Author: Renee

Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and the Environment), together with the authorities involved and NGOs, yesterday signed an ambitious declaration on improving water quality in the Netherlands. Minister Schultz: ‘Dutch drinking water can effortlessly compete with bottled mineral water sold in supermarkets. This is actually a technological feat which we should be proud of. … Continue reading Minister Schultz signs new plan of attack for tackling water quality

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The Ministers in charge of space within the 22 ESA Member States and Canada gather every three years to set the Agency’s strategy and policies. During these ESA Council meetings at Ministerial Level, decisions are taken on the main direction for the coming years and on the additional budget for the future. Ministers agree to start … Continue reading Space Ministers meet to discuss Space 4.0

Amsterdam city council has published a plan to rid the city of gas-fired cooking and central heating by 2050, broadcaster NOS said on Thursday. Next year, the aim is to remove 10,000 housing corporation homes from the gas network, city alderman Abdeluheb Choho said. In addition, two new residential areas are already being built without … Continue reading Amsterdam homes to be gas free by 2050

During the Annual Conference of World Sailing in Barcelona, The Hague was chosen as the city to host the Ocean Sailing World Championships in 2018. This means The Hague will host the 1,300 best sailors in the world when they compete in short and long-distance sailing races along the coast of Scheveningen. The Hague, which … Continue reading World Sailing Championships coming to The Hague

The Netherlands wants to see closer collaboration between high-tech companies and civil society organisations to tackle food shortages in developing countries. Foreign trade and development minister Lilianne Ploumen expressed that hope today at the climate summit in Marrakech. In total the minister is making an extra 20 million euros available for the Geodata for Agriculture … Continue reading Netherlands to use satellites and technology to combat hunger in developing countries

Tourists are giving The Hague’s economy a big boost. Over the last 5 years, the number of overnight stays increased 26%. Currently some € 2 billion per year is being spent on leisure and recreation, according to the progress report up to 2015 which The Hague Municipal Executive sent to the Municipal Council on 9 … Continue reading Foreign tourists driving Hague economy

ABN Amro is writing to some 15,000 clients who live outside Europe to tell them to close down their accounts, the Financieele Dagblad said on Friday. The group includes Dutch pensioners and is spread across 100 countries. In total, they make up some 10% of ABN Amro’s overseas clients. Spokesman Robin de Jongh told the … Continue reading ABN Amro to close the accounts of 15,000 people who live outside Europe

The Mauritshuis and Madpixel show Seventeenth Century Masterpieces as Never Before A brand new app, Second Canvas Mauritshuis, renders Vermeers Girl with the Pearl Earring and ‘The Garden of Eden’ by Brueghel and Bosch to zoom in on the brushstrokes of the paintings in Gigapixel. This is the first app in the world to offer Gigapixel integrated infrared images, … Continue reading New Mauritshuis App Reveals Secrets of Girl with a Pearl Earring

Jamie Oliver restaurant chain "Jaimie's Italian" has announced on Twitter they will open a restaurant in The Hague in the Spring of 2017. The first restaurant opened in Oxford in 2008 and there are now more than 40 Jamie's Italian restaurants worldwide. The Rotterdam restaurant in the iconic Markthal is currently the only Jamie's Italian restaurant … Continue reading Jamie Oliver Italian restaurant to open in The Hague