Netherlands

Holland is to send 200 people on holiday to Greece for eight days as an experiment to see if tourism is feasible during the pandemic.

By Ola Goroveci Greece recently won the Netherlands' prestigious Reisgraag Travel Award for the best global destination to visit in 2020. Greece earned an overall review of 8.4 out of 10, which means it is the top country for the Dutch...

A 500-ml (one-half a quart) bottle  of Cretan extra virgin olive oil was sold recently for the extraordinary sum of €510 ($580), a price equivalent to €1,020 ($1,160) per liter. The pricey product was made from the ancient olive trees of the...

A 31-year-old Greek man is being held by Dutch authorities, suspected for killing his partner, a 47-year-old woman he was living with. According to Dutch media, the woman was found dead at her home late on Monday night. Later, a...

Poseidon was renowned for his mastery of the seven seas. Now man has built a "Parthenon Wall" that will both protect coastlines from the rising seas and create energy. Netherlands-based architecture firm Waterstudio led by Architect Koen Olthius has...

The popularity of Dutch universities is rising among Greek students as 2,500 of young Greeks who want to study abroad have chosen to do so in the Netherlands. Despite the economic crisis in Greece, there are currently 2,500 Greeks enrolled...

A Dutch journalist; who was reporting on Syrian refugees who had crossed into the country via Turkey, has been arrested in Greece. Sakir Khader; a reporter with current affairs show Brandpunt in the Netherlands, was detained on Monday morning at the...

Head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem commented on Tuesday in the Dutch Parliament that Greece will go bankrupt should the IMF decide not to participate in the third Greek program. Dutch newspaper, Financieele Dagblad, reported that Mr. Dijsselbloem expressed this...

The evaluation of the Greek plan will not be completed in time for the next Eurogroup scheduled in Brussels for February 20, said Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, as reported by Reuters. He noted that the participation of the International...

  Only one day after Eurogroup's Jeroen Dijsselbloem stated that the IMF's take on the Greek debt was "unnecessarily Pessimistic," the finance minister warned that without the Fund's participation in the Greek bailout, the Netherlands would also withdraw. He stated that...