A major report on the future of Dutch R&D has recommended setting up a new innovation agency, following the establishment of ...

Populist Dutch political leader Geert Wilders, of the anti-Muslim immigration Freedom Party in the Netherlands, cobbled together a right-wing coalition government on Wednesday, sending shock waves ...

The Netherlands is marking a century and a half since the end of the Dutch slave trade which transported Africans to the Americas. King Willem-Alexander used the ...

Dutch Defence Minister Gijs Tuinman signed a contract with Rheinmetall Air Defence for Skyranger 30 air-defence systems on 11 ...

Dutch gang leader Ridouan Taghi, once part of a cocaine "super cartel," has been handed life in prison for a string of murders. The violence may be over for now, but organized crime still looms large ...

The Dutch moved the sea to build their nation – and became the world’s tallest people in the process. Heading west out of Rotterdam I walked along red-brick pavements, past crooked townhouses and ...

Why do we call people in The Netherlands 'Dutch'? The word 'Dutch' means people or nation in old English (þéod) and was used to describe the Germanic people who lived in the modern-day countries of ...

The Netherlands' name reflects its low-lying topography, with more than a quarter of its total area under sea level. Now a constitutional monarchy, the country began its independent life as a republic ...