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Prinsjesdag: Dutch politics and hats?

Where else in the world could you celebrate a new budget with a carriage ride, fancy horses and lots and lots of hats? On the third Tuesday in September, tens of thousands of visitors turn out in The Hague for the yearly presentation of the...

Change of rules for organ donation

The rules for donating organs are going to change. Currently, all residents of the Netherlands aged 18 or older are requested to decide about donating their organs after their death.  This means all people registered in the municipal records database. If they don’t make a...

A place to renew

As a graduate student, I moved house every year. Even though it was always within a 20-mile radius, packing up all my stuff, coordinating friends to help me lift heavy furniture, loading it and unpacking it all again was not only physically draining, but stressful....