by the Chesapeake Bay. Back then, the ospreys captured his imagination....

Azerbaijan, the Netherlands discuss agenda of bilateral and multilateral cooperation
Baku, October 15, AZERTAC Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elnur Mammadov, who is on a visit to the Netherlands, met with his Dutch counterpart, Marcel de Vink. During the meeting, the sides noted that recent high-level contacts between the...

Global K9 appointed by KLM for canine cargo screening at Amsterdam Schiphol
Global K9 (GK9) has been chosen by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to provide free running explosive detection dogs (FREDDs) at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, marking the screening provider’s first airline partnership in Europe. Four canine teams have been...

Novar establishes own grid connection for solar park in the Netherlands
The Avermieden grid connection, which allows Novar to act as its own distribution system operator, will soon connect the first phase of a solar project set to become the largest solar park in the Netherlands. October 15, 2025 Patrick Jowett Dutch...

Crisp: Some good news on climate change (sort of)
As oceans rise, glaciers melt and some parts of the world flood while others bake in drought, good news about climate change is scarce. Thus, a report last week from Ember Energy Research is worth noting. Ember is an energy think tank registered...

Armenia, Netherlands considering deepening of strategic partnership
ArmInfo.On October 13-14, a joint visit to the Kingdom of the Netherlands was carried out by the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Economy, Environment, and Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia, aimed at...

Data centres lured to Mexico can avoid environmental reporting
What’s the context? In a data centre boom in Mexico's Querétaro state, big tech companies are given leeway to bypass environmental requirements. Querétaro state lets data centres skip environmental impact reports Data centres also exempt from CO2...
Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark Named World’s Best Pension Systems
The retirement systems of the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark and Israel were once again named the top four systems worldwide, according to the 2025 Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index. The same four topped Mercer’s 2024 report. For the first...

New Era for European Textiles: A Ten-Company Recycling Alliance Emerges
More lobbying in European fashion. A dozen companies, ranging from the Catalan textile sorting and recycling company Coleo to the French company Reju, have joined forces to form a new alliance within the sector, the European Circular Textile...

Dutch Public Health Institute RIVM shuts website following cyberattack
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) took its website offline on Tuesday around 11:15 a.m. due to an external hack. The website is still inaccessible. “We closed the site as a precaution and are now working to fix...

Weak laws, rapid development, climate stress: St. Maarten’s trees are increasingly vulnerable
An aerial view of the stalled “Carbon Grove” development and the damage inflicted on the hillside. Developers appear to have clear-cut the land to build, and the project now stands as a monument to short-sighted planning and failed development,...
Dutch roots run deep in family of law student
By Sheila Pursglove Legal News Law student Giselle (Gigi) DeJong holds a unique undergraduate degree—she is one of two students who were the first in the world to study all three national varieties of the Dutch language: Netherlands Dutch, Belgian...

Netherlands leads 5G innovation: Why Lyca Mobile’s flexible plans outperform fixed contracts
The Netherlands showcases some of Europe’s most advanced telecommunications infrastructure, with comprehensive 5G coverage and impressive network performance that supports everything from 4K streaming to cloud computing applications. While...

Some good news on climate change ~ well, sort of
As oceans rise, glaciers melt and some parts of the world flood while others bake in drought, good news about climate change is scarce. Thus, a report last week from Ember Energy Research is worth noting. Ember is an energy think tank registered...