Tag: UTRECHT
Rutte visits refugees Jaarbeurs and Holland Casino: ‘It is special that Utrecht takes such responsibility’
UTRECHT – High visit tonight in Utrecht: Prime Minister Rutte came to take a look at the two large refugee shelters in the Dom city. He visited the emergency shelter…
What love means to Arthur Japin, the writer of the most beautiful love phrase in the Netherlands
Arthur Japin knows what love is, but it didn’t come naturally. In his youth he was all too often told that he was worth nothing. “When you grow up in…
Laboratory animals increasingly adopted: ‘I save two animal lives’
Thousands of animal experiments are carried out in Utrecht every year. Saskia Kliphuis is one of the researchers who works with laboratory animals, this time she needed hundreds of chickens.…
OM will not prosecute football player Labyad for serious assault
Labyad (29) would have assaulted and threatened a plasterer together with his father in 2020. That would have happened in the yard of Labyad’s house in Blaricum. The alleged victim…
Man who was arrested after a manhunt on A27 suspected of preparing a robbery
UTRECHT – The man who was arrested near Amelisweerd last Saturday after a long chase on the A2 and A27 will remain in custody for fourteen days. That has been…
College of Human Rights: no headscarf for boas is stigmatizing
UTRECHT – The plan not to allow boas to wear a headscarf, skullcap or cross is stigmatizing and ineffective in safeguarding their neutrality. That is the opinion of the Institute…
More than 80 subsidy applications for the 900th anniversary of Utrecht have been approved
UTRECHT – In the municipality of Utrecht, more than eighty initiatives have so far been awarded a subsidy to organize something festive during the 900th anniversary of the city. Residents…
Utrecht aims for coalition of GL, D66, PvdA, Student & Starter and CU
According to Van Gurp, many party combinations were conceivable. “A number of factors played a role in my consideration: the right balance between stability and innovation, administrative power and a…
Arthur Japin wrote the most beautiful love phrase in the Netherlands
Arthur Japin: “Writing about love is like loving itself: it comes naturally and yet it takes courage, there are no words for it and yet you have to speak out,…
Special dinner in Domkerk yields 75,000 euros for the restoration of the Dom Tower
UTRECHT – At a special dinner last night in the Dom Church, 75,000 euros were raised for the restoration of the Dom Tower. About four hundred guests gathered in the…