Tag: Netherlands
CDA Utrecht: ‘More open bathing water throughout the city’
The memorandum is called ‘Vision City Water’ and it should be ready in the autumn. Utrecht has a limited number of places where it is legal to swim in open…
Utrecht municipalities get a second chance for wind energy plans
In recent years, plans for the realization of wind energy have not gone smoothly. It has also been found that the more concrete the plan for wind turbines, the more…
Maybe there is still room for a housing plan for young people from Kamerik? ‘We are happy but skeptical’
The news is positive for Jan Zwaneman of the Kamerik Village Platform, but at the same time he is somewhat sceptical. Now that they are not allowed to build on…
Cheese farmer who became a drug farmer has to go to prison
montfoort – A 34-year-old cheese farmer from Montfoort is sentenced to three years in prison, of which one year is suspended. The court sees sufficient evidence in intercepted Encrochat conversations…
OM demands a firm prison sentence for Soester with a large batch of amphetamine in a holiday home: “A lot of people become addicted and perish from it”
Strips containing temazepam pills were scattered throughout the room and bedroom. He had taken these from the Bunschoter’s stock and, like the GHB and the cocaine, they were for his…
Sustainable farmers have a ten-point plan to solve the crisis: ‘Everyone must take responsibility’
According to Van der Laan, an important first step is to pay a fair price for products, which is also one of the ten points in the Green Farmers Plan.…
Primary school students in Woerden offer ‘future chair’: ‘So that the council thinks about the future’
Woerden – Behind the mayor, on a podium, is a brightly decorated chair. A ‘future chair’, as primary school students Fenna and Roel from OBS De Achtsprong in Woerden call…
Volunteers in Woudenberg continue to help Ukrainian refugees: ‘It takes a lot of energy, but we do our best’
Woudenberg for Ukraine was established within a few days in early March 2022. It is now a foundation with 5 board members. They provide reception for the refugees in Woudenberg…
Half of local and regional politicians had to deal with aggression: ‘The growth is really very sharp’
Nearly half of the mayors, councilors and members of parliament have had to deal with aggression or intimidation in the past year. That is almost double in comparison with 2014.…
75 months in prison demanded in appeal for attack on Panorama building
The prosecutor today called the attack another targeted attack on the free press, “fitting a pattern of violence against journalists and media” and “undermining democratic society”. In 2019, the judge…