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• European Medicines Agency is almost open for business in Amsterdam
  The new European Medicines Agency offices in Amsterdam were formally opened on Friday, almost two years to the day that...
• Cruyff Foundation in court to have biography withdrawn from sale
  The Johan Cruyff Foundation has gone to court to have a biography of the Dutch football legend withdrawn from sale....
• Eindhoven station arrestee is wanted in shooting investigation
  The man arrested by heavily-armed police on a train waiting in Eindhoven station on Thursday evening is wanted in connection...
• Australian drug user sentenced to 11 years for killing Dutch cyclist
  An Australian named as Michael Panayides  who killed  a 27-year-old Dutch woman in Melbourne in a hit-and-run accident has been...
• Stalker who murdered school girl faces 20 years in jail, psychiatric prison
  The man who murdered a 16-year-old girl in the bike sheds next to her school after stalking her for months...
• Today’s youngsters are more conservative than their parents, report says
  Dutch people in their 20s and 30s are more conservative than their elders, research by Tilburg University seems to suggest,...
• Amsterdam schools face ultimatum over parental contributions
  Amsterdam city council says it will stop giving extra subsidies to schools which ask parents for more than €225 a...
• Bijenkorf department store scraps Christmas lights show to cut costs
  The Bijenkorf department store group has sacked several dozen members of staff and scrapped the annual Christmas light show in...
• Thousands of families can expect compensation after tax office fraud probes
  The chairman of a committee investigating a heavy handed anti-fraud campaign by the tax office says thousands of families will...
• Weekend weather: grey days and chilly nights with rain ahead
  Friday will be overcast and grey but mainly dry and with daytime temperatures no higher than 6 Celsius, the KNMI...